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There is an epidemic of violence against hospital staff in the U.S., especially in emergency departments, said Cleveland Clinic CEO Tom Mihaljevic at his annual State of the Clinic address Wednesday. “Daily, literally daily, we are exposed to violent outbursts,” he said to reporters after the address. Speaking to hundreds of Clinic employees, Mihaljevic said the hospital system confiscated more than 30,000 weapons last year in its Northeast Ohio facilities.

I've been wanting to talk to historian Steve Conn about his 2014 book, Americans Against the City, ever since I read this line in it: "We are a nation reliant on the engines of our cities, populated with people who do not like cities very much."

On a recent Saturday afternoon in Parma, members of the Ukrainian Bandurist Chorus gathered for an all-day rehearsal. The group consists of about 50 singers and players from across North America, including a dozen men from Northeast Ohio. Many members flew or drove to Ohio for the occasion. “They’re various ages,” said Oleh Mahlay, the conductor and artistic director. “We have someone that’s 14, who just started with us, and we have gentlemen that are in their mid-70s.”

After more than one hundred years of population instability, the lake sturgeon may be on its way back to the Maumee River and Lake Erie. Saturday, The Toledo Zoo and other organizations released 3,000 baby lake sturgeon into the Maumee River. Hundreds of people celebrated at a riverside release party, including Emma Johnson, whose biology class pulled together $25 to sponsor a fish. “When we found out about the event, [our biology teacher] said, ‘everyone bring in a dollar, we’re buying a sturgeon!’” said Johnson. “Everyone got super excited.”

Award-winning playwright Dominique Morisseau's “Sunset Baby” opens Dobama Theatre’s 2018-2019 season tonight. The show is the first of a series of six plays, all by female playwrights. When artistic director Nathan Motta began to choose the shows for the season, he didn’t go in with the intention of selecting works by only women writers.

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.

The Chicago Teachers Union voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike, union officials announced Thursday. The Chicago Public Schools CEO says the offer of a 16% raise over five years is generous.