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  • Just in time for the National Spelling Bee, Google published a map of the words people in each state have a hard time spelling. The results are not pretty. (And what's up with New Jersey?)
  • James E. Cartwright, once known as President Obama's favorite general, admitted to misleading FBI investigators looking for the source of a leak about covert operations.
  • Ohio schools may expand their anti-drug message to students. Attorney General Mike DeWine says eight Ohioans die each day from drug overdoses and he...
  • Children of color in Ohio fair far worse than their white peers when it comes to well-being and opportunity in the state. The findings come from the latest Kids Count: Race for Results report. The report from the non-partisan Annie E. Casey Foundation uses 12 indicators to compare childhood well-being across states. The indicators cover a range of outcomes in education, health, and economic areas, like 4th grade reading proficiency and teen pregnancy rates. In Ohio, African American children score far lower than their white, Asian and Latino peers.
  • Students at several Northeast Ohio high schools staged walkouts Wednesday, a week after the deaths of 17 people at a Florida school. Nearly 50 students at Lakewood High School were among the teens protesting gun violence and calling on federal lawmakers to enact stricter gun laws. “Make the requirements harder,” 18-year-old senior Mohammed Abdelsalam said. “Make the requirements harder because an 18-year-old or a 19-year-old shouldn’t be able to have an assault rifle.”
  • The Very Rev. Gary Hall says glass windows in honor of Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee need to go. "We couldn't with credibility address the race agenda" with the windows in place, he tells NPR.
  • Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch calls the deal "the largest settlement with a single entity in American history."
  • Representatives from Amazon met with elected leaders and economic development officials in Northeast Ohio Thursday to talk about what the company can do to aid small businesses. The roundtable meeting took place at Cuyahoga Community College's Corporate College East campus, just minutes away from where the e-commerce giant is building a fulfillment center on the site of the former Randall Park Mall in North Randall.
  • A Virginia judge has temporarily blocked the governor's order to remove Richmond's controversial statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.
  • India claims its fighter jets crossed into Pakistani-controlled territory and hit militant training camps there. Pakistan says India struck an open field.
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