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CLEVELAND (WJW)– Longtime Cleveland radio host Mike Trivisonno died suddenly on Thursday. He was 74 years old. WTAM AM 1100 announced his passing during its Thursday afternoon broadcast. “Very sad to say that Mike Trivisonno passed away today,” said programming director Ray Davis while fighting back tears. He expressed condolences to Trivisonno’s family. “It’s going to be a very difficult show today.” The broadcast was emotional as his colleagues reminisced about his legacy. “The Mike Trivisonno Show” aired weekdays from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m., where Triv discussed sports, politics and more. Trivisonno started as a frequent caller to Pete...

U.S.—Kamala Harris chuckles as she tells the story. Not the chuckle of an insincere politician making up a story to appeal to her base, but the chuckle of a warm, loving woman. The kind of chuckle you would chuckle while hanging out with your family or locking up non-violent drug offenders for decades. She recalled in her interview with The Babylon Bee how as a little girl she helped slaves escape to the North on the "undewgwound wailwoad." (Did we mention how warm and sincere she was? It was like talking to your best bud). "My parents were pushing me...

President Trump is planning to bring to Hunter Biden associate Tony Bobulinksi as a guest to Thursday night's debate, Fox News has learned.

This story doesn’t seem to have picked up any steam in the last few hours. A google news search shows about four reports on it worldwide over the past 6 hours. I suppose the media will be able to ignore it with wall to wall debate coverage today. Sorry for the vanity all, I just thought this story might have more legs. An unnamed source Fox reported on just named himself. Surely Fox would cover that right? Maybe I’m just being impatient? Does this NOT seem like as big a deal as it seems to me? Anyhow, here is the...

CLEVELAND — When Governor Mike DeWine wanted to change the date of the Ohio primary last month he couldn't under the state's constitution. However, Dr. Amy Acton, the state's Health Director, could and did. By statute she has the ability "to make special or standing orders or rules… for preventing the spread of contagious or infectious diseases." State Representative John Becker (R-Union) said that statute goes too far. "There's been an epic abuse of power,” Becker told News 5. As a result he's introducing this week a bill titled NOW, Need Ohio Working, that would make Dr. Acton's orders recommendations...

Istanbul — Turkey has the biggest coronavirus outbreak in the Middle East, with more than 117,000 confirmed infections. More than 3,000 people have died. But the government claims to have a lower fatality rate than the global average estimated by the World Health Organization at over 3%. The Turkish government imposed weekend-only lockdowns and banned only those under the age of 20 and over 65 from leaving their homes during the week, in an effort to limit the economic impact of the pandemic. Turkey's Ministry of Health says the relatively low death toll is thanks to treatment protocols in the...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — For the second time in two days, the state of Ohio’s mandatory requirements for businesses reopening this month have been revised, now requiring face masks for employees and distributors in all business sectors slated to reopen in May. This comes after the state revised its requirements on Tuesday from required for everyone to highly recommended. According to the updated Responsible Protocols on the state’s Responsible RestartOhio plan website, the following applies to all businesses that will be allowed to reopen in May: “Require face coverings for employees and recommend them for clients/customers at all times.” The state’s...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WJW)– Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine says customers not required to wear masks in retail settings when stores are permitted to reopen from the coronavirus shutdown on May 12. While it is not a mandate, it remains a strong recommendation, the governor said during his news conference on Tuesday. He said the original order was intended to protect store workers, especially since so many carrying the virus are asymptomatic. “So it’s for the protection of these employees, the people that are serving us every day,” DeWine said. “It gives added protection to others. When you wear a mask, you...

A Detroit, Mich., branch of the Democratic Party plans to censure state representative Karen Whitsett (D., Detroit) after she met with President Trump earlier this month and praised him for recommending the anti-viral drug hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for coronavirus. Whitsett contracted coronavirus in March and has since recovered. The freshman lawmaker credited hydroxychloroquine, a medication touted by Trump and other U.S. officials as a possible therapeutic for coronavirus, with saving her life. “Thank you for everything that you have done,” Whitsett told Trump and Vice President Mike Pence at the White House on April 14. “I did not know...

Gov. Andy Beshear says it’s unlikely that Kentucky will begin easing coronavirus crowd restrictions and business closures starting May 1, as Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine said would happen in his state. At Thursday’s briefing, Beshear said that the state is looking at several different metrics for how to determine when it’s safe to start opening Kentucky’s economy up, but that May 1 “is a hard day to hit.” “It’s really gradual and phased in, every plan we see out there,” Beshear said. “Late May or June, we hope there are certainly some things Kentuckians will be able to be doing...

