Ohio sheriff says he won’t enforce mask mandate: Overnight News Links – cleveland.com
Butler County sheriff: ‘I am not the mask police’ (WJW Channel 8)
Gov. Mike DeWine orders that masks be worn in 7 counties hit the hardest by coronavirus (cleveland.com)
Most of Ohio’s new coronavirus cases are in just 3 counties – Cuyahoga, Franklin, Hamilton (cleveland.com)
Read Ohio’s new coronavirus order indefinitely extending the state’s mass-gathering ban, health rules for businesses (cleveland.com)
Cuyahoga County Council signs off on Hilton Downtown Cleveland bailout (cleveland.com)
The biggest share of Ohio’s newly reported coronavirus cases involve people in their 20s. This chart shows the number of cases in each age group with an onset of symptoms in the last three weeks.Rich Exner, cleveland.com
Ohio coronavirus cases up 948 as surge continues: Tuesday update (cleveland.com)
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine expects to spend state’s entire $2.7 billion rainy-day fund during coronavirus crisis (cleveland.com)
More than half of Ohio’s recent coronavirus cases are among people younger than 40 (cleveland.com)
Ohio allowing competitive games, tournaments in all sports through July 15 under guidelines (cleveland.com)
Some Ohio prisons will allow visitors for the first time in months (cleveland.com)
See which Ohio businesses received coronavirus-relief loans under PPP: searchable database (cleveland.com)
Ohio Democratic Party among recipients of PPP loans (cleveland.com)
Ohio Department of Health says to dispose of dangerous brands of hand sanitizer (cleveland.com)
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos rejects part-time reopening for schools amid COVID-19 pandemic (Associated Press)
Protective gear for medical workers begins to run low again (Associated Press)
Man stabbed to death in Cleveland’s Clark-Fulton neighborhood, police say (cleveland.com)
Man riding ATV fatally shot in Akron (cleveland.com)
Cleveland police received nearly 700 complaints for fireworks on Fourth of July weekend, four times 2019 (cleveland.com)
Elyria man arrested after police standoff (Lorain Morning Journal)
Cleveland Police Chief Calvin Williams said he did not lie when he told cleveland.com’s editorial board that protestors breached the Justice Center during the May 30 demonstration in downtown. The Plain Dealer
‘I don’t lie:’ Cleveland police chief responds to his claim that rioters breached Justice Center at May 30 protest (cleveland.com)
Video from Cleveland’s George Floyd protest contains no mention of protesters throwing rocks before police used pepper spray, tear gas on crowd (cleveland.com)
For second time in 4 years, experts tell Cleveland police they need more detectives to solve city’s increasing number of homicides (cleveland.com)
Cleveland schools voters could see tax increase on November ballot (cleveland.com)
49 new coronavirus cases confirmed in Cleveland, pushing case total to more than 3,200 (cleveland.com)
Longtime Cuyahoga County Jail officer who died after contracting coronavirus was loving father, grandfather, pastor (cleveland.com)
Cuyahoga County declares racism a public health crisis (cleveland.com)
Cuyahoga County awards $3.5M loan to GOJO, maker of Purell, for Maple Heights plant (cleveland.com)
Cuyahoga County to build PPE storage facility (cleveland.com)
MetroHealth, South Pointe are among best Ohio hospitals in inclusivity, community health (cleveland.com)
Dining halls, sorority and fraternity events will be available when Kent State’s campus reopens (cleveland.com)
Beachwood Mayor Horwitz remains in hospital but is ‘doing better’ following surgery (cleveland.com)
Shaker Heights schools hires first director of diversity, equity and inclusion (cleveland.com)
East Cleveland boy found dead in hotel pool after going missing at Strongsville Holiday Inn, police say (cleveland.com)
Lakewood Summer Meltdown 2020 event canceled (cleveland.com)
Strongsville school board chooses CPA, business owner, college instructor for vacant board seat (cleveland.com)
Summit County opioid settlement money to fund programs at Cleveland Clinic Akron General, Summa Health to support pregnant women impacted by substance abuse (cleveland.com)
Health officials raise social distancing concerns at Upper Deck in New Franklin (WEWS Channel 5)
Stow-Munroe Falls City Schools athlete tests positive for COVID-19 (WOIO Channel 19)
Ohio’s reopened casinos, racinos begin raking in money again, but now nearly $500 million behind 2019 (cleveland.com)
Toledo Democratic Rep. Marcy Kaptur tries to block Trump administration from conducting nuclear tests (cleveland.com)
Ex-Cleveland mayor and congressman Dennis Kucinich still riffs on the ‘he was right’ theme (cleveland.com)
U.S. Coast Guard saved 45 lives in Great Lakes over July 4 weekend (cleveland.com)
Ohio State departing president Michael Drake next president of University of California system (cleveland.com)