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Cleveland Jazz Orchestra launches its new season with a history lesson featuring music by John Lennon, Carole King and Jimmy Webb, which help tell the story of a pivotal year in U.S. "We celebrate 1968, which is really an iconic year in American history in terms of post-war politics and also some of the music from the late 60s. It’s a period in jazz that’s quite interesting, we just thought that this was the time to bring it to light,” said Cleveland Jazz Orchestra artistic director Paul Ferguson.

Updated 4:01 p.m., Aug. 23, 2019 Ohio Department of Health (ODH) officials are now asking doctors and hospitals to report any cases of patients with serious respiratory problems that could be connected to vaping to their local health department.

The Cuyahoga County Jail is slowly making progress according to the Cuyahoga County council members who received an update on the troubled facility Tuesday. A new food service vendor specializing in serving corrections facilities has been selected and Metro Health will handle all medical issues – including mental health evaluations – for county inmates. Jail officials expect both services to be completely outsourced by the end of October.

Many of us remember exactly what we were doing on September 11th, 2001. But imagine if at the time of the terrorist attacks you were on a plane? In the hours following the attacks, thousands of international travelers were diverted from their airline destinations to the small town of Gander, Newfoundland, in Canada.

Native Americans are often portrayed in the media as living on a reservation or as historical figures in the old West. This year's winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for fiction, Tommy Orange, wants his readers to know that many Native Americans inhabit a place much more familiar - the city. His novel, "There, There," charts a contemporary group of Native Americans living and working in his hometown of Oakland, California.

Since the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol Building, extreme groups and militias across the United States – and how to respond to them – are getting increased attention.

The Cleveland Division of Police’s (CDP) use of force reporting and community engagement before and during the May 30 social justice protest in Downtown Cleveland are under scrutiny by the federal monitor overseeing the city’s police reform efforts. In a review of 29 officers’ use of force reports from May 30, the monitor found officers didn’t record the quantity of non-lethal munitions that were fired, making it hard to evaluate whether excessive force was used.

The quadrennial Infrastructure Report Card from the American Society of Civil Engineers is an improvement from the D-plus four years ago but shows federal investment is still lacking.

Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose this week placed the Summit County Board of Elections under administrative supervision and blocked the reappointment of one board member, citing failures in the 2020 election and prior years. Those failures include errors in the removal of dead residents from the voter rolls. Over the last few months, the board has been investigating how it failed to catch – and then counted – a ballot cast in the name of one woman who died before the November election.

Millions of Texans are without power, heat and water. NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Mayor Michael Evans of Mansfield, who shares how his neighbors are enduring the aftermath of the historic storm.