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Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-Ohio) took the stage with her progressive challenger Morgan Harper in a downtown Columbus church Sunday. In the heavily Democratic…

What are your questions about the coronavirus? ideastream is answering as many questions as possible, with help from local experts in a range of fields.

It’s widely known that Carl Stokes was the first African-American elected mayor of a major U.S. city – but he wasn’t the first elected in the state of Ohio. That honor goes to Mayor Arthur Johnston and the Village of Miles Heights – which no longer exists.

A Cleveland Clinic survey finds that most Americans – including 80 percent of millennials – don’t know heart disease is the leading cause of death for women. Many of the respondents incorrectly thought it was breast cancer.

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro and puzzlemaster Will Shortz play the puzzle this week with listener Bill Tighe of Redondo Beach, Calif.

The Greater Cleveland COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund announced Friday May 15, 2020 it will provide grants to Asian Services in Action and MidTown Cleveland to support small businesses and immigrant and refugee populations. The governor’s stay-at-home order in March affected almost all Ohio businesses financially, including Asian-owned businesses in Cleveland's AsiaTown neighborhood, just east of downtown.

Last week, in a 6-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that federal law prohibits any employment discrimination against people who identify as lesbian...

The Cleveland City Planning Commission recently approved plans for a mixed-use, affordable housing development near MetroHealth's main campus on W. 25th Street. The first building in the project will cost nearly $15 million and include 72 affordable-housing apartments in the Clark-Fulton neighborhood on Cleveland's west side. It’s part of a larger $60 million housing project from the hospital system.

EMS providers undergo training to save lives, but a recent study shows there’s room for improvement in how they deal with a critter they encounter on the job: bed bugs. The study surveyed EMS providers in Northeast Ohio, and 21 percent reported seeing bed bugs at least monthly. Among this group, only 30 percent said they took the affected stretcher out of service after an encounter. EMS providers as a whole scored low on their knowledge of bed bug biology and public health.

Anthony Gray plays the puzzle with puzzlemaster Will Shortz and NPR's Scott Detrow.