CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) – If you would like to include a business in our school closing list please email us at web@19actionnews.com.   The following activities have been canceled due to weather:   The Free Community Dinner that is held at Streetsboro United Methodist Church has been canceled for1/28/2014. Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court will […]

COLUMBUS, OH (WOIO) – Monday, Gov. John R. Kasich urged the Ohio General Assembly and Ohio Department of Education to work together on legislation providing a one-time increase in the number of days that schools can take off because of snow or bad weather. Kasich said a one-time increase of just a few days is […]

  CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) – The City of Shaker Heights is making the Stephanie Tubbs Jones Community Building available to residents who may need refuge from the cold. Because the icy conditions can cause unanticipated outages and burst pipes, residents may need a place to warm up. Those who find themselves in such circumstances can […]

  It’s likely bad weather might force the big game to move around since it’s playing in open air up north.   (CNN) – How does Super Bowl Monday sound to you? What about Super Bowl Friday? This year we have a football first, the Super Bowl will be held in an open air stadium […]

  CLEVELAND – More than 300 schools were closed or on a delay Friday morning. The Cleveland Metropolitan School District made the decision early to close. NewsChannel5 received a written statement explaining the protocol used to close CMSD: 1. We use a threshold of “when the wind combines with the temperature to make it feel […]

  AKRON, Ohio – January has already been an extremely busy month for plumbers thanks to many frozen and busted pipes caused by the Polar Vortex. “I think within a three-day period, we received 400 calls,” said Keith Miller, owner of Plumbing and Flooding 911, based in Norton. With another arctic blast expected to settle […]

  LAKEWOOD, Ohio – Police arrested a 23-year-old after his kids were found wandering the streets alone barefoot. Officers said they received a phone call from a concerned citizen around 11:45 a.m. Thursday reporting three children running outside on Lark Street with no coats and barefoot. Officers responded to find two 4-year-olds and a 6-year-old […]

  CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) – The Horseshoe Casino reopened its doors at 4 p.m. Tuesday after shutting down in the wee hours of the morning Monday. According to the casino, the sub-zero temperatures caused a water pipe to burst overnight inside the casino, affecting the food court area on Level Two.   To read what is going on […]

  CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) – The frigid blast of winter weather caused major problems for the RTA on Tuesday. By Tuesday’s evening rush hour, Red Line Red Line East Side service is running between Windermere to Tower City. Buses continue to serve Red Line WESTBOUND for the time being. The Waterfront Line is now served […]

  LORAIN COUNTY, OH (WOIO) – Columbia Gas crews are nearly finished with shutting off all the gas lines to homes that lost natural gas on Monday night. Approximately 2,200 customers are affected in Elyria, Eaton Township and North Ridgeville. Once all the meters have been shut down, the entire system will have to be purged, […]

  CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) – A 58-year-old Cleveland man was found dead outside on Tuesday morning, and it appears to be cold-related. The man was found outside of a house that appeared to be abandoned in the 2100 block of East 68th Street. EMS crews tell 19 Action News they did not see any trauma. His […]

  (WOIO) – Children & Cold Weather Children are more prone to develop hypothermia (lowered body temperature) when the body’s rate of heat loss is greater than the rate of producing heat. Children also have a relatively larger body surface area that contributes to more rapid heat loss. Also, 50% -60% of the body’s heat […]