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Former Republican Ohio Congressman Ralph Regula passed away Wednesday. He was 92. Regula served 18 terms on Capitol Hill spanning seven presidencies. In a 2012 interview, he recalled travelling the world with his fellow Congressmen. “I remember Moscow, and Gorbachev was head. Deng Xiaoping, in China. And Australia we went. I never could have dreamed of it when I was a boy on a farm.”

Now a post-tropical cyclone, it is expected to bring hurricane-force winds to Ireland on Monday. As a Category 3 on Saturday, Ophelia tracked farther east in the Atlantic than any hurricane on record.

A new report assessing the use of body cameras raises concerns that police departments could misuse the video footage. As ideastream’s Mark Urycki reports, police departments in Akron, Columbus, Cincinnati, and Cleveland are among those distributing body cameras to its officers. Civil rights organizations The Leadership Conference and Upturn have issued a scorecard measuring 8 concerns about body cameras and not many departments meet their standards.

At the Cleveland Museum of Art’s “The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s” visitors view the exhibit while the music that gives the era its name plays in the background. So what was playing in the foreground while the Jazz Age was actually taking place in Cleveland in the 1920s? To find out, we asked Joe Mosbrook. He’s the author of the 1993 book “Cleveland Jazz History” and host of a weekly radio feature of the same name that’s aired on WCPN since 1988.

The monitor overseeing Cleveland’s police reform agreement says the city is “not on the right track” in reducing a backlog of citizen complaints. City officials, the monitoring team and the U.S. attorney’s office agreed at a federal court hearing today to come up with a new plan by mid-December for cutting down the backlog. “The city needs to take this seriously,” monitor Matthew Barge said at the hearing. He later added, “This has been festering for a very long time.”

A new report by a local development organization says Northeast Ohio's economy is becoming more diverse. The report's author, says trends behind that evolution are both encouraging and concerning.

With much attention focused on the Cleveland Museum of Art exhibit, “The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s,” Cleveland Jazz Orchestra’s artistic director Paul Ferguson wanted to kick of the CJO’s 2017-18 season with a nod to the music that gave the era its name. So now the question became: what to play? Ferguson turned to a work that has come for many to represent the sound of the “Jazz Age.”

Within hearing the first 3 gunshots, staff at Rancho Tehama Elementary School immediately started lock-down procedures they'd practiced for years. Their fast action is credited with saving lives.

One month after large and destructive storms disrupted the U.S. economy, job creation rebounded somewhat and the unemployment rate fell again.

With another government shutdown looming this week, Senate Democrats, including Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown, are still hoping to strike a deal on protections for the undocumented immigrants known as "Dreamers." But at a news conference Monday, Brown suggested that failure to reach an agreement on the issue is "unlikely" to result in another shutdown.