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Today is looking pretty ideal for March in Northeast Ohio, with highs in the mid-60s and mostly sunny skies. It will be clear overnight and temps will be in the mid-40s. Read more.

Stopped clocks? The U.S. Senate on Tuesday unanimously agreed to make daylight saving time permanent in 2023, ending a yearly ritual that requires people to set their clocks ahead by an hour in March and set them back in November, Sabrina Eaton reports. The bill still needs to get approval in the U.S. House of Representatives and must be signed by President Joe Biden. If the bill were to become law, daylight saving time would not become permanent until November 2023 because airlines and other industries already have built out their schedules based on the existing timetables.

Swatting: Ohio lawmakers have proposed imposing tougher penalties for people found to have committed the act of “swatting,” or intentionally prompting a potentially dangerous police response by falsely reporting a violent threat as a prank. Andrew Tobias reports Senate Bill 292 would make swatting a third-degree felony, or a first-degree felony if someone is seriously hurt as a result of the call. It also would allow emergency response agencies to bill someone for the costs of responding to the false call.

A federal judge Monday tossed out two bribery-related charges against former Cuyahoga County Commissioner Jimmy Dimora, a move that will bring him out of prison to be sentenced again in June. We’re talking about whether Dimora has served enough time on Today in Ohio, cleveland.com’s daily half-hour news podcast.

Mask lawsuit: U.S. Rep. Warren Davidson of Miami County has joined more than a dozen of his Republican congressional colleagues in a lawsuit seeking to end the CDC requirement that people wear face masks during commercial air travel. Sabrina Eaton reports the lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court Western District of Kentucky by 17 Republicans says the Congress members “object to wearing a mask and would not wear a mask if the mask mandate did not exist,” and contends the mask mandate is beyond the CDC’s statutory authority.

Improper oversight: A report from GOP investigators on the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs found improper oversight of $46 million in anti-human trafficking money the U.S. government gave an organization called the Global Fund to End Modern Slavery. Sabrina Eaton reports the document issued by the committee’s top Republican, U.S. Sen. Rob Portman, found the State Department’s Trafficking in Persons office didn’t adequately scrutinize the fund’s disbursement of the money to subcontractors, resulting in wasted tax dollars.

Ryan donations: Although he hasn’t yet won his party’s nomination, Rep. Tim Ryan, the frontrunner to win the Democratic nomination for an Ohio U.S. Senate seat, is looking past the May primary as he pledges to help other state Democrats in their bids to win their races in November. Ryan’s campaign says the Niles Democrat will give $3 million to a coordinated campaign Ryan launched with the Ohio Democratic Party, reports Andrew Tobias.

Elections delays: Cuyahoga County Board of Elections staff are working nights and weekends to get local ballots in order ahead of the May 3 primary, but officials still aren’t confident they’ll be able to pull it off while redistricting maps remain uncertain. Kaitlin Durbin reports the office says it could send ballots to print by April 7, but that is two days after absentee voting is scheduled to begin and after the state’s new deadline to mail ballots to military and overseas voters.

Lake intersections: Law-enforcement agencies in Lake County say the intersections named on the most dangerous list produce some of the highest volumes of traffic. Kaylee Remington reports the list includes intersections in Mentor, Willoughby, Wickliffe and Concord Township.

Farm vs. freeway: Maple Crest is a registered heritage farm, the last one in Cuyahoga County — meaning that the same family has owned it for at least 100 years. However, the farm – whittled from140 acres to 20 over the decades – now has an uncertain future due to encroaching commercial and residential expansion, including the proposed Valor Acres mixed-use development to the east.

Sticker art: During the pandemic, University Hospitals handed out stickers to visitors and staff to show they had cleared COVID-19 screening before entering the hospital. Rather than go to waste, they compiled the stickers in artwork. Now, 10 of the posters are being raffled off and three are being sold through a silent auction, Peter Krouse reports.

ROOST: ROOST Cleveland, which consists of 62 extended-stay hotel units in the historic May Co. building off Public Square, is now open for booking. Eric Heisig reports Bedrock, Cavs owner Dan Gilbert’s Detroit-based real estate company, partnered with Method Co. to operate the hotel portion of the Euclid Avenue building.

Gas prices: As the global oil market responds to Russia’s war against Ukraine, Ohio’s average gas price is still more than $4 per gallon. Much of Northeast Ohio is still paying at least $4.055, up from $3.985 last week, reports Zachary Smith.

Bribery: A sales representative was sentenced to 18 months in prison Tuesday for bribing a former official at the Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center. U.S. District Judge Donald Nugent ordered Robert Vitale of South Euclid to pay $193,042 in restitution, reports John Caniglia.

I-77 murder: A Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court judge imposed a life sentence on a man convicted of killing his girlfriend, dumping her body on Interstate 77 and then calling her family members to tell them to look for her body last March. Cory Shaffer reports more than a dozen members of a Darnesha Johnson’s family showed up to watch Judge Joan Synenberg sentence Deandra Chisolm, who was convicted earlier this month of murder and gross abuse of a corpse in the 26-year-old mother’s death.

Cocaine bust: Authorities dismantled a drug pipeline that poured more than 1,100 pounds of cocaine into Cleveland and sent $13 million in proceeds back to Mexico in a span of a few years, John Caniglia reports. The charges indicate that a city of Cleveland worker, Christopher Ficklin, helped engineer the ring.

Rock & Roll: When the artists being nominated and inducted are questioning their own “rock ‘n’ roll” credentials, does the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame have a branding problem? Troy Smith reports that Dolly Parton bowing out of her nomination is not the first time the museum has been questioned for its inclusivity. But it’s not as simple as it may seem.

JazzFest: A selection of locally and internationally famous jazz, soul and funk musicians will arrive at Playhouse Square for the 43rd annual Tri-C JazzFest this summer, set to take place June 23-25, Anne Nickoloff reports.

Welcome to the Farm: When visitors arrive to country star Chase Rice’s 150-acre home and ranch in Nashville, one of the first things he says to them is “Welcome to the farm.” Anne Nickoloff reports the welcome became an instant choice of name for Rice’s new country music venue and bar, located at 1054 Old River Road in Cleveland’s East Bank of the Flats.

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