CINCINNATI (FOX19) - Ohio Governor Mike DeWine said Ohio will begin to open back up on May 1. “I am an optimist and am confident that Ohioans will also live up to the challenge of doing things differently as we open back up beginning on May 1st,” he said. DeWine said as the state open backs up, they will continue to monitor where Ohio is in the curve, the amount of PPE that’s available and Ohio’s testing capacity. “In re-opening any business, it will be essential to provide a safe environment for employees. We cannot have another large spike of...

SANDUSKY, Ohio (WJW) — Cedar Point on Tuesday gave an update on the latest as it prepares to open the amusement park “as soon as it is safe to do so.” The park released information on how it will manage 2020 season passholder benefits: 2020 Season Passes and purchased 2020 Season Pass Add-On Products (if applicable) will be valid for the remainder of 2020 when our park is able to reopen. Additionally, we will extend the validity dates for current 2020 Season Passes* (as well as purchased 2020 Season Pass Add-On Products) through the 2021 Season according to pass type....

President Donald Trump on Tuesday met with recovered coronavirus patients at the White House. State Representative Karen Whitsett of Michigan, who credited President Trump for her treatment with hydroxychloroquine, met with the president as well as other patients from California, Michigan, and Arkansas. “I was afraid for my life,” Whitsett said, noting that the hospitals surrounding her were full. “I honestly felt like I was going to die.” She said she was concerned about her life, as she had chronic Lyme disease, before she took hydroxychloroquine and felt better. Trump said that he wanted Whitsett to visit his personal White...

South Dakota will be the first state to hold a statewide trial for hydroxychloroquine as a possible treatment of the coronavirus. Gov. Kristi Noem announced on Monday that the state health department and every major hospital would take part in a clinical trial to treat COVID-19 patients and those who have been exposed to individuals who tested positive for the coronavirus. The trial, which will be led by Sanford Health, was given approval by federal authorities to be the first statewide trial of the drug. "We are going to be the first state in the nation to run a statewide...

If your state is on lockdown. If your state is determining essential businesses. Are they still selling lottery tickets? Are lottery tickets essential? Is it worth having those customers in line?

An international poll of more than 6,000 doctors released Thursday found that the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine was the most highly rated treatment for the novel coronavirus. The survey conducted by Sermo, a global health care polling company, of 6,227 physicians in 30 countries found that 37% of those treating COVID-19 patients rated hydroxychloroquine as the “most effective therapy” from a list of 15 options. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration gave chloroquine and its next-generation derivative, hydroxychloroquine, emergency-use authorization Monday for treating the novel coronavirus, although the drug was already being used off-label by some doctors and hospitals for COVID-19...

Malaria drug hydroxychloroquine continues to dominate the headlines after many success stories from doctors in the front line. This evening, a renowned infectious disease specialist Dr. Stephen Smith, said he and his team have treated over the 50 patients with hydroxychloroquine. Dr. Smith is the founder of the Smith Center for Infectious Diseases in New Jersey. Tonight, Dr. Smith shared his findings among COVID-19 patients in an interview with Fox News host Laura Ingraham. Dr. Smith pointed out that not a single patient, COVID-19 patient, that has been under hydroxychloroquine regimen has had to to be intubated. Dr. Smith said...

A drug hailed by US president Donald Trump as a potential treatment for coronavirus appears to be safe but its effectiveness is still unknown, according to an Oxford-led research team. Hydroxychloroquine is one of the medicines undergoing clinical trials to assess its safety and efficacy. It is used as a treatment against malaria and certain autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis. More than 300 researchers from the Observational Health Data Sciences and Informatics (OHDSI) international community, including a team from the Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences, have been investigating whether there are serious side effects from the...

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer drew fire from some on the right after the Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs (LARA) sent a letter last week threatening "administrative action" against doctors who prescribed two experimental drugs that could potentially help coronavirus patients. But the Whitmer administration has since removed the language threatening doctors from the letter and is now asking the federal government to send shipments of the drugs, Bridge magazine reports. The Food and Drug Administration issued an emergency authorization for the antimalarial drugs hydroxychloroquine sulfate and chloroquine phosphate on Saturday. Conservatives including Charlie Kirk and Rudy Guiliani accused Whitmer...

QUEENS — Brian Zupanick, who marked his 39th birthday alone Sunday, couldn’t believe his ears when a doctor called him from Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan this weekend. The doctor had some positive news about his long-time partner, John Giarratano, who’d been placed on a ventilator for 13 days, after COVID-19 virus invaded Giarratano’s lungs. “He’s off the ventilator,” Brian Zupanick told PIX11 with jubilation, as we FaceTimed him to discuss his good piece of news. “I couldn’t ask for a better present, honestly.” Giarratano—a 42-year-old, freelance TV producer—was the first COVID-19 patient we profiled early last weekend. His partner,...