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Cleveland right-hander Trevor Bauer has pronounced himself ready to pitch Game 3 of the AL Championship Series, saying the stitches he needed after...

For the last installment of Weekend Edition's holiday recipe series, NPR founding mother Susan Stamberg tells Scott Simon about her special New Year's Eve recipe for Caviar Pie.

The Senate bill that would roll-back the Affordable Care Act is drawing concern from Ohio’s hospitals. The Ohio Hospital Association says if the Republican-backed healthcare bill passes, more Ohioans will be uninsured, resulting in less preventative care and more emergency room visits. The hospital association’s spokesman John Palmer says hospitals absorb most of the cost of emergency room visits by people who can’t pay. He adds, if ER costs increase, it can lead to cuts.

Akron is accepting applications for 100% tax abatements on new construction and major renovations of houses anywhere in the city. Cleveland has long had a similar program. From member station WKSU, M.L. Schultze reports. City Council approved the program in April, and now the state has OK’d the designation that allows the residential abatements to be applied anywhere in the city. Mayor Dan Horrigan’s spokeswoman, Ellen Lander-Nischt, says the idea is to try to counter decades of population loss.

Ohio Democratic Senator Sherrod Brown says he has "no problem" with delaying Congress’s August recess, to make progress on key legislative items. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday announced the two-week recess push-back in order to gain support for the Republicans’ health care reform bill. But Brown emphasizes the need for both sides of the aisle to work together. “If he’s willing to work with us. If he’s willing to just say to his members, ‘Go ahead and work with the Democrats, we’ll get stuff done,'” Brown said.

This story was updated at 3:34 p.m., April 17: Authorities are offering a $50,000 reward as the search for Steve Stephens stretches past 24 hours. There...

More help is coming for people caught-up in Cuyahoga County’s growing opioid epidemic. The YMCA of Greater Cleveland has received funding to add beds to its transitional housing program for recovering addicts. From Ohio Public Radio station WKSU, Kevin Niedermier reports. Executive director of the Y-Haven program, Ed Gemerchek says the $200,000 from the Cleveland Foundation is a big boost to the 23-year-old program, which now serves 113 homeless men.

A campaign to combat prescription opioid addiction, believed to be the first in the country, kicked off Wednesday in Cuyahoga County. The education effort includes coordinated ads and special print and broadcast programming, with input from a wide range of resources. From Ohio Public Radio station WKSU, Kevin Niedermier reports. Titled “Opioids: Know the Risks,” it enlists the area’s medical, government, law enforcement, education and religious communities.

At least 50 racers are expected to paddle the rapids at Saturday’s Cuyahoga Falls Kayak Race Organizers have been eyeing the level of the Cuyahoga River, to see whether they’d need water released from Lake Rockwell upstream in order to hold the event. The recent downpour has brought the river high enough, so the infusion won’t be necessary, according the lead organizer, Don Howdyshell.

The deciding Game 7 of the World Series is tonight in Cleveland. The Indians could have clinched the title with a win last night, but lost9-to-3 to the...