Unlike most others his age, 74-year-old Silver Lake resident and business owner Daniel Moneypenny loves climbing stairs. So much so that he recently raced up the 1,576 stairs of the Empire State Building to its 86th Floor Observatory as part of the Empire State Building Run-Up (ESBRU) in New York City. ...

The nation's largest candy store is right here in Northeast Ohio. b.a. Sweetie Candy brings back sweet, sticky childhood memories inside a cavernous warehouse filled with every type of candy you can imagine. If you had it as a kid, chances are, Sweetie's has it. ...

Figuratively speaking, most careers start from the ground up. Terry Pluto’s is an exception. His — literally — started from the ground up.The Northeast Ohio native and Plain Dealer/Cleveland.com (and former Akron Beacon Journal) sports and faith writer/columnist and author of more than 30 sports and faith books, says his writing career began soon after being flattened by a teammate during a football practice as a 110-lb. freshman at Cleveland’s Benedictine High School. ...

Millions of fathers and sons have toured the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton since its opening in 1963. Only a handful have been honored by it. One of those duos has been part of the Browns organization since 1946: Northeast Ohio’s Abe Abraham and his son, Lou. Both have plaques honoring them inside the Hall of Fame’s Visa Hall of Fans. Long-time Browns fans may remember Abe, a Lebanese immigrant and deli owner, as a “The Man in the Brown Suit. The Browns appointed him to catch after-attempts and field-goal kicks in the Browns’ end zone from 1946 to 1982, shortly before he passed away at age 74.  Abe’s son Lou, 76, lives in Willoughby with his wife, Shelley, and a treasure trove of football memories. He was the mascot for the 1953-54 Browns teams when he was 10 years old. A classic photo shows the young mascot with members of the 1954 championship Browns, including seven future Pro Football Hall of Famers. Lou’s business cards feature the image and were happily received by fans he encountered during the days leading up to the NFL draft this past spring in Cleveland. ...