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Members of the BYO Bag coalition hold up resuable cloth bags to promote their use over single use plastic bags.

Coalition Wants Cincinnati To Encourage Reusable Bag Use

A coalition of environmental and religious groups wants to reduce the number of plastic grocery bags floating around Cincinnati. The B.Y.O. Bag...

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6th-Grader's Note Sheds Light On Hit-And-Run Case

Andrew Sipowicz discovered the front of his red Mustang was dented. He saw a note handwritten by a student who was riding a Buffalo, N.Y., school bus that allegedly hit the car. The note gave details.

On Shawshank and Schubert: How Music Frees Us

There’s an extraordinary scene midway through The Shawshank Redemption that illustrates the power of music to free the soul. It's a good message to…

Miguel Hernandez reads an order slip at El Tejaban Mexican Grill, the family-run restaurant that he has owned with his wife, Rosa Zambrano, for nearly two decades in Richfield, Minn. The couple fears they will need to close their restaurant when their current lease ends, as the business suffered dramatic revenue losses during Operation Metro Surge and has struggled to recover in the months since.

Minneapolis grapples with the impact of Trump's largest immigration crackdown yet

Operation Metro Surge's impact in the Twin Cities can still be felt three months after it ended. Many immigrants are at risk of losing homes and businesses, and some are dealing with mental health challenges.

Jeremy Sander helps his daughter, Jordan, 5, take her temperature with an infrared thermometer at Lodgic Kids Camp in Champaign, Ill.

Working Parents And Closed Schools: The Childcare Struggle During COVID-19

Sierra is in a bind. She and her husband have two children — ages three and nine years old — and they live in Urbana, a college town in east-central...

Atlanta rapper Latto belongs to a lineage of women inspired by Miami icon Trina, whose sexually explicit bars have both challenged gendered double standards and shown their staying power.

'When I changed as a woman, my music changed'

Like her idol Trina two decades earlier, Latto saw her creativity open up when she started rapping explicitly about sex. But with her frankness came harsh new standards to live up to.

Welsh Soprano Gwawr Edwards with Boyce Lancaster on Classical 101

If your only connection to the culture of Wales is Bryn Terfel and Tom Jones, you have a wonderful opportunity to find out more about it this weekend. The…

As Frankie Reyes, Los Angeles-based musician Gabriel Reyes-Whittaker flips Latin standards into something ghostly and new.

Simple Idea, Spooky Result: Latin American Ballads Get A Ghostly Makeover

Frankie Reyes is a Los Angeles-based artist who remakes classic Mexican and other Spanish-language ballads and waltzes using a vintage synthesizer. His new album is called Boleros Valses y Mas.

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