CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) – Cities across Northeast Ohio have opened warming centers and overnight shelters for those in need of escaping the cold snap.

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WARMING CENTERSCleveland

Cleveland city officials will have warming centers open through Tuesday for residents needing shelter.

• Michael Zone Recreation Center, 6301 Lorain Ave.
• Lonnie Burten Recreation Center, 2511 E. 46th St.
• Collinwood Recreation Center, 16300 Lakeshore Blvd.
• Zelma George Recreation Center, 3155 MLK Blvd.

All four shelters will be open from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. on Monday and from 11:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. on Tuesday and Wednesday.

Anyone who needs overnight shelter should call 211.

Akron

Mayor Shammas Malik extended the hours at Summit Lake Community Center, located at 380 W Crosier St.

The community center will be open from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. through Wednesday.

The Emergency Overnight Shelter located at 111 East Voris St. will also be open through Wednesday.

Alliance

The Rodman Library at 215 E. Broadway St. in Alliance is open from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Wednesday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Thursday and Friday, and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday.

The Salvation Army at 57 W. Main St. in Alliance is open from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on weekdays.

The Commons at 405 S. Linden Ave in Alliance is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on weekdays.

The Clothed in Righteousness at 55 E. Main St. in Alliance is open from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday. It is also open from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Monday and Thursday.

Avon Lake

The Anchor Recreation Facility, at 33483 Lake Road, will be open Monday and Tuesday from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. as a temporary warming center.

Canton

The Crossroads United Methodist at 120 Cleveland Ave. in Canton is open form 8 p.m. to 8 a.m. as needed.

Edward “Peel” Coleman Community Center is open at 1400 Sherrick Road SE from 8 p.m. to 8 a.m. Monday through Wednesday.

The Refuge of Hope at 715 Second St. is open from 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday and 8:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. on Saturday.

Creston

The Creston Branch of the Wayne County Public Library at 116 S. Main St. will serve as a warming center through Jan. 23.

The library is open from 10 a.m. – 8 p.m. Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday; and from 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. on Wednesday.

Cuyahoga Falls

Mayor Don Waters activated the Natatorium as a warming center on Monday through the extreme temperatures.

Check-in for the warming center is at the Cuyahoga Falls Police Department at 2310 2nd Street and use the entrance near the Oakwood Drive intersection.

The Amenities available will be restrooms, water and a warm, safe area. There will not be food, cots or showers.

Dalton

The Dalton Branch of the Wayne County Public Library at 127 S. Church St. will serve as a warming center through Jan. 23.

The library is open from 10 a.m. – 8 p.m. Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday; and from 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. on Wednesday.

Doylestown

The Doylestown Branch of the Wayne County Public Library at 169 N. Portage St. will serve as a warming center through Jan. 23.

The library is open from 10 a.m. – 8 p.m. Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday; and from 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. on Wednesday.

Elyria

The city will open an emergency warming center at 101 South Park Dr. from Monday to Wednesday.

The warming center will be open at 7 a.m. on Monday.

Call 211 for warming shelter locations and information.

Jefferson

The Jefferson Rec Center will be open from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.

Kent

The Shepherd’s House of Portage County, 2645 State Route 58, in Ravenna, is open for a day and night shelter through Wed., Jan. 22.

Lakewood

Lakewood’s Department of Human Service activated Cove Community Center as a warming center.

The center will be open Jan. 21 and 22. from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Lorain

The warming centers will open at 6 p.m. on Sunday through 11 a.m. on Monday at Lorain High School.

If school is closed on Tuesday, the warming center will remain open until 11 a.m.

A warming center at Faith Ministries Church will be open from Monday at 11 a.m. through Thursday at 11 a.m.

A release from Lorain County said anyone is welcome at the shelters.

Orville

The Orville Public Library at 230 N. Main St. will serve as a warming center through Jan. 23.

The library is open from 10 a.m. – 8 p.m. Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday; and from 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. on Wednesday.

Ravenna

Ravenna Police posted to Facebook that Shepard’s House of Portage County will be a night and daytime shelter from Sunday to Wednesday.

People can get a hot meal, shower and a load of laundry.

