- Local News

via News5: Do you think you have what it takes to be a sheriff’s deputy? The Cuyahoga County Sheriff’s Department is hiring. The department is looking for candidates who have a high school diploma or equivalent, are 21 years old, currently have an Ohio Peace Officer’s Training Association certificate, have a valid State of Ohio driver’s […]

National

via eurweb: Tennis Champ Serena Williams is curious to know why she’s tested for doping far more often than her peers. The star athlete took questions from media during a press conference on Sunday to discuss her upcoming match against the Netherlands’ Arantxa Rus at the Wimbledon tournament in London, per Huff Post. When one reporter asked for her comment about […]

- CLE

Officials were made aware of the lead levels in November 2015, but issued a notice to residents last Thursday.   As the Flint, Michigan water crisis finally…

National

The amount of time students spend on testing can be reduced by nearly 20 percent under recommendations made today by the state superintendent of public instruction as part of a comprehensive report. The legislatively-required report – based upon a survey of testing practices in hundreds of Ohio districts and schools – suggests the elimination of […]

- CLE

  Students heading back to school in more than 40 states, including Ohio, face rigorous testing this year anchored to theCommon Core standards that set the bar for what students should know each year in English Language Arts and Math. “It’s a much more rigorous exam than what students are used to, but at the […]

- CLE

  Dawn Neely-Randall has been a teacher for 24 years, and she is fed up with all the testing of students in Ohio. She wrote an editorial for the Washington Post on how much public school students are tested in Ohio. Randall is a fifth-grade English language arts teacher and feels like too much of […]

National

  President Obama announced a new initiative in the pursuit of a cure for HIV at the National Institutes of Health on World AIDS Day…

The nationally-syndicated “Dr. Oz Show” on Tuesday revealed what it called the results of a comprehensive investigative report on arsenic levels in store-bought apple juice. Their findings? That the arsenic levels in some brands made them unsafe for consumption. But the U.S. Food and Drug Administration refutes the show’s report and says drinking all brands […]

The nationally-syndicated “Dr. Oz Show” on Tuesday revealed what it called the results of a comprehensive investigative report on arsenic levels in store-bought apple juice. Their findings? That the arsenic levels in some brands made them unsafe for consumption. But the U.S. Food and Drug Administration refutes the show’s report and says drinking all brands […]

Elev8 Health

Getting your annual Mammogram in conjunction with an MRI can be a cost-effective way of improving life expectancy in women at high risk for breast cancer. A team of radiologists at General Hospital in Boston, Ma. conducted a study to determine the costs and benefits of mammography. Read their findings here.