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Updated: Oct. 17, 2019; 10:14 a.m. The Forest City is looking to double down on its moniker with a 10-year, $10 million tree budget. The City of Cleveland on Tuesday pledged to spend $1 million each year for the next 10 years on an effort to increase its tree coverage. New trees would be planted on neighborhood tree lawns, in city-owned cemeteries and parks and on other publicly owned land, said Matt Gray, the city’s chief of sustainability.

Akron’s mayoral candidates faced off Wednesday in a midday debate that was more of a low-key meeting of the minds than raucous political showdown. Akron's incumbent mayor, Democrat Dan Horrigan, and Republican challenger Josh Sines agreed more often than not on Akron’s needs when it comes to tackling homelessness, youth and gun violence, welcoming refugees and next steps to continue economic development.

Comic actor Eddie’s Murphy’s new film tells the story of a Cleveland entertainer who made a name for himself as an unlikely star of the big screen. Rudy Ray Moore was a hit with some African American audiences when he transformed into the movie character “Dolemite.”

After 10 years and more than $7 million, the Cuyahoga Valley National Park finally has a “front door.” The new Boston Mill Visitor Center sits along the Cuyahoga River, the Ohio & Erie Canal and Towpath Trail, and the Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad in Peninsula. It opens to the public at 10 a.m. on Friday, with grand opening activities continuing through the weekend.

"I agree with President Trump on his decision not to take military action against Iran" Carter said. The former president said peace was a choice.

Cleveland City Council passed new lead paint requirements for landlords Wednesday, giving Mayor Frank Jackson’s administration 18 months to develop a citywide program to reduce childhood lead poisoning. The law requires owners of rentals built before 1978 to have their properties inspected for lead hazards every two years. Cleveland’s Building and Housing Department will start enforcing the new rules in March 2021 and require all rentals to be certified as lead safe by 2023. The legislation also doubles the rental registration fee, raising it from $35 to $70.

As it placed high-profile sanctions on Iran's foreign minister, the Trump administration took a quieter action to enable important work in the Iran nuclear deal to continue.

The federal judge overseeing thousands of opioid lawsuits appears poised to approve a pathway for resolving local government claims against the drug industry and dividing settlement dollars nationwide. “There has to be some vehicle to resolve these lawsuits,” U.S. District Judge Dan Aaron Polster said during a Tuesday morning hearing in federal court in Cleveland. Drug companies have not yet settled claims brought against them in federal court, but confidential settlement talks have continued since the start of the multi-district case.

Cuyahoga County Sheriff Clifford Pinkney told county council members he had little say in major decisions at the county jail as the inmate population rose, deaths mounted and investigators launched probes into conditions there.

It has been 22 years since the city of Cleveland hosted Major League Baseball's All-Star Game. On that memorable night in 1997, Indians catcher Sandy Alomar Jr. hit the game-winning home run and was named All-Star MVP. A six-time All-Star during his 11 seasons with Cleveland, Alomar returned to the Indians as first base coach in 2009, a role he still holds today. On the eve of this year's All-Game at Progressive Field, ideastream's Glenn Forbes caught up with Alomar to talk Tribe, but mostly about that magical year of 1997.