“When the temperature falls below 20 degrees, we open our warming center at which time individuals who are not registered with back ground checks, may come in. In the event the temperatures during the day fall below 20 degrees, then the warming center is open during the day,” the post read.

You can ride for free to the shelter with PARTA.

Richmond Heights

The Richmond Heights Community Center at 27285 Highland Rd. is serving as a warming center for anyone in need of somewhere warm, especially those affected by the Chardon/Washington power outage.

Rittman

The Rittman Branch of the Wayne County Public Library at 75 N. Main St. will serve as a warming center through Jan. 23.

The library is open from 10 a.m. – 8 p.m. Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday; and from 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. on Wednesday.

The Rittman Rec Center at 200 Saurer St. is also open as a warming center through Jan. 23.

The rec center is open from 5:30 a.m. – 9 p.m. Monday through Thursday.

Shreve

The Shreve Branch of the Wayne County Public Library at 189 W. McConkey St. will serve as a warming center through Jan. 23.

The library is open from 10 a.m. – 8 p.m. Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday; and from 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. on Wednesday.

West Salem

The West Salem Branch of the Wayne County Public Library at 99 East Buckeye St. will serve as a warming center through Jan. 23.

The library is open 1-7 p.m. on Monday and Thursday; 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. on Tuesday; and 1-5 p.m. on Wednesday.

St. Stephen’s Hackman Hall at 44 Britton St. is also open through Jan. 23.

The hall is open from 1-4 p.m. on Monday; and 1-5 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday.

Wooster

The Main Branch of the Wayne County Public Library at 220 West Liberty St. is open will serve as a warming center through Jan. 23.

The library is open from 9 a.m. – 8:30 p.m. Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday; and 9 a.m. – 6 p.m. on Wednesday.

OneEighty Oasis Recovery Club at 104 Spink St. will serve as a warming center through Jan. 23 for adults only, and additional restrictions may apply.

The club is open from 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. Monday and Tuesday, and 3-9 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday.

Salvation Army at 437 S. Market St. will serve as a warming center this week.

Salvation Army is open 10 a.m. – 6:30 p.m. Monday-Friday, and hot meals are provided at noon and 5:30 p.m.

PARKING BANS

Drivers may face dangerous conditions during their travels in Northeast Ohio.

Several local officials have issued snow parking bans. Here’s a list of active parking bans and closures in our area. The list will be updated.

• Mentor
• Newburgh Heights
• Painesville
• Shaker Heights

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A lot of former NBA players have opinions on how current players play. It’s a generational thing that happens every time a generation of guys retires.

Most of those guys think that the younger guys are overpaid for the number of games that they play. A lot of the older guys who played in the NBA talk about how often they were out there on the court.

Channing Frye is one of those former NBA veterans. He played 15 seasons in the league for six different teams.

Frye was one of those players who was able to make himself valuable everywhere he went. He was never considered a star player, though.

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As a former NBA player, Frye watches a lot of current NBA because he likes watching the league. He was recently watching the Portland Trail Blazers and had some takes about a certain player on the team.

While Frye never actually names the player on the team, fans were quickly able to figure out who he was talking about in his social media post. Beware, it is NSFW.

It didn’t take long for NBA fans to speculate that he was talking about Deandre Ayton, the starting center for the Trail Blazers. He is the guy who matches this description.

Ayton is putting up career-low numbers in points, rebounds, and assists. With the Blazers not contending for a playoff spot, he is clearly not very engaged in the season right now.

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Frye was furious about his effort in this game. He wants the Trail Blazers to make sure that they don’t pay anymore money for him moving forward.

Ayton is a hard guy to move. He likely can’t be moved until the offseason, when his contract becomes an expiring deal.

He doesn’t have much value right now because of how poorly he’s playing. The Blazers pretty much have no choice but to keep playing him and hope he starts playing better basketball.

Ayton is averaging 13.5 points, 9.9 rebounds, and 1.4 assists so far this season.

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Donald Trump takes the presidential oath of office on Monday, and in Ohio scores of men and women who participated in the Jan. 6, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol are watching closely to see if he makes good on the pardons he promised on the campaign trail.

