Cleveland

The Cuyahoga River was so polluted, it used to catch fire. Now it's making a comeback

6:00am October 12, 2024

The plight of the river, which empties into Lake Erie at Cleveland, helped inspire the Clean Water Act. Now it attracts kayakers and anglers and could soon be removed from an EPA watchlist.

Carlos Moreno, a Franco-Colombian urbanist, has been helping spread the idea of 15-minute cities — where people can access key things in their life within a short walk, bike ride or transit ride of their home. But the climate solution is seeing huge challenges, including conspiracy theories.

It's a global climate solution — if it can get past conspiracy theories and NIMBYs

4:33pm October 08, 2023

by Julia Simon

The "15-minute city" is an urban planning concept that aims to increase quality of life and reduce planet-heating pollution. But it faces obstacles, including conspiracy theories.

Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson throws a pass during practice at the team's training facility in May in Ohio. The NFL suspended Watson for six games on Monday for violating its personal conduct policy following accusations of sexual misconduct

Deshaun Watson is suspended for 6 games over sexual misconduct

1:58pm August 01, 2022

by Bill Chappell

The NFL confirmed the Browns quarterback is being suspended for violating the league's personal conduct policy following accusations of sexual misconduct made against him by two dozen women in Texas.

A 4.0 earthquake jostled communities near Cleveland on Monday.

National

Cleveland Area Rattled By 4.0 Magnitude Earthquake

8:05pm June 11, 2019

by Dani Matias

Nearly 9,000 Ohio residents reported feeling tremors because of an earthquake centered under Lake Erie. Since 1823, the northeastern Ohio seismic zone has had "moderately frequent earthquakes."

A Frontier Airlines plane at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport in 2014. On Tuesday, passengers were delayed in Tampa after six passengers on a Frontier flight out of Cleveland became sick.

National

Was Something In The Water? Cleveland Seeks Answers After Air Passengers Fall Ill

4:26pm January 02, 2019

by Amy Held

Six passengers were stricken on the Tampa-bound flight, prompting Cleveland airport officials to shut down and clean water fountains.

Bernie Moreno at his Mercedes-Benz dealership in a Cleveland suburb. Moreno is an evangelist for blockchain, the technology behind the cryptocurrency Bitcoin. He wants to turn Cleveland into a tech hub with blockchain at the core.

From Believeland To Blockland — Cleveland Aims To Be A Tech Hub

5:54am November 23, 2018

by Jeff St. Clair

Some civic leaders in Cleveland want the local economy to embrace blockchain, the technology behind bitcoin. It will only work if the average citizen grasps what this new cryptocurrency is all about.

Queue Listen Now

Music & Culture

Tell 'Em Where You're From: The Regional Anthems That Move Us

10:10am July 26, 2018

Some sprout from the cities and states they rep for; others are outsiders, held up in pride by a sister community. NPR's American Anthem series continues with a list of place-based bangers.

The temperature in a cryogenic tank at a fertility clinic in suburban Cleveland fluctuated earlier this month, rendering some 4,000 eggs and embryos nonviable.

Ohio Fertility Clinic Says 4,000 Eggs And Embryos Destroyed When Freezer Failed

12:42pm March 28, 2018

by Laurel Wamsley

The hospital system said its investigation suggested that the problems may have been caused by human error, mechanical failure or both. "We failed our fertility clinic patients," said its CEO.

Conductor James Levine, rehearsing with the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Paris in September 2007.

Music & Culture

New Details Emerge In Abuse Allegations Against Conductor James Levine

11:11pm March 02, 2018

by Anastasia Tsioulcas

On Friday the Boston Globe published allegations accusing of the conductor of sexual, emotional and physical abuse in the 1960s and '70s, in behavior that former students describe as "cult-like."

Tomiko Shine holds up a picture of Tamir Rice during a 2014 protest in Washington, D.C. Timothy Loehmann, the police officer who shot and killed the 12-year-old boy, was fired Tuesday for answers he provided on his personal history statement during the hi

National

Officer Who Killed Tamir Rice Fired For Rule Violations On Job Application

3:48pm May 30, 2017

by Colin Dwyer

Timothy Loehmann, the Cleveland police officer who shot and killed the 12-year-old in 2014, omitted key details "on his personal history statement." His partner was suspended for 10 days.