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Lorain County's five-year average infant morality rate in 2018 was eight deaths per 1,000 live births. In 2011, it was more than twice that. “21.7 [per 1,000 live births] was our five-year rolling average, which is a pretty high rate," said the county's health commissioner Dave Covell. "Our average rate among white babies was 7.2, so you can see there's a huge discrepancy.”

Since 2006, Ohio has provided publicly funded vouchers for students to attend private or religious schools. Now the number of students eligible to get those vouchers is about to see a huge spike. This has educators and legislators in Columbus scrambling. “Morning Edition” host Amy Eddings spoke with ideastream education reporter Jenny Hamel about the possible expansion of the EdChoice voucher program. How does this work and what does it do?

Here are your morning headlines for Tuesday, January 14: Ohio drug overdoses decrease; Chapel Hill Mall facing foreclosure; Cuyahoga County hires law...

Jan Johnson smoked a dozen cigarettes a day for about two decades. "I would go to bingo at least four times out of a week, and at bingo it was just the thing to do," she said. When her apartment building went smoke free in 2018, she knew something would have to change. She saw a bulletin board for a research study testing whether a text messaging program could help people stop smoking and decided to sign up.

Veteran Cleveland radio and television personality Mike Olszewski found out what an impression the hosts of Cleveland children’s television shows made, during a conversation he had with a man who grew up in Northeast Ohio. Olszewski asked the man if he could remember the name of his eighth grade principal. The man couldn’t recall it, but he knew the answer to the next question: Who is Barnaby's butterfly? “Oh, that was Cicero,” the man quickly replied, Olszewski said.

Attorney and small-business owner Angela Okafor made history recently as the first immigrant and first person of color elected to the City Council in Bangor, Maine.

During this theater season in Northeast Ohio, three plays appearing on three stages were all penned by the same playwright. Born and raised in Detroit, Dominique Morisseau's plays deal with the African-American experience, from "Paradise Blue" about the perils of gentrification to "Pipeline" about funneling African-American males from high-school to prison.

A 400-person, 70-vessel recovery effort is working to minimize the potential environmental damage from a capsized cargo ship off the Georgia coast.

Wildfires are burning in northern and southern California, threatening homes and forcing evacuations. Strong winds expected through the weekend mean conditions could get worse.

In many places there's no requirement to tell a home buyer if a house is at risk of flooding, even as climate change increases that risk. Some hope a new Texas law will be a national model.