Residents of North Baltimore should expect an increase in taxes next year.  The Village plans to increase the street lighting tax assessment to bring in approximately $52,000.  Residents will be paying about $16 more on a home value of $100,000.  Costs to operate the lights have gone up since the current rate was set about 10 years ago.

Dozens of protesters arrested after the acquittal of a white patrolman charged in the deaths of two unarmed black motorists have been arraigned in court in Cleveland.  Fifty-eight people appeared on Monday morning to be arraigned on misdemeanor charges.  Most pleaded no contest to reduced charges and were sentenced to time served.  Cleveland police arrested 71 people on Saturday night after a day of mostly peaceful protests turned more aggressive.

Fire officials are crediting Joseph and Samuel Wagner of Biglick Township in Hancock County for rescuing their neighbors from a blaze that heavily damaged a home.  Officials say the brothers were at a campfire on their property just north of Hancock County Road 7 and noticed a glow.  The brothers then drove to the scene to find the home rented by Warren Lynch on fire.  The Wagner’s woke the family who were able to escape uninjured.  The fire remains under investigation...

Charter Communications Inc. has confirmed a deal to buy Time Warner Cable for about $55.1 billion.  The merger will create a cable and internet superpower, giving the company 23 million subscribers.  Comcast attempted to buy Time Warner for more than $45 billion, but the deal fizzled out in April when federal regulators said in no uncertain terms they were against the merger of the country's two largest cable companies.

Members of dozens of Cleveland-area churches plan to march and rally in downtown Cleveland this morning to protest this weekend's acquittal of a police officer in the 2012 deaths of two unarmed motorists.  A judge Saturday found Michael Brelo not guilty of voluntary manslaughter.  The Plain Dealer reports organizers have notified police of their plans.

A state Senate panel is slated to vote today on a proposal pushing back Ohio's presidential primary next year by one week, to March 15.  Republican officials have been pressing for the delay to keep the state party from violating national party rules on

primary scheduling.  It has already cleared the House.