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Immigration is one of the more contentious topics in our country today, but this week we’ve been bringing authentic voices with many perspectives to the fore. We’ve used Painesville, in Lake County, as a way into the discussion. Nearly a quarter of the Painesville population identifies as Hispanic or Latino, and some are in the country without legal status…like Rosie.

In 2011, Manal al-Sharif filming herself driving in a country where women are banned from getting behind the wheel. Driving, she says, is "a way to emancipate women. It gives them so much liberty."

Trump U. was not a "university." The goal was to sell potential "buyers" on escalating packages, up to $35,000. Seminars included showing buyers how to capitalize on the housing crisis.

For about 20 years starting in 1990, Brio magazine was the evangelical answer to Seventeen. Focus on the Family is bringing it back, saying it sees a renewed need among teens for alternative voices.

EDDINGS: In Cleveland, there are two men who’ve had a front seat – literally – to Ohio’s surging opioid epidemic. 60 year old Chico Lewis and 44 year old Roger Lowe are the sole outreach workers for Circle Health Service’s syringe exchange program, the first and oldest such program in Ohio. Weekday mornings, on Cleveland’s West Side, and weekday afternoons on the city’s East Side, these two recovering alcoholics sit inside a white van and dispense clean syringes to intravenous drug users. Their one for one syringe exchange helps addicts avoid HIV AIDS and other blood

What, exactly, is cholera? And why can't we stop it?

Popular DNA ancestry tests don't always find what people expect. That is because of how DNA rearranges itself when egg meets sperm — and the quirks of genetic databases.

Mexicans, Central Americans and Haitians make up most people removed from the U.S. But year-end figures analyzed by NPR show that deportations to the rest of the world have jumped 24 percent.

Attorneys for drug companies and local governments from around the country are set to meet in Cleveland for what a federal judge is calling “preliminary settlement discussions” in lawsuits over the opioid crisis. Judge Dan Aaron Polster has scheduled a pretrial conference Jan. 31. In a recent court filing, he wrote that he’s also invited state attorneys general to attend. At issue are suits against drug makers and distributors brought by cities and counties from Wisconsin to West Virginia to Ohio. Southern Ohio An Early Bellwether

A record 257 arts and cultural organizations in Cuyahoga County will share nearly $12-million in funding from a cigarette tax, this coming year. Who gets what was announced in a public meeting Monday night. But, not everybody is celebrating, because that tax income is on a steady downward trend. The Cleveland Orchestra is getting about a 26 percent cut in funding due to dwindling cigarette sales. Speaking for the Musical Arts Association which governs the Orchestra, David Hooker says the cut took his organization by surprise.