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Perhaps you've heard the old adage (and old joke) - "Dying is easy, comedy is hard." That's rung true for Lorain native Ramon Rivas II. He landed his first cable TV special last year but it's taken him years to scrape together any kind of living as a professional comedian. "About a year into [doing] comedy I started treating it like a full-time, non-paying job. It still mostly is, just every once in a while something comes up that gives me a little bit of money," Rivas said.

The artists behind “Don’t Be Still” want their audience to take the message literally. They did. “I was painting in my studio one day, and I heard dimly in the background about pay equality for women and the need for legislation,” said artist John W. Carlson. “I was just, ‘did I just hear that?’” The Cleveland painter teamed up with filmmaker Robert Banks to challenge gender stereotypes and inequities through their artwork.

Typically, the scheme works like this: you get a call from someone claiming to be with the IRS, who then claims that you owe a bunch of money. "They tell you that you didn't pay taxes or you didn't file on time, and there's a warrant out for you," said Sheryl Harris, Director of Cuyahoga County's Department of Consumer Affairs, which is holding a series of events this week aimed at spreading awareness of various scams. "They're really scary calls."

A string quintet performing Mozart is certainly not something everyone expected to hear at Summit County Probate Court in the middle of February, but it was a welcome break for many employees and visitors to the courthouse. It’s part of a series called “Decompression Chamber” from Tuesday Musical in Akron.

If you think our nation is more divided over political issues than it has been in a long time, Jill Lepore says you are right. “There’s a great deal of political science research that attempts to quantify this question that looks at ways to measure political polarization and those suggest that it is the greatest level of polarization since the Great Depression,” Lepore said.

Manufacturers who make products with steel and aluminum are expected to see their costs rise after the President's tariff goes into effect. But Whirlpool Corporation, which makes washing machines at a plant in Clyde, may come out clean.

Pinkalicous, the little girl with a love for all things pink and creative, and her younger brother, Peter, now have their own TV series.

A shortage of for-sale homes continues to drive up real estate prices statewide. New data from the Ohio Association of Realtors shows the average home sale price in February—about $165,889—was 8.8 percent higher than the same period last year.

The documentary “I Am Evidence” looked at how cities handled testing rape kits that sat shelved for years, and Cleveland played a part. The filmmakers compared different cities’ approaches and resources, and they found Cleveland ahead of some others, particularly with the work of Cuyahoga County's Sexual Assault Kit Task Force.

The Playhouse Square Foundation broke ground Thursday afternoon on what they say is the largest apartment building in downtown Cleveland in the past 40 years. The 35-story Lumen building is the first new residential development for the organization.