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Alzheimer's slowly took Molly McFadden's mother from her in the 1990s. More than two decades after her mom's death, the local actor continues to cope with that loss. Now McFadden takes her story as a caretaker to the stage with her one-woman play "Living on the Moon." When her mother was stricken it took a psychological toll on McFadden as she attempted to connect with her mother.

The new year is celebrated in January, but June 19 is a day of new beginnings, too. On June 19, 1865, slaves in Galveston, Texas, learned they were freed. More than 100 years later, the holiday known as Juneteenth has become a national observance of emancipation. Juneteenth is celebrated in 45 states, including Ohio, and billed as the oldest known commemoration of the ending of slavery.

Democratic nominee for Ohio governor Richard Cordray visited a manufacturing site in Cleveland on Tuesday and talked about his small business plans. Cordray met with business leaders for a closed-to-press session at Magnet, a manufacturing incubator that receives state and federal funding.

Representatives from Amazon met with elected leaders and economic development officials in Northeast Ohio Thursday to talk about what the company can do to aid small businesses. The roundtable meeting took place at Cuyahoga Community College's Corporate College East campus, just minutes away from where the e-commerce giant is building a fulfillment center on the site of the former Randall Park Mall in North Randall.

You often hear jobs described as high-skill or low-skill. But the jobs that Ohio employers have the most trouble filling fall somewhere in between.

While the COVID-19 pandemic has caught the attention of scientists and government officials around the world, the global disease also struck a chord with a Tri-C music business student. He joins a long tradition of making music out of maladies.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt talks about starring in a peanut butter commercial as a child. And plays a game where songs associated with movies are rewritten to be about the movie scene in which they appear.

A trip to the Akron Art Museum or Akron-Canton Regional Foodbank could soon include a surprise musical performance. Small, pop-up concerts are one way the Akron Symphony Orchestra plans to connect with the community and provide musicians work during the pandemic. Many performing arts organizations have been postponing or canceling large, in-person events until later in the year or next year. The Akron Symphony Orchestra went ahead this week and postponed its entire 2020-21 season for a whole year.

There's a long waiting list to get into public housing in Cleveland. At last count, the list ran to about 19,000 people. That's about one out of 20 city residents, all waiting to get apartments at places like Woodhill Homes. And the number doesn't include the Housing Choice Voucher program, formerly Section 8, where people get a subsidy to rent an apartment on the private market. Another 10,000 people wait on the list for that.

Cleveland’s Indian American community is celebrating on Inauguration Day, as Kamala Harris becomes the first woman of color to become vice president. Harris’ move into to the role of vice president is an inspiration to women everywhere, said Association of Asian Indian Women in Ohio Vice President Nita Sahai. Sahai hopes Harris can help bring about changes in areas such as access to contraception, the gender pay gap and resources for victims of sexual assault, she said.