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The guitarist, bandleader and songwriter Eddie Van Halen died on Tuesday. He was 65. NPR remembers his life and legacy.

Updated: 2:10 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2020 The Ashtabula River is on its way to being removed from a list of areas of concern for environmental degradation, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler said Wednesday during a visit to Cleveland for an update on Lake Erie and the surrounding watershed.

The pandemic has altered many arts activities, but painting plein air is one pastime largely unchanged. “It sort of helps to feed your soul,” said Betty Siska, who organizes a group of local artists. “Especially because everyone’s lives have changed and there's so many restrictions on what we used to do before COVID hit.”

The 19th Amendment, granting women the right to vote, was ratified 100 years ago — Aug. 18, 1920. ideastream’s Ida Lieszkovszky spoke with past and present leaders of the League of Women Voters of Greater Cleveland — including Susan Murnane, a historian and past chapter co-president, and Catherine LaCroix, the Greater Cleveland League’s current co-president—to reflect on 100 years of voting rights and fights.

Small music venues in the US are looking for a lifeline — and a new bill in Congress called the Restart Act might be it. Advocates say the future of independent clubs relies on government relief.

A new report found some people may pay about $13,000 for a bypass heart surgery at one hospital, but another Ohio hospital may charge them hundreds of thousands of dollars more for the same procedure. Policy researchers at the Cleveland-based Center for Community Solutions compiled price data for six common medical procedures at Ohio’s 206 hospitals.

Nursing homes across Ohio are starting to vaccinate residents and employees with the new COVID-19 vaccine. Pleasantview Care Center in Parma started vaccinating today, and Gov. Mike DeWine stopped there Friday morning to watch via livestream as the first employee received a shot. “This is the day we have been waiting for since this pandemic started,” DeWine said.

An Ohio State University researcher is looking into ways news media can address the spread of misinformation about the COVID-19 vaccine, with a boost from a $450,000 grant as part of Google’s work to create resources for covering the pandemic. The general public has better access to health information and is more informed overall than during previous pandemics and major disease outbreaks, OSU Political Science Assistant Professor Thomas Wood said. But that hasn’t stopped the spread of misinformation.

Ohio Republican Rep. Anthony Gonzalez’s vote in favor of impeaching President Donald Trump Wednesday went against the majority of his party, and could ultimately cost him the support of some constituents. Unlike typical legislative actions, an impeachment vote garners more attention from constituents, said Case Western Reserve University Associate Professor of Political Science Justin Buchler.

Officials at the Cuyahoga County Jail say the surge in coronavirus cases across Ohio hasn’t similarly affected the jail population. But to keep COVID-19 out of the jail, those charged with misdemeanors will not be sent to jail, except in cases of domestic violence. According to Cuyahoga County Administrator of Corrections Ronda Gibson, there is not yet a similar agreement with the City of Cleveland about who can be brought to the jail. As of Tuesday, there were three confirmed cases of COVID-19 among the 1,458 inmates at the jail in Downtown Cleveland.