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Def Leppard Devo Janet Jackson John Prine Kraftwerk LL Cool J MC5 Radiohead Rage Against the Machine Roxy Music Stevie Nicks The Cure Todd Rundgren Rufus & Chaka Khan The Zombies A quirky group of New Wave pioneers from Akron, a soulful folk balladeer and an R&B hitmaker are among 15 nominees vying for a spot in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.&nb

Judy Blume didn't think writers ever really retire, but her version of "retirement" is selling books at her own shop, Books & Books Key West. “I was tired after my last novel, “In the Unlikely Event.” That took me five years,” she said.

Before he became a best-selling author, John Grisham was a lawyer and state legislator in Mississippi. He wrote his first novel, “A Time to Kill,” on the side in the 80s, but it was his second novel, “The Firm,” also a popular movie, that paved the way for a career in writing. As he launches his 40th book this week, “The Reckoning,” Grisham said he does not miss practicing law.

In remote northern Iraq, Yazidis gathered to mark an ISIS massacre five years ago. Some were relatives of Nobel Laureate Nadia Murad.

Updated: 5:32 p.m., Aug. 19, 2019 The former warden of the Cuyahoga County Jail pleaded guilty Monday to two misdemeanor charges related to his time running the troubled facility. Eric Ivey faces jail time after agreeing to the guilty plea on charges of obstruction of justice and lying — and could get a sentence ranging from probation to up to a year behind bars in the jail he once supervised.

The years-old backlog of citizen complaints against Cleveland police officers is expected to be eliminated later this month, according to a report filed in federal court by the city’s law department Monday. The monitor overseeing the city’s police reform agreement has pushed city leaders for years to clear the backlog of cases. Cleveland hired Chicago-based risk management firm Hillard Heintze to investigate the old cases, while city staff focused on new complaints.

Some working to coordinate efforts combatting the opioid crisis were shocked by an Aug. 22 announcement from former Ohio State University President Gordon Gee and former Governor John Kasich, who are forming a nonprofit to steer any money from a national opioid settlement to hospitals and health-based research.

SPACES wants visitors to come into “Room” in order to escape from it.

Patton Oswalt is a very funny man. But the humor drained from his life when his wife of more than a decade – writer Michelle McNamara – passed away in 2016. It was almost a year before the comedian and actor returned to television work on shows like "VEEP" and "A.P. Bio" or began talking and joking about his life onstage. "It was a huge blow to my reality, and then I just didn't know what to do with myself after a while, and then I started going back on stage," he said.

Tracy K. Smith thought her research into documents from the Civil War and the preceding Antebellum years would feel remote. Instead, she found the voices in letters from that era quite recognizable. Smith shares some of those voices in addition to her own in “Wade in the Water.” The poetry collection combines letters from African-American soldiers and their family members, including pleas to President Abraham Lincoln, along with comments from a slave owner.