When he visited Ohio last March, Trump opened his rally speech with a video of Jan. 6 defendants singing The Star-Spangled Banner from behind bars. “You see the spirit from the hostages,” Trump told the crowd, “And that’s what they are is hostages.” He promised that he’d be working on that soon — on the “first day we get into office.”

A few months later during a CNN town hall, he clarified “I am inclined to pardon many of them. I can’t say for every single one because a couple of them, probably, they got out of control.”

Still, it seems many of Trump’s die-hard supporters assumed there was some kind of inclination toward pardoning all Jan. 6 participants. Vice President-elect J.D. Vance was met with pushback after indicating only non-violent defendants should get pardons.

“Look, if you protested peacefully on January the sixth, and you’ve had Merrick Garland’s Department of Justice treat you like a gang member, you should be pardoned,” Vance said on Fox News Sunday. “If you committed violence on that day, obviously you shouldn’t be pardoned.”

“There’s a little bit of a gray area there,” he added, “but we’re very much committed to seeing the equal administration of law. And there are a lot of people, we think, in the wake of January the sixth, who were prosecuted unfairly. We need to rectify that.”

Even with those caveats, Vance’s suggestion of a dividing line among cases earned scorn among far-right figures like Steve Bannon.

“Pardon them all,” he wrote on the social media site Gettr. “Every last one.”

Where the prosecutions stand

In an update published on the fourth anniversary of the riot, the U.S. Department of Justice tallied up 1,583 arrests and more than 1,000 guilty pleas. The majority of cases have been fully adjudicated, and 667 people have been sentenced to time behind bars with another 145 sentenced to home detention.

The range of their offenses is vast. The agency notes every defendant has been charged with trespass, but more than 600 were charged with “assaulting, resisting or impeding” law enforcement, 174 of whom used a “dangerous or deadly” weapon. In addition to using makeshift weapons like police riot shields or fencing, the rioters brought firearms, tasers, pepper spray and knives into the Capitol — one woman even brought a sword.

Federal prosecutors’ conviction rate in the Capitol siege cases has been very high, but there have been a few acquittals along the way. They were dealt a more significant setback by the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Fischer v. United States. That case determined federal officials couldn’t apply a statute related to obstructing an official proceeding as broadly as they had been.

As a result, justice officials went back through 259 cases, but in each one of them, the defendant faced additional charges outside the ones addressed by the Fischer case. Six individuals have seen their sentences reduced because of the case.

An Ohio perspective

According to federal prosecutors, Alexander Sheppard of Powell, Ohio participated in the riot at the U.S. Capitol, “joined others in overrunning multiple police lines,” “videotaped fleeing members of Congress and staff, and looked on as other rioters violently punched out the windows of the doors” outside the U.S. House chamber. In its sentencing recommendation the DOJ asked for 37 months in prison followed by 36 months of supervised release and $2,000 in restitution.

“The government’s recommendation in this case reflects its substantial concern that Sheppard’s actions on that day may not be his last,” prosecutors argued, citing ongoing defiant and threatening posts on social media.

In September 2023, he was sentenced to 19 months, and later posted “It is my great honor to be held hostage as a political prisoner in these United States of America.” In an accompanying photo he’s holding two thumbs up outside a prison, wearing a shirt that reads “Let’s go Brandon.”

He got a reprieve when the U.S. Supreme Court took up the Fischer case. Sheppard’s attorney argued he should be released early because he might serve more time than necessary if the Fischer case went his way. The judge agreed, and he was released last May.

In an interview this week, Sheppard remained defiant and argued Trump’s “got to pardon everyone.”

“Whether we were charged with violence or not, every single one of us was denied due process,” he insisted, “because they forced us to have the trial in Washington, DC, where they have this Soviet-style rigging of the jury pool and a 100% conviction rate on Jan. 6 defendants.”

Although quite rare, there have been a few acquittals in Jan. 6 cases. Notably, federal cases writ large almost never result in an acquittal if they make it to trial.

