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Procter & Gamble says it plans to ramp up the number of robots it has to a total of 5,000 in the next five years. It now has 3,000, up from 1,000 in...

Ten years ago this month, two Cleveland guys quit their jobs and bought an old bar at the corner of West 58th Street and Detroit Avenue - "The Happy Dog." The two friends shared a first name - Sean Watterson and the late Sean Kilbane, who died in 2014 at the age of 43. The Happy Dog is now known for hosting everything from polka parties to pinball leagues to "Keep Talking" storytelling sessions.

In its first year, Cleveland’s Rental Inspection Unit has completed 763 random tests for lead dust. Out of those inspections, the city issued 34 violations, with less than half of those properties now cleared of their lead hazard. Department of Building and Housing Director Ayonna Blue Donald testified before city council’s Development, Planning, and Sustainability Committee Tuesday, saying she wants three additional properties cleared by the end of the year. 11 appeals were filed and Donald said the remaining five violations are heading toward prosecution.

September 18, 2016, was a sad day for many Northeast Ohio music fans as the Barking Spider Tavern closed its doors after 30 years of presenting acoustic music of all kinds on the Case Western Reserve University campus. However, music will soon return to the space.

Institutions that hold collections of Chinese art are facing a crisis. The number of Chinese painting conservators is rapidly shrinking. “Most of the conservators in the field came from China shortly after the Cultural Revolution, but also up until the late 1980s. They are about five to 10 years away from retirement, and there weren’t any junior conservators taking over their legacy,” said Per Knutas, chief conservator at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

While Blossom Music Center is in fact a center of music every summer in Northeast Ohio, it shares the same grounds with a center of summer theater. Porthouse Theatre, as it's known now, also shares the same anniversary as Blossom and celebrates its 50th season of musical theater in the Cuyahoga Valley this summer.

When Greg Harris needed some work done on his 1970s era pinball machine, he took it to David Spasic at the Superelectric Pinball Parlor in Cleveland for maintenance. Little did the Rock and Roll Hall Fame and Museum president and CEO know, this was the beginning of Rock Hall's most-interactive exhibit to date. David Spasic

With a self-imposed Sunday deadline quickly approaching, the Trump administration finished negotiations with Canada to agree to a trade deal to supplant NAFTA. The trade agreement will no longer be known as the North American Free Trade Agreement, instead being labelled the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement. "Throughout the campaign I promised to renegotiate NAFTA," President Donald Trump said. "We have kept that promise."

The leader of the Ohio Legislative Black Caucus joined with some Cleveland City Council members and other local officials to support Issue 1 at a news conference Thursday morning. The proposed constitutional amendment would reduce penalties for drug possession, reclassifying lower-level felonies as misdemeanors. It would also allow incarcerated people, with some exceptions, to shorten their prison sentences by taking part in job and education programs.

Cleveland City Council is examining a program to offer free attorneys for poor people facing eviction in housing court. Council members from Cleveland and New York discussed the idea at a City Club forum Wednesday. Cleveland sees 9,000 to 10,000 evictions a year. Of the tenants who appear in housing court, less than 2 percent have a lawyer.