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The nonprofit Cleveland Tenants Organization formed more than 40 years ago to help renters in the city resolve disputes with landlords. This week, the group announced that it will shut down. Money isn’t coming in like it used to, and the board of directors no longer saw a way forward.

By Nick Evans, WOSU The Columbus suburb of Westerville is reeling after two of its police officers were shot and killed responding to a 911 hang-up emergency call over the weekend. Police have charged 30-year-old Quentin Lamar Smith with two counts of aggravated murder in the deaths of the two veteran officers.

The U.S. has the 31st highest rate in the world: 3.85 deaths due to gun violence per 100,000 people in 2016. That was eight times higher than the rate in Canada, for example.

Since the beginning of 2018, 18 shootings have taken place on school property across the country. That total comes from the gun-control advocacy group Everytown for Gun Safety.

The flu season started early this year and is already widespread throughout the country and intense in dozens of states. But it's not too late to get that flu shot, officials say.

Live music is one of the favorite activities of residents at Menorah Park nursing home in Beachwood. 81-year-old Elaine Miller has been living here for nearly 2 years. It took a fall and an injury a few years back to spur her realization that she would soon need to rely on nursing home care as she aged. "I couldn’t imagine myself in long-term care," Miller said. "But that’s what it came down to. I can’t take care of myself. I can’t go to the bathroom on my own, I can’t shower on my own, I can’t do any of those things on my own."

In a time when anyone can snap a picture on a smart phone some Northeast Ohioans are getting their pictures taken the old-fashioned way. Once a week for the past decade, the Pretentious Artists of Cleveland have used paint, pencil and pastel to capture hundreds of local faces.

Artwork doesn't go on display right away when the Cleveland Museum of Art acquires it. The first stop is the conservation department. Some pieces move through quickly, and others require work. Yi-Hsia Hsiao and her colleague speak to one another in Chinese as they work on smoothing out the creases on a wet piece of patterned, silk spread on the table in the Asian painting lab on a recent afternoon. “I’m an art doctor. I save art[‘s] life,” said Hsaio, an assistant conservator of Chinese paintings.

Some years ago, violinist Charles Weatherbee made a simple, but profound statement during an interview. Carpe Diem String Quartet was to perform at the…

It took several years, but Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine says the the Bureau of Criminal Investigation (BCI) has finished analyzing nearly 14,000 rape kits that had languished untested on the shelves of law encorfement agencies throughout the state. "It's imporant to stress that these are more than just boxes of evidence," said DeWine, at a news conference at a BCI forensics lab in Richfield on Friday. "When you look at them each one represents a person, each one represents a victim."