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  • Though flu cases are high, the Ohio Department of Health said it's not too late to get a flu vaccine.
  • Brittany Malkowski is a recovering heroin addict who’s coming up on 6 months of being sober… And she’s doing something unusual: talking about her opioid addiction with deputy Karl Schwemley as though he were a counselor or a close friend. At Zepf recovery house in Toledo, Malkowski describes her breaking point in October 2016 when she overdosed twice in one night.
  • We visit the grocery store on average twice a week, every week, all year long. Next to housing and transportation, many families biggest expense is groceries, often costing around ten percent of household income. Yet, what we do really know about the place that provides much of what we eat? James Beard Award-winning food writer Michael Ruhlman takes a deep dive into the world of the grocery store in his new book, “Grocery: The Buying and Selling of Food in America” (Abrams Press).
  • In the 70s and 80s lines snaked out the doors of Cleveland clubs like Peabody’s when the popular reggae band I-Tal took the stage. Smoothly directing the action was founding member and guitarist David Smeltz, but beneath his cool exterior something troubling was happening. He shares a cautionary tale to others in his memoir Clean: From Reggae to Recovery.
  • American drivers put 3.22 trillion miles on the nations roads last year, up by 2.8 percent from 2015. A better economy and lower gas prices fueled the increase, which highlights infrastructure needs.
  • Neuroscientist Cori Bargmann is leading the new Chan Zuckerberg Initiative's $3 billion effort to cure or prevent "all diseases" by the end of this century. She talks about that daunting task.
  • NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Alison Lundergan Grimes, the Democratic secretary of state for Kentucky, about resisting the Presidential Election Commission's requests for voter data from the states.
  • Two major decisions from the high court Thursday: one upholding affirmative action in college admissions, and one shelving President Obama's program protecting immigrants in the country illegally.
  • Cancer treatment is increasingly expensive, even for patients who have insurance. Some doctors advocate discussing the costs of cancer treatment as they would hair loss, pain or other side effects.
  • The city has some of the highest auto insurance rates in the U.S. Many residents there drop coverage — or claim they live outside the city limits. The mayor has a plan to cut the cost of insurance.
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