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The Wake Up - June 10, 2021 Lordstown Motors, once hailed by Donald Trump as the future for Youngstown manufacturing, could close within a year

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The Wake Up - June 9, 2021 Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost sues to declare Google a utility

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The Wake Up - June 8 , 2021 Sen. Rob Portman visits Eastern Europe and tells President Joe Biden to stand up to Vladimir Putin

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The Wake Up - June 7, 2021 Ohio finally hits Gov. Mike DeWine's benchmark in the battle with the coronavirus

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The Wake Up - June 4, 2021 The Cleveland Indians have nearly 1,200 candidates for a new team name

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The Wake Up - June 3, 2021 The Ohio Senate wants to help you get your income taxes back from cities where you did not work

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The Wake Up - June 2, 2021 -- Ohio Senate Republicans put billions of stimulus dollars at risk in budget showdown with President Joe Biden

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The Wake Up - June 1, 2021 Bernie Kosar supports a storied mobster from the Danny Greene days, who says his good deeds should free him from prison

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The Wake Up - May 28, 2021 Ohio's first Vax-a-Million winner was on way to see a used car when she learned she struck it rich

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The Wake Up - May 27, 2021 Will Bob Cupp keep protecting Larry Householder even with two bills to boot him from the Ohio House?

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The Wake Up - May 26, 2021 Congressman Jim Jordan has penned a memoir of his Donald Trump years

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The Wake Up - May 25, 2021 Is payday coming, finally, for Ohio college athletes?

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The Wake Up - May 24, 2021 Gov. Mike DeWine's rejection of extra $300 unemployment payments could cost Ohio economy $1 billion

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The Wake Up - May 21, 2021 Ohio would reach coronavirus herd immunity in November, two months after Michigan. What gives?

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The Wake Up - May 19, 2021 Congressman Jim Jordan blames violence aimed at Asian Americans on Democrat-controlled cities that he says defunded police

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The Wake Up - May 18, 2021 A federal judge says FirstEnergy shareholders have a right to sue the utility over the big bribery scheme.

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The Wake Up - May 17, 2021 The Cleveland Browns build a new vision of public access to and development of the city's lakefront

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The Wake Up - May 14, 2021 Gov. Mike DeWine strips away $300 a week from the unemployed even though it costs Ohio nothing.

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The Wake Up - May 13, 2021 Gov. Mike DeWine is lifting Ohio's coronavirus restrictions on June 2

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The Wake Up - May 12, 2021 A $2 billion plan to modernize Cleveland's airport, but where's the $2 billion?

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The Wake Up - May 11, 2021 A stunner: Ohio turns down vaccine shipments because demand has plummeted.

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The Wake Up May 10, 2021 -- Ohio Republicans follow through and censure Rep. Anthony for voting his conscience on Trump's impeachment.

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The Wake Up - May 7, 2021 Sports betting is finally coming to Ohio, it appears.

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The Wake Up - May 6, 2021 Dennis Kucinich is number one, and Basheer Jones is number two in new Cleveland mayoral poll

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The Wake Up - May 5, 2021 Does Cuyahoga County bear any blame for the shooting death of a 6-year-old boy?

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The Wake Up - May 4, 2021 Another Northeast Ohioan is charged in the January 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol

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The Wake Up - May 3, 2021 The chorus of leaders demanding justice for Tamir Rice gets louder. Is Joe Biden listening?

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The Wake Up - April 30, 2021 The Browns, the state and Harvard University aim to cut chronic Ohio school absenteeism in half

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The Wake Up - April 29, 2021 Come again? A Franklin County judge says a city can tax you even if you don't life or work there?

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The Wake Up - April 28, 2021 The Ohio Supreme Court will consider desperate pleas by Northeast Ohio cities to remain speed traps

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The Wake Up - April 27, 2021 Ohio is losing a seat in Congress, and it will likely be a Republican

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The Wake Up - April 26, 2021 Why has demand for the coronavirus vaccines suddenly plummeted in Ohio?

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The Wake Up - April 23, 2021 Is an asphalt plant the opportunity we had in mind with the costly Opportunity Corridor?

