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Cleveland City Councilman Basheer Jones is calling for women to undergo firearms training to fight violence against them, including domestic violence. Recent incidents including a video of a woman being beaten outside a gas station are evidence that violence remains a concern, Jones said. “All across the City of Cleveland right now, you’re finding videos of women being attacked,” Jones said. “I believe that unfortunately women have to take it in their own hands.”

The Cuyahoga County Board of Elections is still accepting applications from potential poll workers, despite confusion over emails sent out last week. Susan Love, the editor of the West Life newspaper, said she hadn’t considered becoming a poll worker before. But a month or two ago, she decided to offer her services.

With the registration deadline just days away on Monday, Oct. 5, Ohio House Minority Leader Emilia Sykes (D-Akron) is leading efforts to register Black women voters in Ohio. We Belong Here, a political action committee (PAC) Sykes created earlier this year, has identified roughly 35,000 Black female voters who moved from urban areas to the suburbs but never re-registered in their new location. Sykes and her PAC are targeting those voters with digital ads on Facebook.

Cincinnati Public Schools will begin phasing students back to in-person learning on Oct. 12. Students were originally set to start phasing in this week....

The celebrated soprano died suddenly a year ago, leaving her fans, including one NPR producer, in grief, but with many fond memories.

Two Akron landmarks are getting a new lease on life: The Tangier restaurant and the former Akron Beacon Journal building.

Mexican media reported several deaths from the storm, including children who were swept away by currents during flooding.

The city’s Commission On Black Girls is putting forward a list of recommendations to improve the quality of life for African American girls and women in…

A Cuyahoga County grand jury on Wednesday handed down 10 indictments related to the rioting in Downtown Cleveland on May 30. The 10 people indicted range in age from 18 to 38, with aggravated riot, theft and vandalism the most frequent charges.

More than 500 philanthropic organizations nationwide have signed a letter asking the U.S. Census Bureau to allow more time for the 2020 census, including several local groups, after the bureau recently announced it would end the count a month earlier than planned. Among the Northeast Ohio organizations signed the letter were the Mt. Sinai Health Care Foundation in Cleveland, Cleveland Foundation, Akron Community Foundation and George Gund Foundation.