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A mentorship program that supports more than 200 students in Cleveland just got an infusion of funding to continue its work at three area high schools. Esperanza—a non-profit educational support program—will use a $20 thousand dollar grant from State Farm to fund their Hispanic Youth Leadership Program. Victor Ruiz, Esperanza’s Executive Director, reports a graduation rate of 97 percent for kids involved in the organization’s programs. Cleveland Metropolitan School District’s rate is 69.1 percent. He says the ‘secret’ is in the relationships.

Wednesday is the 75th anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, and only a few survivors are left from the Japanese attack that led the U.S. to enter World War II.

Predicting the future is hard. Good thing NPR's Claudio Sanchez has a crystal ball.

The accusations against the 76-year-old billionaire who owns casinos in Las Vegas and the Chinese territory of Macau were first published last month by The Wall Street Journal.

The strike, which shuttered classrooms in the state for more than a week, reached a resolution as Gov. Jim Justice, the union and lawmakers all agreed to a 5 percent salary bump for state employees.

On Sunday, Vladimir Putin won the Russian presidential election by a landslide. NPR's Mary Louise Kelly was in Moscow to witness the late-night celebrations of another six years of Putin in power.

The state board of education is launching an investigation into at least one charter school after hearing disturbing testimony from a group of former…

With cooler temperatures hitting Ohio and winter on the horizon, many medical experts say it's time to protect ourselves against the flu. There's a…

The above quote was one of the first things I noticed when I went to you tube to hear a portion of a rehearsal of Higdon's On A Wire. Jennifer Higdon is…

A mother whose teenaged son died at a church camp in Logan County last year has filed a wrongful death lawsuit in Franklin County Common Pleas Court.…