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The Wake Up - April 22, 2021 Metroparks leaders have a bold vision for transforming part of the Cleveland lakefront

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The Wake Up - April 21, 2021 Guilty verdicts for Derek Chauvin reduced the chance of violence, but Cleveland leader said they were ready for protests

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The Wake Up - April 20, 2021 Nan Whaley is running for Ohio governor, but Steve Stivers is not running for the U.S. Senate

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The Wake Up - April 19, 2021 Senate candidates Jane Timken and Josh Mandel misled everyone about their political fundraising

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The Wake Up - April 16, 2 Health officials await autopsy on Ohio college student who died after getting the Johnson & Johnson vaccine

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The Wake Up - April 15, 2021 Public records reveal the details that Rocky Rivers school officials concealed on the teacher scandal

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The Wake Up - April 14, 2021 Ohio lawmakers work to stop transgender girls from playing girls sports

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The Wake Up - April 13, 2021 Ohio's roads and bridges are in bad shape, and that could mean a cash bonanza

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This Week in the CLE April 12, 2021 Should we be suspicious of the Legislature's motives as it rewrites Ohio's election laws?

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The Wake Up - April 12, 2021 Ohio Statehouse Republicans are about to change the state's election laws.

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The Wake Up - April 9, 2021 Cleveland gets sued for collecting income taxes from a doctor working in Philadelphia during the pandemic

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The Wake Up - April 8, 2021 Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur joins a lawsuit against Donald Trump for sparking the Capitol riot

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The Wake Up - April 7 Dr. Amy Acton dashes Democratic hopes - she will not run for the U.S. Senate.

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The Wake Up - April 6, 2021 - As fans take their seats for the Indians home opener, Mike DeWine throws a curveball and changes the ballpark capacity

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The Wake Up - April 5, 2021 -- The director of University Hospitals' cryogenic lab tells a very different story about the disaster that harmed 4,000 embryos and eggs.

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The Wake Up - April 2, 2021 A big expansion of passenger train routes in Ohio gets more likely with Joe Biden's infrastructure proposal

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The Wake Up - April 1, 2021 Cleveland Indians ban headdresses and Native American face painting in the ballpark

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The Wake Up - March 31, 2021 IBM and the Cleveland Clinic give Cleveland a quantum leap in the battle for tech supremacy

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The Wake Up - March 30, 2021 Should Ohio Lt. Gov Jon Husted stop using the phrase "Wuhan virus?"

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The Wake Up - March 29, 2021 Only 34 of Ohio's 400,000-plus coronavirus cases since mid-December were people who'd been vaccinated

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The Wake Up - March 26, 2021 Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine finally decides to shift vaccines around the state based on demand, helping cities while reducing rural surpluses.

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The Wake Up - March 25, 2021 Ohio legislators override Gov. Mike DeWine and cripple his ability to issue health orders

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The Wake Up - March 24, 2021 -- The cost of that mass vaccination clinic at the Wolstein Center? More than $ 8 million

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The Wake Up - March 23, 2021 The NFL says the Cleveland draft will be a big and safe party but does not say how many can attend

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The Wake Up - March 22, 2021 During the pandemic, a lot of people moved to Cleveland to do their remote work

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The Wake Up - March 19, 2021 When will the NFL and Northeast Ohio civic leaders finally provide some details about the draft?

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The Wake Up - March 18, 2021 A guy from Lorain is charged with beating a Capitol Police officer in the Jan. 6 insurrection

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The Wake Up - March 17, 2021 By months end, every Ohioan 16 or over will be eligible for coronavirus vaccinations

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The Wake Up - March 16, 2021 The Census Bureau says there's no way it can make Ohio's deadline for redrawing political maps

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The Wake Up - March 15, 2021 -- How Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine will get minority communities to his mass vaccination center

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The Wake Up - March 12, 2021 Timothy Loehman, who shot and killed 12-year-old Tamir Rice, will not get his Cleveland Police job back

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The Wake Up - March 11, 2021 -- Did FirstEnergy supporter Bill Seitz really say he sees no House corruption in the corrupt House Bill 6?

