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Adam Nice, along with George Marshall Jenkins and Nick Hill are keeping the sound of the 90s alive with their band A. M. Nice - and their new album End...

Kids living near Joy Park Community Center in East Akron got a chance to try out the city’s first splash pad. With temperatures around 90 degrees...

After hitting Florida's Atlantic coast early Sunday, a weaker Hurricane Frances crawls across Florida, with sustained winds above 90 mph. The huge storm is moving slowly and is likely to create significant flooding. Hear NPR's Liane Hansen and NPR's Jon Hamilton.

A House committee has voted to call on President Bush to declare that the slaughter of Armenians by Ottoman Turks 90 years ago was genocide. Turkey and the Bush administration worked unsuccessfully to defeat the resolution, but the battle is not over.

The Cleveland Museum of Natural History’s Kingsville Swamp property in Ashtabula County is expanding by an additional 28 acres of forested habitat, with the help of The Western Reserve Land Conservancy. The Kingsville Swamp Extension will serve as a buffer for the museum’s nearby 90-acre parcel of swampland. The purchase includes 5.5 acres of wildlife habitat that has become increasingly rare in Ohio.

Some of the cost variations from a UnitedHealthcare database are startling. For treating a basic asthma episode, cases in the 10th percentile of distribution cost $98 each while those in the 90th percentile the cost was $1,535 per case.

President Bush orders the CIA to increase by 50 percent the number of CIA analysts and spies. The order also calls for a doubling of the number of CIA officers proficient in critical languages such as Arabic. The agency has 90 days to come up with a budget and a plan. Hear NPR's Mary Louise Kelly and NPR's Renee Montagne.

Heather Lenz became frustrated while studying art history at Kent State University in the 90s. “There were these two-inch thick text books from which we learned the history of art, and after I got through Art History I and II, I think I had maybe learned about, perhaps, five women artists,” Lenz said. She went on to learn about Yayoi Kusama in her sculpture class. Feeling inspired by the artist, Lenz’s interest grew into a passion to share Kusama’s story with broader audiences.

If you like the idea of a little poetry with your news Pulitzer Prize winner Rita Dove has you covered. The Akron-born poet is currently the poetry editor for the New York Times Magazine. Back in the 90s Dove was the first African-American to be named United State Poet Laureate. Next weekend she is honored with the lifetime achievement award for the Cleveland Arts Prize. On her job as poetry editor for New York Times Magazine

More than 90,000 tickets have been sold for the game that will be played between the Columbus Blue Jackets and the Detroit Red Wings.