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By Veronica Volk Julie Cataldo is strapped into a harness as she sits in her wheelchair just a few feet from the edge of the Erie Canal. A hydraulic lift hoists her from the chair and swings her out over the water. The lift lowers her into a kayak, and its operator adjusts her seat. This is Cataldo’s second time in a single kayak, and in a few minutes, she’s cruising alone down the Canal near Rochester, N.Y.

Ohio public officials offered prayers, condolences and calls for a renewed focus on weapons after a gunman killed more than 50 people and injured hundreds in Las Vegas. U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown called such shootings “one of the saddest aspects of our culture now.”

The U.S. and NATO are staging their largest military exercises since the end of the Cold War, and they're doing it in countries of 3 former members of the Warsaw Pact: Romania, Bulgaria and Hungary.

More than 800 artifacts, some of which have never before been seen by the public, are now on display at a new exhibit called “Cleveland Starts Here.” It’s at the Western Reserve Historical Society, which is rebranding itself as the Cleveland History Center.

Delegates to the annual international climate meeting held by the U.N. are struggling to forge a unified approach to slowing climate change. Meanwhile, emissions of greenhouse gases keep rising.

The latest data on deaths by gun violence shows how the U.S. ranks among rich nations and lower income countries.

What was once home to golfers is now a spot for birders and dog walkers to enjoy the outdoors, right across from Beachwood Place in Lyndhurst. Six years ago the non-profit Conservation Fund purchased Acacia Country Club and deeded the land to Cleveland Metroparks with a mission to return the 155 acres to its natural state. So how is the process coming? Perhaps no one can better answer that question that Stuart and Jeanne Pearl.

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.