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From Renaissance still lifes of fruit to Andy Warhol's soup cans, there is a long tradition of artists celebrating food. But here in Northeast Ohio, there is a food-and-art collaboration unlike any other.

Former Republican Ohio Congressman Ralph Regula passed away Wednesday. He was 92. Regula served 18 terms on Capitol Hill spanning seven presidencies. In a 2012 interview, he recalled travelling the world with his fellow Congressmen. “I remember Moscow, and Gorbachev was head. Deng Xiaoping, in China. And Australia we went. I never could have dreamed of it when I was a boy on a farm.”

It was a football season unlike any other in 1993, the year hometown hero Bernie Kosar was let go. Head coach Bill Belichick blamed Kosar's "diminishing skills" as the reason for saying goodbye to the last Browns quarterback to lead the team to the brink of the Super Bowl.

The president says he won't recertify the 2015 nuclear deal, giving Congress the option to reimpose sanctions and rewrite parts of the agreement.

A new report assessing the use of body cameras raises concerns that police departments could misuse the video footage. As ideastream’s Mark Urycki reports, police departments in Akron, Columbus, Cincinnati, and Cleveland are among those distributing body cameras to its officers. Civil rights organizations The Leadership Conference and Upturn have issued a scorecard measuring 8 concerns about body cameras and not many departments meet their standards.

At the Cleveland Museum of Art’s “The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s” visitors view the exhibit while the music that gives the era its name plays in the background. So what was playing in the foreground while the Jazz Age was actually taking place in Cleveland in the 1920s? To find out, we asked Joe Mosbrook. He’s the author of the 1993 book “Cleveland Jazz History” and host of a weekly radio feature of the same name that’s aired on WCPN since 1988.

The monitor overseeing Cleveland’s police reform agreement says the city is “not on the right track” in reducing a backlog of citizen complaints. City officials, the monitoring team and the U.S. attorney’s office agreed at a federal court hearing today to come up with a new plan by mid-December for cutting down the backlog. “The city needs to take this seriously,” monitor Matthew Barge said at the hearing. He later added, “This has been festering for a very long time.”

A new report by a local development organization says Northeast Ohio's economy is becoming more diverse. The report's author, says trends behind that evolution are both encouraging and concerning.

Lorain City Schools Superintendent Dr. Jeff Graham resigned from his position Wednesday, according to district CEO David Hardy Jr., who said they have “shared correspondence” over the issue. “I want to commend Jeff for the time and energy he put into this district and I wish him the best in everything that he does,” Hardy said. Lorain City Schools are under the control of an academic distress commission and CEO as defined by state law. The structure gives Hardy full control of district policy, personnel, and budgetary decisions under the guidance of the commission.

Beginning with Screamin' Jay Hawkins belting out 'I Put a Spell on You' in 1984's Stranger Than Paradise, Cuyahoga Falls native Jim Jarmusch made it clear that music wasn't going to be just part of his films. It's at the very center of the stories he tells on screen. Which is easy to understand given Jarmusch's passion for music.