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CINCINNATI -- People have long romanticized the 1950s -- Marilyn Monroe's windswept dress, Sun rockabilly 45s, beatnik coffeehouse gatherings, Madison Avenue martini lunches. But old, forgotten mug shots? What is [...]

CINCINNATI -- ''I cannot imagine someone hanging out their underwear and having it immortalized.'' Katrina Marshall, the digital services team leader of the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, [...]

For more than 100 years, Gov. William Allen and President James A. Garfield have represented Ohio in the National Statuary Hall Collection in the United States Capitol in Washington. But […]

A visit to Antioch College, which closed last summer, is a bit like a 'Twilight Zone' episode -- the picturesque small-town campus has no students or faculty, but it does […]

Ardith Chaney, 85, brings out a framed, yellowed newspaper clipping that she keeps with other memorabilia in her house along the highway through this hamlet in south-central Ohio. It shows […]

LEAD: THE nation's once-mighty rail-transportation network is making a comeback, but there is no return to trains. Rather, abandoned rail corridors are becoming recreation trails. THE nation's once-mighty rail-transportation network […]

LEAD: Neil Sharrow, a fan of Louisiana folk music, approached the microphone and spoke to the 500 music-loving revelers at the nightclub. Neil Sharrow, a fan of Louisiana folk music, […]

LEAD: JAY LENO, the comedian, who once stayed there, called the old Cincinnatian Hotel a $3-a-night dump for old men who told stories of the sea and rolled dice in […]

LEAD: IT's the still-hot end of a scorching June day in suburban Blue Ash northeast of Cincinnati. Not too far away from Shirley Stonehill's condominium, the cars move steadily under […]

LEAD: HAROLD WHISMAN has transformed the underground missile storage area of an old Army base into his family's home. HAROLD WHISMAN has transformed the underground missile storage area of an […]

AVACANT inner-city hillside lot filled with trash, trees and ripped-up furniture would not seem naturally appealing to architects from 41 states and several Canadian provinces. Yet 465 persons or teams […]

LEAD: CINCINNATI, Nov. 7 - When residents and merchants in this city's Hyde Park neighborhood decided that a small piece of roadside parkland known as the Mudhole needed a better […]

LIKE many other cities, this Midwestern community survived postwar suburban migration, loss of businesses and inner-city decline to discover that it no longer had any downtown movie theaters. It once […]

FOUR years ago, Paul W. Ogle visited his old hometown and was disheartened by what he saw. True, the Ohio River still looked as pretty as it did some 55 […]

LEAD: In Haight-Ashbury, where loud live rock became an essential part of the youth culture during the 1960's, a new movement is seeking to warn about the dangers of such [...]

PHILIP R. ADELMAN moved here from Canton, Ohio, in 1973 partly because he wanted to help renovate dilapidated row houses in struggling inner-city neighborhoods. He put some $15 million into […]

LEAD: These are busy times for Mark Naftalin, a musician and a producer of blues shows. The posters from his just-completed Marin County Blues Festival are stacked high on a […]

LEAD: IT'S so expensive to live here that even some middle-management city employees need a subsidy to make their housing affordable. IT'S so expensive to live here that even some […]

LEAD: WITH demand for affordable housing remaining strong in the San Francisco region, some builders are taking on complicated projects in an effort to develop the remaining land. WITH demand […]

LEAD: AT a bargain price, Nick and Suzanne Cooke control a nice piece of real estate. As they sit in their living room, they have views of this city's waterfront […]

LEAD: For years, the 1,250-seat Stanford Theater, like so many movie palaces of the Art Deco era, has been unable to justify itself economically. Its future, some thought, was as […]

LEAD: SINCE 1980, the northeast section of this city and its nearby suburbs have become high-growth areas with upper-income residential developments, private lakes, jogging trails and other amenities to lure […]

LEAD: For a man who spent four years walking around the world, Steven M. Newman has an odd confession. 'I don't really like walking that much. I just knew if […]