The Aug. 29 police shooting followed a father-son argument inside a Cleveland Heights home.

Crime is down 13% compared to the last three summers.

Local hospitals say recent cuts in federal funding are undermining local efforts to screen patients about their potential risks for gun violence.

The mass shooting occurred in East Akron at a birthday party. Lateris Cook, 27, of Akron was killed. Akron police are still investigating the shooting.

On June 25, the DOJ launched a Cleveland-based center to prevent gun violence in Northeast Ohio by tracking the weapons used in those crimes.

Mayor Shammas Malik canceled 11 events Friday evening after city council members sent him a letter calling it "irresponsible" to hold Juneteenth events so soon after a recent mass shooting on the city's east side.

The city of Akron worked with several nonprofit agencies to start the fund. The Akron Community Foundation and United Way have already contributed $50,000.

Akron Police now say the number of people shot in the drive-by shooting early Sunday Morning is 27. Two were in critical condition. One person was killed.

Residents are being urged to speak out if they have information about a mass shooting that occurred in East Akron overnight on Sunday.

One 27-year-old male was killed in the shooting. Police are investigating and encourage the community to reach out with tips.

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.