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With a school shooting about once every week in America, a greater number of districts and colleges are training staff to use more active responses to gunmen, including fighting back.

Sixty years ago on Christmas Eve, Judy Charest met Harold Hogue and his co-worker, Jack Knox, because the two men were in the right place at the right time.

By Angelica Morrison Final part of a series on President Trump's budget On the shores of the lower Niagara River, about 10 miles from Niagara Falls, a group of biologists from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service prepare to examine the largest fish species in the Great Lakes region – the lake sturgeon. "They were nearly wiped out, mostly due to over-fishing," says biologist Dimitry Gorsky . "We have this remnant population that survived the over-fishing and habitat destruction."

Long before sisters Nora and Delia Ephron worked together on "Sleepless in Seattle" and “You’ve Got Mail” they shared stories at the family dinner table with their screenwriter parents, Henry and Phoebe, in Hollywood. “They brought a writer’s sensibility into the home,” Delia Ephron said. “I think the unspoken message was always: You’ll be writers.” Both Delia and her late sister, Nora, carried on the family’s legacy writing books, plays, screenplays and articles.

The Cleveland mayor’s office says about 500 city workers would see their pay rise to a minimum of $15 an hour under a proposal by Mayor Frank Jackson. Jackson, who is running for a fourth term this year, said in a news release that the increase would apply both to union and to non-union workers. It would go into effect April 2018. Some workers represented by the Service Employees International Union Local 1 would see their pay increase, the union said. Exactly how many wasn’t clear. Local 1’s membership includes janitors at the airport and city buildings.

Once embraced by cities for its beautiful white flowers, disease resistance and ability to grow just about anywhere, the Callery pear is now considered a nuisance due to its smell and invasive nature.

A months-long effort to clean up the site of an illegal dumping ground in East Cleveland will be complete sometime in February, according to state environmental and health officials, but the cost will be at least 50 percent higher than originally planned. The Ohio Controlling Board on Monday approved an additional $3.2 million to clean up the former site of Arco recycling, bringing the total cost to around $9 million.

More than two months after Hurricane Maria devastated the island of Puerto Rico, a handful of the Big 8 school districts in Ohio say they’re seeing an influx of students in their public schools. The Cleveland Metropolitan School District is reporting the largest number of Puerto Rican students enrolled so far this school year, with more than 190 families seeking help since the Sept. 20th storm.

When Cleveland was chosen as the home for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986, but not as the host city for the induction ceremony, many Northeast Ohioans were unhappy. But, the times they are a changin.’ More recently, the city has hosted the event every three years, and starting this April the inductions will be alternating between Cleveland and New York. Rock Hall CEO Greg Harris said the induction ceremony is a complicated affair with a lot of moving parts. Does that mean hosting it more frequently would put more pressure on his staff?

By Angelica Morrison