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When Akron police and city staff removed people from a makeshift tent city last Sunday, it rekindled the battle over where people may live when their 'choice' of residence is a fabric tent.

Lee Radzak is retiring this month after 36 years as manager of an iconic northern Minnesota lighthouse. Split Rock on Lake Superior attracts about 2,500 visitors a day during the summer.

The World Health Organization tallied over 112,000 measles cases in the first quarter of 2019 — up more than 300% compared with the same period in 2018.

By M.L. Schultze, WKSU Akron officials and civic leaders are trying to figure out how to develop a network of bike paths and make the city more friendly to cyclists. That means taking on the challenges of Akron's hills and, most of all, its drivers. Matthew Woodyard loves cycling so much he's taken up something called cyclocross. Think of it as a biking form of cross-country-running with a few laps around the track mixed in. He also rides his bike to work up and down the steep hills of the Merriman Valley.

Only a few spots exist today that provide an example of what Cuyahoga County may have looked like 200 years ago. A.B. Williams Memorial Woods is one of them. Home to centuries-old beech and maple trees, it’s a National Natural Landmark and part of the Cleveland Metroparks’ North Chagrin Reservation.

Until Tuesday, this World Cup hadn't seen zero matches in which both teams failed to score. That set a record, but didn't make it any easier to watch France and Denmark play pat-a-cake for 90 minutes.

Remembering Rosanelle Eaton, the North Carolina woman who in her 90s became the face of efforts to overturn laws that civil rights activists said discriminated against black voters.

NPR's David Greene talks to Kenneth Turan, film critic for the Los Angeles Times, about the most-anticipated films for the 2019 Sundance Film Festival.

Kent State University professor Dr. Anne Jefferson is not a federal employee, but she and other science professors and researchers at universities across the Great Lakes say they’re being affected by the partial government shutdown. “We can’t get data, we can’t talk to collaborators, we can’t get answers from program officers,” said Jefferson. She uses data from the National Weather Service and other federal agencies in her hydrology class – teaching her students how to use data to solve water resource management issues.

Colin Kaepernick reached an agreement with the NFL. Sports sociologist Harry Edwards joins NPR's Michel Martin to discuss what it means for the future of protest in the NFL.