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The Mississippi Gulf Coast town where Jesmyn Ward sets her latest novel, “Sing, Unburied, Sing,” (Scribner) may be fictional, but she know it quite well.

Twiggy Pucci Garçon got her start competing at drag balls — now, she's the runway routine choreographer for the FX show Pose, which celebrates ball culture in New York City in the '80s and '90s.

President Biden extended relief for federal student loan borrowers for an additional 90 days because borrowers are "still coping with the impacts of the pandemic." Payments now resume May 1.

With this album, a London singer — a Prince favorite — and her versatile voice inch closer to mainstream pop.

The contaminated fruit that killed 33 people and sickened at least 147 others in 2011 came from a farm 90 miles from Rocky Ford, Colo. But the town's many melon farmers took a huge hit nonetheless, and are still trying to convince the public their cantaloupes are safe.

Croatia and Japan ended 90-minutes of regulation and 30-minutes of extra time tied 1-1. The Croatian goalkeeper Dominik Livaković stopped three Japanese penalty attempts in the shootout.

New rules from the US Environmental Protection Agency require them to reduce 90% of climate-change causing emissions by 2039, which will affect the four coal burning power plants in Ohio.

Stay-at-home fathers, missionaries who love their charges, women who make the first move: characters who would have been controversial in previous generations came to the forefront in the Jazz era. Author Ursula DeYoung recommends three books that, after 90 years, still seem fresh in their revolutionary treatment of all kinds of love.

The Cavaliers have a chance to punch their tickets to a third straight NBA Finals appearance. Cleveland looks to finish off the Boston Celtics in game five of their best-of-seven Eastern Conference Finals series tonight. The Cavs won game four in Cleveland on Tuesday, after falling at home in game three on Sunday, Cavs coach Tyronn Lue says just because the team holds a commanding lead in the series, that doesn’t mean a win is guaranteed.

Akron is digitizing personnel files to better monitor the behavior of its safety forces. Akron city council this week approved spending $43,000 for the program to track the use of force, tardiness, public complaints, and more. From Ohio Public Radio station WKSU, Kevin Niedermier reports. Akron officials say the new software package will make it easier and more efficient to spot public safety trends and improve police, fire and EMS service.