The Lorain County Urban League provides a new violence interruption program with a public health approach to solving gun violence.

The Eddie Eagle cartoon, produced by the National Rifle Association in the late 1980s, is being used in Cleveland, Akron and cities across the country to try to teach children gun safety. But research shows it's ineffective.

Law enforcement touted dozens of gun arrests in 2023, many for selling machine gun conversion devices.

In the program, "credible messengers" - past gun crime offenders - work with individuals in the community to find peaceful alternatives to conflict.

Since the Neighborhood Safety Fund's rollout in fall 2023, the city has granted two million dollars to 43 community groups.

4-H offers a shooting sports program to Ohio kids, according to officials. Kids can also partake in the sport at 4-H camps across the state, according to officials.

University Hospitals Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital's Antifragility Initiative treats young gun violence victims' trauma to reduce retaliation and re-injury.

National gun violence numbers have fallen since the pandemic, but cities like Cleveland are bucking the trend with increased firearm deaths in 2023.

A Tuesday afternoon march protesting police violence in Cleveland Heights and the killing of Christian Thomas ended up at city hall, where Mayor Kahlil came out to answer protesters' questions.

Domestic violence awareness advocates are calling for more attention to the dangers of firearms and intimate partner violence after a Cleveland reporter was shot in Lakewood.

The rate at which Black babies in Summit County died before reaching their first birthdays dropped in 2020, according to data presented Wednesday during Akron's Health Equity Summit.

Only recently have researchers begun to understand the connection between trauma from viewing racial incidents in the media and poor health outcomes among Black Americans.

Several studies have drawn a connection between living in neighborhoods that were subject to redlining, the historic discriminatory mortgage lending practices instituted in the 1930s, and an increased likelihood that a resident will suffer from asthma today. Experts say the historic systems and structures which pushed many African Americans into redlined communities affect many Cleveland and Akron residents who live in the Ohio Valley Asthma Belt today.

Cleveland's St. Vincent Charity Medical Center on Wednesday announced it will discontinue inpatient and emergency room services in November.

New research is shedding light on the true origins of the redlining maps that led to mortgage discrimination in predominately Black neighborhoods. Many people have mistakenly pointed to maps created by the Home Owners Loan Corporation in the 1940s. Researchers say, however, that other maps created by banks, insurance companies and the FHA were truly behind the racist banking policies known as redlining.

A Cuyahoga County Common Pleas judge has pressed pause in a court case between University Hospitals and the city of Bedford sparked by the hospital system's decision to cut emergency and other services at UH Bedford.

The Alzheimer's Association is raising awareness of the effects of structural racism on cognition levels, especially among Black people.

The coalition tasked in the wake of George Floyd’s murder with alleviating the damaging effects of racism in Cleveland has hired a project manager and released a timeline of its work.

On Monday, MetroHealth held a grand opening for its new affordable housing complex, Vía Sana, which they say is a way to address health disparities in Cleveland.

Black people make up just 13% of Ohio’s population, but Black pregnant people make up nearly half of abortions performed in the state, an Ideastream analysis of figures from the U.S. Census and the Ohio Department of Health. That also means that limits on the procedure disproportionately affect Black Ohioans.