CLEVELAND — As temperatures heat up this week, the National Weather Service has issued an Air Quality Alert for the greater Cleveland area through midnight on Monday through midnight on Tuesday. 

The alert will be in effect for Ashtabula, Cuyahoga, Geauga, Lake, Lorain, Medina, Portage and Summit counties.

NWS warns the air quality will be unhealthy for sensitive groups during this time, which includes children, the elderly and those with breathing difficulties. 

NWS offered these tips to help reduce air pollution in your area: bike, walk, use transit, work from home, combine trips, turn off your engines and don’t idle, and wait to mow the lawn.

CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) – Rite Aid confirmed Monday the company is slated to close all but four of its Ohio drugstore locations.

“Nearly all of our stores in Ohio will be closing by the end of September,” a Rite Aid spokesperson said to 19 News.

The company shared this list of the four locations that will remain in operation:

• 419 Claremont Avenue, Ashland, Ohio
• 735 North Water Street, Uhrichsville, Ohio
• 1955 Cleveland Road, Wooster, Ohio
• 1045 Wheeling Avenue, Cambridge, Ohio

The company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protections in 2023 in connection to lawsuits and losses, according to the Associated Press.

The drugstore retailer has been closing locations since its bankruptcy announcement.

According to a spokesperson, most prescriptions and pharmacy inventory will be transferred to Walgreens to reduce disruption of service.

Rite Aid says the impacted stores will maintain normal pharmacy operations up to and including their last day of business.

“We are fully committed to helping our customers make the transition to their new pharmacy,” the spokesperson said.

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CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) – A shooting victim was found laying in the grass early Monday morning.

Cleveland police said the 19-year-old man was located in the 2300 block of E. 55th St. around 1 a.m.

This is in the city’s Central neighborhood.

Cleveland EMS transported him to a local hospital. His condition and name have not been released.

It is not known where the shooting happened.

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