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The Wake Up - March 10, 2021 Nine Cleveland police officers face discipline in a chase that killed a 13-year-old girl

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The Wake Up - March 9, 2021 -- Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine drops the eligibility age for COVID-19 vaccines to 50

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The Wake Up - March 8, 2021 Larry Householder gets hit with more charges of election finance shenanigans

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The Wake Up - March 5, 2020 A $4.3 million FirstEnergy payment to Ohio's former utilities chief gets stinkier by the day

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The Wake Up - March 4, 2021 Cuyahoga County Executive Armond Budish digs in on his claim to full power over the county sheriff

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The Wake Up - March 3, 2021 Ohio will greatly slow coronavirus death reporting to avoid botching the numbers again

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The Wake Up - March 2, 2021 - Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine opens the floodgates for coronavirus vaccines

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The Wake Up - March 1, 2021 Here's why your air travel ticket prices are going up in Cleveland

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The Wake Up - Feb. 26, 2021 Ohio's coronavirus vaccine supply will more than double starting next week

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The Wake Up - Feb. 25, 2021 -- Ohio spends $3.6 million on its own vaccine sign-up system because the federal version stinks

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The Wake Up - Feb. 24, 2021 Cleveland City Councilman Ken Johnson finally gets indicted for abusing his expense account

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The Wake Up - February 23, 2021 -- Ohio will let a lot of fans attend Indians, Reds and minor league baseball games this year

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The Wake Up - Feb. 22, 2021 The homes of the Browns, Indians and Cavs could be coronavirus vaccination centers

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The Wake Up - Feb. 19, 2021 Ohio seems poised to abolish the death penalty

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The Wake Up - Feb. 18, 2021 A $4 million FirstEnergy payment to Ohio's now-former Public Utilities Commission chief gets more suspicious

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The Wake Up - Feb. 17, 2021 With people steamed about Ohio's scattershot vaccination program, Mike DeWine plans a central registry

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The Wake Up - Feb. 16, 2021 Records cast doubts on Cleveland State University's claim no applicants for a $140,000 job were qualified

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The Wake Up - Feb. 15, 2020 Rob Portman goes both ways, voting Donald Trump not guilty of sparking the Jan. 6 insurrection while saying that Trump actually did

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The Wake Up - Feb. 12, 2021 -- Unemployment scammers who have been hitting Ohio hard went into overdrive last week

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The Wake Up - Feb. 11, 2021 A bunch of elected officials from Larry Householder's neighborhood want him booted from the Ohio House

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The Wake Up - Jan. 10, 2021 The guy who brought down Larry Householder is asked to resign

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The Wake Up - Feb. 9, 2021 -- Cuyahoga County appears to have a thoughtful, organized, efficient plan to vaccinate teachers

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The Wake Up - Feb. 8, 2021 -- A non-profit will plead guilty to funneling $61 million in FirstEnergy bribery money, so what's that say for FirstEnergy?

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The Wake Up -Feb. 5, 2021 Dr. Amy Acton is looking more and more like a candidate for the U.S. Senate

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The Wake Up - Feb. 4, 2021 -- Cleveland City Council's investigation of FirstEnergy gets serious -- with a subpoena

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The Wake Up - Feb. 3, 2021 -- People in five Northeast Ohio nursing homes have to be re-vaccinated because of a screw-up

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The Wake Up - Feb. 2, 2021 Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine wants to spend a billion dollars hauling the state out of the pandemic

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The Wake Up - Feb. 1. 2021-- Not just a catchphrase. The philosophy behind Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson's "It is what it is"

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The Wake Up - January 29, 2021 - Can megaphone sound waves be the means of felony assault? Cuyahoga County prosecutor says yes

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The Wake Up - Jan. 28, 2021 Dr. Amy Acton might be in, but Jon Husted is definitely out of the U.S. Senate Race in Ohio

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The Wake Up - Jan. 27, 2021 -- Dr. Amy Acton might run for the Rob Portman seat in the U.S. Senate

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The Wake Up - January 26, 2021 Sen. Rob Portman shocks Ohio by announcing he won't seek re-election

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The Wake Up - Jan. 25, 2021 New public records reveal much about Cuyahoga County Executive Armond Budish's leadership style

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The Wake Up - Jan. 22, 2021 More than half of Ohio's pandemic unemployment claims might involve fraud

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The Wake Up - Jan. 21, 2021 An Ohio pharmacy's mistake lets hundreds of coronavirus vaccines go bad