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Akron is accepting applications for 100% tax abatements on new construction and major renovations of houses anywhere in the city. Cleveland has long had a similar program. From member station WKSU, M.L. Schultze reports. City Council approved the program in April, and now the state has OK’d the designation that allows the residential abatements to be applied anywhere in the city. Mayor Dan Horrigan’s spokeswoman, Ellen Lander-Nischt, says the idea is to try to counter decades of population loss.

At least 50 racers are expected to paddle the rapids at Saturday’s Cuyahoga Falls Kayak Race Organizers have been eyeing the level of the Cuyahoga River, to see whether they’d need water released from Lake Rockwell upstream in order to hold the event. The recent downpour has brought the river high enough, so the infusion won’t be necessary, according the lead organizer, Don Howdyshell.

Known as "Fidelito" or "Little Castro," he largely stayed out of the limelight. Cuban state media says he was being treated for depression at the time of his death.

President Trump was in Washington, D.C., at the time the fire broke out in Manhattan on Monday. The fire was brought under control; one civilian and one firefighter were injured.

Scalise was wounded in June when a gunman opened fire on Republican lawmakers practicing in a Washington, D.C., suburb for a charity baseball game.

U-S Sen. and former presidential candidate Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.) made two stops in Ohio over the weekend to speak against the Republican tax cut package that is swiftly gaining ground on Capital Hill. The Senate passed the measure along party lines early Saturday.

Democratic state lawmakers are trying again to pass an assault weapons ban in Ohio, and say they think an apparent change of heart by Gov. John Kasich…

The only woman running for the Democratic nomination for governor has dropped out of the race. She’s throwing her support to a man she’d once criticized...

Many advocates for the Great Lakes are in Washington, D.C., this week to push back against President Trump's proposal to slash funding for the region....

Medicaid expansion is one of Republican Gov. John Kasich’s signature accomplishments, but it’s likely to be gone if either his lieutenant governor or...