The Greater Cincinnati Gay, Lesbian, Bi-sexual, Transgendered and Questioning Youth Summit has a serious purpose, but that's not to say it won't also be fun. The free conference, which meets from   

In a bid to keep Convergys Corp. from leaving Cincinnati, city staff secretly negotiated to sell publicly owned recreational land for a new office complex. Convergys was interested in building a ne  

Sulfuric, hydrochloric and nitric acids can melt metal. Imagine having it splashed in your face. Bina Akhter and Jharna Akhter know how it feels. The two teens are survivors of a horrifying trend   

A man who told Cincinnati Police he was injured in a gay-bashing assault March 9 found himself jailed instead of taken to a hospital. Then, without appearing in court, he was somehow put on trial   

Rodney Jackson has been thrown out of businesses, threatened and denied hospital care. His crime: having a service dog. Service animals, usually dogs, assist disabled people in case of emergencie  

The slap of a wooden pole on the ground. A red fan in the mist. Somewhere, Buddha smiles. The Shaolin Warriors -- performing at 7 p.m. Sunday at the Aronoff Center -- share an ancient art that tra  

Welfare is supposed to be for people like Catrina Weber, a disabled 40-year-old struggling to raise her 5-year-old son. "When I get home at night, it hurts so bad, sometimes I have to crawl on t  

The U.S. Sixth Circuit of Appeals, which meets in Cincinnati, hears a case Thursday that could mark the death of affirmative action in higher education -- and fuel the birth of a new civil rights   

Hundreds of students missed class Oct. 23 to help launch what some are calling "the new civil rights movement." Not content to relegate issues of racial justice to the CAN (Community Action Now, a  

What does the word "bench" bring to mind? A lonely assemblage of chipped boards and faded paint waiting perpetually at the bus stop? A splintering seat soaked with years of excitement from Littl