“Boys to beg for zoo,” the 1906 headline from The Plain Dealer read. In 1907, after an agreement with City Council, the zoo began its monumental move to its current location in Brookside Par ...

Dan Coughlin, a longtime sports writer at The Plain Dealer and later a vibrant member of the WJW-TV 8 sports crew, passed away in his sleep Oct. 6 at his home in Rocky River. Coughlin was 86.

A Boston native, he joined the Chronicle in 2022 from cleveland.com and The Plain Dealer in Ohio. He is a graduate of Emerson College and the Columbia University School of Journalism.

He began his career at The Plain Dealer as a high school sports reporter and spent decades on the sidelines each Friday night in the fall for Fox 8's popular "Friday Night Touchdown" highlights show.

Hardheaded? Dogmatic? Just plain mean? It is hard to know how to label the stubborn refusal by Kansas lawmakers to expand access to Medicaid. Perhaps the most apt label is “foolish.” ...

Pickleball is popular everywhere. “When it's nice out, we play outside,” said Sherry Plain. “We have courts all over Decatur. Cresthaven, South Shores, Sinawik, Kiwanis. A lot of the tennis ...

We compared 100 grams of plain cottage cheese with 2 percent milk and 100 grams of plain, nonfat Greek yogurt. Here’s what the data and experts say about the Greek yogurt versus cottage cheese ...

An officer from the Highland Police Department discovered the packages in plain sight inside the vehicle during the traffic stop, according to a news release. Police did not say what originally ...

Only, you may forgive yourself if you get there — and, like my daughter, not realize that somebody as plain and peaceful as Plains and peanuts could have been elected president in the era of ...

OKLAHOMA CITY — Oklahoma may be “where the wind comes sweepin’ down the plain,” but more than 200 people rallied at the Capitol on Tuesday to demand that the wind not be used to generate ...

The Christmas season just doesn’t seem as exciting anymore — and it’s bothering me. I’ve been trying to figure it out for a few years. Before my friend Bishop O’Hara takes me to task, I ...