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William Preucil has resigned his post as Distinguished Professor of Violin at the Cleveland Institute of Music.

Republican candidate for governor Mike DeWine and his running mate Jon Husted announced a new wellness initiative at a campaign event on Tuesday. The proposed plan would first roll out for all state employees, then eventually for people on Medicaid. "We have to prevent chronic healthcare problems before they take place," DeWine said. "Our goal is to get Ohio healthy, to prevent chronic disease from developing, and to help Ohioans take control of their health by meeting goals and benchmarks."

After high school, Francine Parr wasn’t finding opportunities to participate in local theater. “I almost wanted to quit theater, actually, all in all,” she said. Instead of giving up, the 22-year-old worked with her father, Howard Parr, executive director of the Akron Civic Theatre, to create opportunities for herself and others with the Millennial Theatre Project. The group targets millennials to fill all roles for productions, and it aims to serve as a bridge between youth and adult theater.

Stemming the tide of drug overdose deaths in Lorain County, and nine other counties across the country, is the focus of a new pilot program from the U.S. Attorney General’s office. Extra resources will be funneled to Lorain County for the next two years to try to crack down on people selling the deadly opioid fentanyl, said Justin Herdman, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio. According to the Centers for Disease Control, fentanyl is 50 to 100 times more potent than morphine and is driving the increase in overdose deaths.

When award-winning comedian Hasan Minhaj was looking for a showrunner for his new Netflix program, "Patriot Act," he chose Cleveland native Jim Margolis. Jim Margolis [courtesy: Jim Margolis] They both worked on "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" and share similar styles of humor.

With Ohio consumer confidence continuing to soar, economic forecasters said Monday they expect Ohio shoppers to increase holiday spending by 3.2 percent…

Besides stuffing ourselves silly, Thanksgiving is a time for gratitude, according to long-time Cleveland food writer Joe Crea. The former Plain Dealer food and restaurant editor has a lot to be thankful for this season, after more than two years of chemotherapy in his fight against cancer. Crea continues to write about local food and restaurants for Crain's Cleveland Business but admits after his chemo treatments his pallette is temporarily affected.

Late Sunday night, the Trump Administration and Canada agreed on a deal to renew the North American Free Trade Agreement The renamed U.S.-Mexico-Canada-Agreement (USMCA) addresses environmental issues including invasive species, pollution from ships, sustainable forestry, plastics pollution, and ozone protections.

Former Cuyahoga County Jail inmates and their advocates described their experiences with the facility at a meeting in Cleveland’s Kinsman neighborhood Thursday night. The city’s NAACP chapter, civil rights attorneys and others organized the meeting at Mt. Sinai Baptist Church in response to a U.S. Marshals Service report from November, which found inhumane jail conditions that violated inmates’ constitutional rights.

After September 11, 2001, Rania Matar was troubled by portrayals of the Middle East in the media. “I became very aware of my identity, not only as an American, which I had become by then, but also as a Lebanese and a Palestinian,” she said. “So I decided to go back and tell a different story.”