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The hit podcast Serial has turned its attention to Cleveland's Justice Center for its third season. The first two episodes, about the case of a young woman charged with hitting a police officer in a bar fight and a judge who belittles and chastizes the defendants who come before him, have already cast a harsh light on the proceedings there. A local attorney, Rebecca Maurer, is providing a counternarrative and context for the podcast through her blog, SerialLand. </

Cleveland Heights photographer Michael Weil has long been fascinated by the beauty of Lake View Cemetery. So for Lake View's 150th anniversary, he spent 12 late nights shooting the cemetery's monuments under moonlight. "A cloud drifted over its face" [Michael Weil]

George Brant and Laura Kepley have worked on a dozen shows together, but this one is especially close to home. Brant wrote “Into the Breeches” based on the real story of women who kept Cleveland Play House going in the 1940s while men were fighting in WWII. It’s directed by his wife, Laura Kepley, artistic director at Cleveland Play House. “This play, of all of George's plays, feels in some ways the most personal, because he has written a woman at the center who is directing and who is also artistic directing,” Kepley said.

Updated: 10:35 a.m., Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2019. Ohio Department of Health (ODH) officials are warning the public to avoid e-cigarettes and committing millions to help curb vaping as the number of confirmed cases of illness most likely caused by vaping continues to grow. Ohio now has 10 cases of severe, vaping-related respiratory illness and 14 more cases are under investigation, up from three confirmed cases and 11 investigations last week.

Dementia patients are twice as likely to contract COVID-19 and are at a significantly higher risk for severe outcomes and death, according to a new Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) study released Tuesday.

For decades, Club Azteca was a place for meetings and celebrations for Cleveland’s Mexican American communities. But the now-vacant building has been proposed for demolition. Members of Cleveland’s Latinx communities gathered in front of the club Wednesday hoping to stop its destruction. “There is a growing movement nationwide to preserve historic places for communities of color because ours are always just erased while other narratives are saved,” said Veronica Dahlberg, executive director of HOLA Ohio.

The first sign in Cleveland that the nomination of a new U.S. attorney by the Biden Administration would be the target of campaigning was at the end of a January protest about the killing of Tamir Rice.

When Ted Carter announced he was moving from Cleveland to Anchorage, Alaska, he got sarcastic nods. "Everybody said, 'Yeah, right, yeah sure,'" he remembers friends and family saying. If anything, their skepticism drove him on. Within weeks of retiring from his job as a Cleveland public school teacher, he booked a flight. Within months, he packed five bags and was on his way. He arrived in February 2020, in the dark of the far northern night and with the thermometer reading minus 11.

Denied USDA loans and grants for over a century, Black farmers will receive stimulus money. Black farmers won a class action discrimination lawsuit in the '90s, but many didn't get debt relief.

More than 31,000 people have already received a COVID-19 vaccine at the Wolstein Center mass vaccination clinic in Cleveland, Gov. Mike DeWine said Monday. The site is in its second week of operation, and more appointments may open soon. Sometimes people have to refresh the site or check back at a different time to see if any slots have opened. But for people who do not have computer access or the Internet bandwidth to do so, another option might be to visit one of the local libraries this week.