Cleveland

This is a map showing where all of the characters originated in Homer’s epic poem The Iliad. I know Greece is small by today’s standards, but it was surprising to me how geographically widespread the hometowns of the characters were. The Iliad is set sometime in the 11th or 12th century BC, about 400 years before Homer lived.

Rivals Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump sprinted out of the campaign blocks on Sept. 5 to begin their two-month dash to the U.S. presidential election, descending on Ohio as ground zero of their 2016 battle.

The U.S. city of Cleveland has reached a $6 million settlement with the family of Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old African American shot by police while holding a toy gun.
 
Under the terms of the settlement, Cleveland does not admit any wrongdoing, according to details of the accord announced April 25 by a U.S. District Court in Ohio.    

Republican U.S. presidential hopeful Ted Cruz won all 14 delegates at stake on April 16 in Wyoming, besting rival Donald Trump, who made little effort to win the rural state, and further narrowing the gap in the race for the party's nomination. 

Republican Ted Cruz easily won the Wisconsin presidential primary on April 5, dealing a blow to front-runner Donald Trump's hopes of amassing enough delegates for the party's nomination and boosting chances of a rare contested convention. 

Hillary Clinton took a monumental step toward clinching the Democratic party's White House nomination on March 15, while Donald Trump's seemingly unstoppable rush to victory hit a bump in Ohio.

Nearly 2,500 ago, Aristotle said ‘People are political animals’. But when you are 6 months old and you are taken to a political rally, listening to US Presidential Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders is not your top priority…Your only priority at this stage of your life is quite simply feeding.

Snapping a 40-year title drought, the Golden State Warriors have downed Cleveland 105-97 to capture the NBA Finals and become one of the league's most unconventional championship teams.

A white Cleveland police officer who climbed onto the hood of a car and fired dozens of rounds at an unarmed black couple in 2012 was acquitted of voluntary manslaughter May 23.

LeBron James made a baseline jumper as time expired to lift the Cleveland Cavaliers to an 86-84 win over the Chicago Bulls in game four of the NBA playoff quarter-finals on May 10.