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The Akron Pride Festival is bringing sections of the AIDS Memorial Quilt to the Summit County Courthouse this week. The quilt, which was started 30 years…

Columbus City Council votes Monday night on an affordable housing plan that includes a proposal to make landlords give renters alternatives to paying an…

About 70% of people who are facing jail time in Ohio need the services of a public defender, but there’s a shortage of them. Ohio lawmakers are…

The highest-ranking soldier charged in the Abu Ghraib prison scandal is sentenced to eight years in prison for abusing inmates. Staff Sgt. Ivan "Chip" Frederick pleaded guilty Wednesday to eight counts of abusing and humiliating Iraqi detainees. NPR's Jackie Northam reports.

President Bush defends his decision to invade Iraq despite a U.S. weapons inspector's report that the country had no illicit weapons. His rival, Sen. John Kerry, said the president refuses "to face the truth." Hear NPR's Robert Siegel, NPR's Melissa Block and NPR's Scott Horsley.

On Oct. 9, the U.S. Treasury department will roll out new $20 bills featuring new coloring and other background alterations designed to thwart counterfeiters. NPR's Jack Speer reports. See a photo of the new $20 bill.

Journalist David Brinkley, whose career paralleled much of the evolution of American television news coverage, dies of complications from a fall at age 82. Brinkley first gained fame in the 1960s co-anchoring NBC's evening news program with Chet Huntley; he later hosted ABC's This Week with David Brinkley. Hear Reuven Frank, former executive vice-president of NBC News.

Five acclaimed American conductors and composers — from Pulitzer Prize winners Jennifer Higdon and David Lang to the Atlanta Symphony's Robert Spano — pick their favorite homegrown symphonic works.

Police did not immediately identify any suspects or possible motives for the shooting that happened outside a bar late Monday.

Franklin County's indoor mask advisory was lifted on Friday due to a decline in COVID cases.