Ten-year-old Astrid Burkle peeks out the front window of her family's Cleveland Heights home. Astrid, who is transgender, and her family spoke to Ideastream Public Media in January about the uncertainty they're facing following successful efforts by Ohio lawmakers to ban transgender youth from receiving gender-affirming medical treatments or playing on girls’ sports teams.

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Ten-year-old Astrid Burkle peeks out the front window of her family's Cleveland Heights home. Astrid, who is transgender, and her family spoke to Ideastream Public Media in January about the uncertainty they're facing following successful efforts by Ohio lawmakers to ban transgender youth from receiving gender-affirming medical treatments or playing on girls’ sports teams. (Ryan Loew / Ideastream Public Media)

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Judi Hill, president of the Akron NAACP, marched with other demonstrators in Downtown Akron on Wednesday, May 24, 2023. Hundreds of protesters, including local and national activists, marched to protest a grand jury’s decision not to indict the eight officers who fatally shot Jayland Walker, a 25-year-old Black man. (Ryan Loew / Ideastream Public Media)

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Chickens gather behind some fencing at Joe and Jen Lautzenheiser's Glenview Acres farm in North Lawrence.

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Kristin Diaz stands for a photo outside her Akron home. Between 1953 and 1987, hundreds of thousands of United States Marines and their families stationed at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina were exposed to contaminated drinking water. Kristin's husband, George Diaz, a Marine and truck driver, died 13 years ago of acute myeloid leukemia after developing myelodysplastic syndrome, a condition in which red blood cells are improperly formed. Diaz has filed a claim on behalf of her late husband.

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A jury in Cuyahoga County found Michael Buehner not guilty of murder on July 19, 2023, two years after his two-decade-old conviction was overturned by an Ohio appeals court. Michael Buehner hugs his son Ryan Buehner after being found not guilty. (Ryan Loew / Ideastream Public Media)

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A staff member at MetroHealth's main campus emergency department holds a container with a bullet inside. The bullet had been found on the floor of the trauma bay where medical personnel had been working to save a man shot multiple times. He died of his wounds. (Ryan Loew / Ideastream Public Media)

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A train passes through East Palestine on Monday, Sept. 25, 2023. (Ryan Loew / Ideastream Public Media)

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Kimberly Lessman, who manages the seed bank at the Holden Arboretum, collects spicebush seeds on the arboretum's grounds on Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2023. (Ryan Loew / Ideastream Public Media )

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Winnie, the family cat, sits atop Tyler Tanner as he and his wife Kelly Cunningham ready dinner for themselves and their two sons in their Mount Vernon home.

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Marcela Funes, 3, wears an earpiece allowing her to listen to an interpreter during a presentation at Akron’s Findley Community Learning Center on Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2023. Marcela's mother, Sheila Soto, (right) who primarily speaks Spanish, attends the presentation while holding her infant nephew Ian Hernandez. Sitting to the left are Sheila's son Yago Soto, 5, and the son a of family friend, Erick Hernandez, 10. (Ryan Loew / Ideastream Public Media )

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Flowering marijuana plants grow inside Buckeye Relief's cannabis cultivation and processing facility in Eastlake. (Ryan Loew / Ideastream Public Media)

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Bees crawl and take flight around colonies that have been introduced to the Akron-Canton Airport airfield. (Ryan Loew / Ideastream Public Media)