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A 90-year-old Texas woman is trying to make "Juneteenth," a holiday that honors the freedom of slaves, a national holiday. She's walked around the country and will end her petition in Washington, D.C.

A new study finds there are about 2 trillion galaxies in the observable universe, up from about 200 billion. It's the first major revision to that number since the 1990s.

Cleveland-area arts leader Tom Schorgl announced today he will retire from Community Partnership for Arts and Culture (CPAC) at the end of the year. Schorgl served as CPAC’s CEO and president for 20 years. “Cleveland/Cuyahoga County has become more and more aware of the value- the multiple values- of arts and culture,” Schorgl said. “That’s not always the case in other communities.” CPAC was established by the George Gund Foundation and Cleveland Foundation in 1997 to support greater Cleveland’s arts and culture sector. Schorgl was hired to lead the organization.

When you’ve been recording as long and often as Pat Metheny, it would be easy to divide your music into various periods. But the multi-Grammy Award winning guitarist, who made this first of nearly 40 recordings as a band leader in 1976, doesn’t see his work that way.

Upstart soccer team FC Cincinnati continues to thrill fans and draw record crowds. More than 32,000 - 32,287 to be exact - turned out Wednesday night to...

George Kozmon has served as director of the Cain Park Arts Festival since 1998, taking over for the late husband and wife, Audrey and Harvey Feinberg, who began the festival 40 years ago. As a young painter enlisted to assist Harvey Feinberg shortly after Audrey's passing, initially Kozmon had zero interest in becoming festival director someday. Kozmon remembers telling Harvey: "I'm an artist. You know, if you're trying to groom somebody for some kind of position here, I'm not your guy. I just want to paint."

Some 100 people gathered at Tri-C last night to discuss their vision for community policing in Cleveland. Their input will help shape policy as part of the city’s police reform efforts with the US Justice Department. Attendees were asked to come up with innovative solutions to community problems. One group suggested police drop-in spaces in schools and churches. They also suggested reviving midnight basketball to give kids something to do.

Cleveland city hall says it will work to reduce the speed limit on a west side residential street after someone dressed like a city worker changed the signs without permission. Last weekend, someone wearing a hard hat and reflective lime green vest took down the 35 mph signs from utility poles on Franklin Boulevard. The person put up 25 mph signs in their place. Casandra Vasu snapped a photo of the person and posted it on Facebook. She said she was ecstatic.

The Ohio EPA says it will spend $6 million to clean up a huge pile of debris site in East Cleveland that was branded as a recycling center for construction material. But some questions are yet unresolved: What will happen to the property after cleanup, and will the state recoup its expenses from local agencies and contractors?

New York City attorney Roy Cohn made his name in the 1950's working for Senator Joseph McCarthy and prosecuting Julius and Ethel Rosenberg for espionage. Roy Cohn's name has returned to the headlines for his work in the 1980's with real estate mogul (now President) Donald Trump.