Researchers at the Cleveland Clinic have discovered evidence of the growth of new neurons in adult human brains. The findings were published today in the British neurology journal Brain. (more )

The City of Cleveland is looking at a new wave of cost cutting to keep the city out of the red. Today, Mayor Frank Jackson outlined a plan that includes more energy efficiencies, fewer hirings, and less overtime. (more )

Cleveland's "working man" comedian Drew Carey is returning to his hometown to take an unlikely role. He's narrating Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" with the Cleveland Orchestra Saturday. Carey expects to draw a few unintentional laughs and maybe talk baseball at a local bar. (more )

Students, business people, parents and educators ran the gamut Wednesday night in offering ideas on how to overhaul public education in Ohio. Their audience was Governor Ted Strickland, who was holding the second in his series of twelve education-reform forums across the state at Akron's North High School. (more )

Four years ago, Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry's campaign practically ignored Ohio's rural areas. Kerry lost the state to George W. Bush by about 2 percent of the vote, and that cost him the White House. This year, Senator Barack Obama's Ohio campaign strategy includes pushing into the state's conservative, rural counties. WKSU's Kevin Niedermier visited some rural areas to find out what it will take for a black candidate with an exotic name to win those votes. (more )

Northeast Ohio's military veterans had a chance today to do some one-stop shopping for employment and benefit information. Cuyahoga Community College held its second annual Veterans Resource Fair at the downtown Cleveland campus. The event's organizers say the need is growing with the ongoing conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. (more )

After weeks of speculation, the Ohio Republican Party has named its choice for Ohio Attorney General. (more )

A key player in the criminal case involving millions of dollars in subprime loans in northeast Ohio is pleading guilty to fraud charges. She's also agreed to cooperate in the case against her brother. (more )

Two Akron health rivals are partners in a new hospital opening in the city next month. (more )

The outgoing president and dean of the Northeastern Ohio Universities Colleges of Medicine says she's optimistic about the future of the region's only public medical school. And Dr. Lois Nora says the school can better serve the health needs of Northeast Ohio in many ways. (more )

On the 40th anniversary of the Glenville riots a black man running for president speaks of hope. But despair grips much of Cleveland's inner city where random shootings ended three lives in the last month. Those deaths as well as recent controversy over police shootings and this month's killing of a police officer evoke a part of our region's most troubling history.

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The Akron Beacon Journal's year-long exploration of pressure on the middle class turned this week to healthcare, in part through the story of the Gurbis family. Christine and her mother Mary Kay Gurbis joined WKSU's M.L. Schultze to talk further of the emotional and financial pressures that come with serious illness in America ... (more )

Ohio's first natural burial cemetery will be opening next month in a nature preserve in Stark County. Officials say Foxfield Preserve will preserve land, while offering families a different kind of final resting ground. (more )

The man accused of fatally shooting Twinsburg police officer Josh Miktarian during a traffic stop has been indicted. (more )

With mortgage problems, inflation, a recession and unemployment ascending on the list of American's concerns, health care has lost some of its standing. But in its latest examination of the squeeze on the middle class, the Akron Beacon Journal found health care remains an issue that weaves through many of the others. (more )

The Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority is formalizing plans to cut services and increase rates. (more )

Sharp words were flying today between Akron's law director and petitioners seeking to let voters decide on a plan to privatize the city's sewers. (more )