Sheppard is quick to note his charges were non-violent, and he argued that those charged with violence were acting in self-defense. He brought up police using non-lethal deterrents like pepper spray and rubber bullets indiscriminately, and the deaths of Ashli Babbitt and Rosanne Boyland (Babbitt was shot and killed trying to enter the Speaker’s Lobby; according to a coroner’s report while Boyland died of an amphetamine overdose).

“If somebody defends themselves and defends other protesters, then they’re violent,” Sheppard said. “I just don’t think it’s right.”

Pressed on police officers’ duty to defend the Capitol from the rioters in addition to their own right to defend themselves, Sheppard was dismissive. “They shot her with no warning,” he said of Babbitt, despite officers attempting to warn her group away from a barricaded door and another demonstrator recalling officials telling protestors to get back. Babbitt was shot attempting to crawl through a broken window and Capitol Police rendered first aid immediately.

Given his sympathies with those facing charges of violence, Sheppard was frustrated with Vance’s suggestion that violent offenders not get pardons. In a response to Vance on social media, he reiterated the argument that defendants were denied due process.

“The jury pool is going to be rigged against them,” he said in an interview. “So, yeah, I don’t like what J.D. Vance had to say. I respectfully hope that he changes his position. But at the end of the day, it’s not his decision to make — it’s going to be President Trump’s decision.”

As for what he expects to happen, Sheppard has noted with interest recent quotes from Trump that he could act within the first nine minutes of his new term, and described hearing from people still in prison who already have their bags packed.

“I think you will be surprised how many people he pardons right away,” Sheppard said. “I don’t think he’s going to do three a day. I think it’s going to be hundreds a day.”

Legal analysis and stakes: ‘It’s as bad as you think’

There’s no question that Trump’s pardon power is vast, and what constraints he does face likely wouldn’t stand in the way of pardoning Jan. 6 defendants. The Trump transition team did not respond to the Ohio Capital Journal’s request for comment.

As for Sheppard’s due process claims, retired Case Western Reserve University law professor Jonathan Entin offered a blunt assessment.

“Well, he’s wrong, is the short answer,” Entin said.

“Let me read you from The Sixth Amendment to the Constitution — part of the Bill of Rights,” he went on. “It says ‘in all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial by an impartial jury — of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed.’”

Entin explained that there’s a powerful interest for the parties where a crime occurred to be in charge of prosecuting the case. “After all,” he explained, “the impact of the crime was right there.” It’s possible for a defendant to argue for a change of venue if there’s a concern that publicity might taint the jury pool, but Entin said those motions are rarely granted.

“And that’s particularly true in a really high-profile case, like the cases that arose out of Jan. 6,” he explained. “Because people everywhere know about what happened, right? And so, the idea that you could get a more impartial jury somewhere else just seems far-fetched.”

On appeal, Entin added, Sheppard could argue he was tried in the wrong venue. But even if that argument was successful, the result could just be a new trial.

Taking a step back and considering the stakes of Trump issuing widespread pardons, Ohio State University sociologist Laura Dugan paints a bleak picture.

“I mean, it’s as bad as you think,” she said. “It’s basically giving permission for people to overthrow the government if they think that the government is behaving in a way that is treasonous. And the only thing that requires them to think that is that Trump tells them.”

Dugan studies terrorism and helped launch the Global Terrorism Database. As part of Ohio State’s Mershon Center she has organized research workshops on the growth of extremism in the United States.

She tends to think Trump will pardon all those who took part in the Jan. 6 riots.

“I actually would be surprised if he doesn’t do it,” Dugan said. Even though Trump and Vance themselves have hinted at exceptions, Dugan contends setting some standard to distinguish among cases would upset Trump’s supporters.

“Despite what Vance is saying, if (Trump) does put a line where the pardons fall, he will get hit with some backlash for it — even the violent offenders,” she explained.

Regardless of how many pardons Trump eventually issues, Dugan argued that the consequence will be to vindicate the rioters’ actions and make similar events more likely in the future. Those who receive a pardon will achieve a kind of martyr-like status, and if Trump’s agenda faces obstacles, she warned, there’s are subset of his supporters who would have no qualms coming to Washington D.C. again.

The pardons will reinforce the narrative “that they were in the right,” Dugan said.

“He wants that, they want that, but it’s not good for the country.”

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