FORGOTTEN HISTORY: 3 - The Untold Story

Chicago outdoors: Look-alike deer, nuisance animals, Illinois’ last elk, no ice and Put-in-Bay

A herd of look-alike deer in Crete, what do to about a nuisance bobcat, Illinois’ last wild elk and no-ice impacts on Put-in-Bay island on Lake Erie are among the notes from around Chicago outdoors and beyond.

Chicago Sun-Times · Mar 11, 2023

Iranian Foundation Offers Land to Salman Rushdie’s Attacker

An Iranian foundation has praised a man accused of severely injuring novelist Salman Rushdie in an attack last year and promised him 1,000 sq metres of agricultural land, state TV reported on Tuesday on its Telegram channel. Rushdie, 75, lost an eye and the use of one hand following the…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Feb 22, 2023

The town that forged Super Bowl brothers Travis and Jason Kelce: ‘No place like’ it

CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, Ohio — The winds off Lake Erie were gusting at 5 below zero. Snow dusted everything. Joe D’Amato, the athletic director at Cleveland Heights High, bundled into his coat and walked from the school’s east exit through biting air to the football field not 70 feet away.

Tribune News Service · Feb 9, 2023

Metal detectors, polygraph tests to come in wake of Lake Erie fishing tournament scandal

PITTSBURGH — Fish stories just aren't what they used to be. To be believed, you'd better have live-streaming video, a digital scale and a lawyer. Now big-money fishing tournaments are even turning to metal detectors to prevent anglers from cheating.

Tribune News Service · Nov 2, 2022

Fisherman plead not guilty to charges in tournament scandal

Two men accused of stuffing five walleye with lead weights and fish filets during a lucrative fishing tournament on Lake Erie have pleaded not guilty to cheating and other charges

The Independent UK · Oct 26, 2022

Clean Water Act at 50: environmental gains, challenges unmet

Fifty years ago, Congress passed the Clean Water Act to protect U.S. waterways from abuses like the oily industrial pollution that caused Ohio's Cuyahoga River to catch on fire in 1969

The Independent UK · Oct 17, 2022

Script flips on Steelers in second half as they stumble in Cleveland

CLEVELAND — These Thursday night affairs on the banks of Lake Erie are becoming quite the chore for the Steelers. Three years after a memorable late-week loss to the Browns in primetime, one that ended with an all-out brawl, Cleveland pushed over the Steelers legally this time in a 29-17…

Tribune News Service · Sep 23, 2022

Bears, Justin Fields looking for success at scene of last year’s low point

The quarterback was sacked nine times and hit on six more occasions in the Bears’ 26-6 loss on Sept. 26. On the shores of Lake Erie, head coach Matt Nagy’s offense totaled 47 yards — the franchise’s fewest in 40 years — on 42 plays.

Chicago Sun-Times · Aug 25, 2022

To reduce harmful algal blooms and dead zones, the US needs a national strategy for regulating farm pollution

Midsummer is the time for forecasts of the size of this year’s “dead zones” and algal blooms in major lakes and bays. Will the Gulf of Mexico dead zone be the size of New Jersey, or only as big as Connecticut? Will Lake Erie’s bloom blossom to a human health…

The Conversation · Jul 18, 2022

Toxic algae in the Great Lakes

In Toledo, Ohio, monitoring and treating algae-contaminated water from Lake Erie costs $100 per family per year

Salon · Jul 14, 2022