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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."

Fifty years ago, the Alabama Telephone Co. heard AT&T was creating a three-digit emergency number. So it decided to beat AT&T to the punch — and made the first 911 call in the town Haleyville.

Prime Minister Viktor Orban is expected to win in his country's elections this month. But critics say his success comes from his having adopted similar policies to the far right.

Updated: 3:20 p.m. Cincinnati Council Wednesday set in motion a plan for investigating complaints of misconduct against City Manager Harry Black. It...

Spring has been slow to come to the Midwest this year — so one Milwaukee radio station decided to make light of it and re-upped their Christmas playlists for a day.

Dozens of Syrians choked to death after a suspected chemical attack on a rebel-held suburb of Damascus. Aid groups are blaming the government of president Bashar al-Assad.