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Children who experience serious trauma are more likely to have poor health as adults, if the trauma is not addressed, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The Cleveland Fire Department is facing charges of discrimination in its employment process from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. But the city says it doesn’t agree with those findings.

Health officials are monitoring another possible case of coronavirus in Ohio. Samples have been sent to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Ohio Department of Health announced Wednesday. The patient is not in Cuyahoga County, according to a county board of health spokesperson. But ODH did not provide a location of the case or any details about the person being tested and monitored by state and local agencies.

Fear and misinformation about the coronavirus has ignited discrimination against Chinese-Americans across the country and here in Northeast Ohio, according to Asian Services in Action (ASIA), a local Asian health and social services organization. News of the coronavirus is leading to prejudice towards the local Asian-American community, said ASIA CEO Elaine Tso. It’s due in part to serious misinformation about how the virus is spread, she said.

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.