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Ohio’s K-12 School Employees Will Begin Getting COVID-19 Vaccines Thursday
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Ohio’s K-12 schools will begin vaccinating their employees later this week. But the schedule for shot clinics is based on vaccine accessibility. Ohio Gov. Mike… Read More
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Ohio University Scientists Search For A Way To Shut Down Coronavirus
By: David Forster
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ATHENS, Ohio (WOUB) — In the race to defeat COVID-19, much of the focus has been on vaccines that stimulate the body’s immune system to prepare for an attack. But… Read More
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Portman Joins Most GOP Senators In Failed Attempt To Dismiss Impeachment Trial
By: Andy Chow | Statehouse News Bureau
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (Statehouse News Bureau) — U.S. Senator Rob Portman (R-Ohio) says forgoing a run for re-election does not change his approach to the upcoming impeachment trial of former President… Read More
![Gov. Mike DeWine gives a coronavirus update from his home on August 20, 2020.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/mike_dewine_wide_with_camera_082020-e1598993226255-900x422.jpg)
Ohio May Lift Curfew If Hospitalizations Decrease
By: Leila Goldstein | WYSO
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (WYSO) — Ohio’s 10 p.m. curfew could be shifted to 11 p.m. on Thursday, Gov. Mike DeWine announced at his Tuesday coronavirus briefing. The state will follow a… Read More
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Should State Utility Regulators Be Elected Or Selected?
By: Karen Kasler | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — The $61 million bribery scandal involving Ohio’s nuclear plant bailout law and a utility widely believed to be FirstEnergy has brought new attention to the… Read More
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Athens County Confirms 23 New COVID-19 Cases For January 26
By: Aaron Payne
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ATHENS, Ohio (WOUB) — Athens County has now had 3,861 total cases of COVID-19 since the beginning of the pandemic after 23 were reported Tuesday. The Ohio Department of Health confirmed… Read More
![Lights placed as a memorial to COVID-19 victims surround the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool on Jan. 19. Some economists believe deaths tied to alcohol use, drug use and suicides have risen during the pandemic as the isolation felt by many has taken an emotional toll.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/ap_21019852137579-28aea7dba90424c85c4a6d2b466a1b72dcbbef9a-scaled-e1611676524795-900x422.jpg)
They Lost Sons To Drug Overdoses: How The Pandemic May Be Fueling Deaths Of Despair
By: Scott Horsley | NPR
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As drug overdose deaths rise during the pandemic, a former White House economist says social isolation could be partly to blame.
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Future Islands: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
By: Bob Boilen | NPR
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Ahead of Holocaust Remembrance Day on Wednesday, we hear from Ruth Cohen, an Auschwitz survivor, about her message to young people about the importance of the phrase: never forget.
![FILE - This undated file photo provided by the West Virginia Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation shows Elizabeth Jo Shirley. Shirley was sentenced Monday, Jan. 25, 2021, to more than eight years in federal prison for unlawfully retaining a document containing national defense information and three years for committing international parental kidnapping. Prosecutors said that Shirley, who previously served in the Air Force, planned to offer top-secret information from the National Security Agency to the Russian government.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/AP21025814340347-e1611677921150-900x422.jpg)
W. Va. Woman Sentenced In Scheme To Offer Information To Russia
By: Associated Press
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A West Virginia woman has been sentenced to more than 11 years in federal prison for planning to offer top-secret information from the National Security Agency… Read More
![President Joe Biden answers questions from reporters in the South Court Auditorium on the White House complex, Monday, Jan. 25, 2021, in Washington.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/AP21026106293858-e1611677406738-900x422.jpg)
Biden Has An Ambitious Agenda. What Will It Mean For The Ohio Valley?
By: Jeff Young | Liam Niemeyer | Alana Watson | Ohio Valley ReSource
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (OVR) — After an extraordinary inauguration ceremony marked by heightened security and coronavirus safety measures, President Joe Biden started his first day in office signing executive actions on… Read More
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Women’s Workplace Equality Featured on “9TO5: THE STORY OF A MOVEMENT” – February 1 at 10 pm
9TO5: THE STORY OF A MOVEMENT, DOCUMENTARY ABOUT THE SECRETARIES WHO FOUGHT THEIR BOSSES AND INSPIRED THE HIT MOVIE & CLASSIC DOLLY PARTON SONG,PREMIERES ON PBS’S INDEPENDENT LENS ON FEBRUARY… Read More
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Former WOUB Student Now Weekend Anchor in Cincinnati
Evan Millward graduated in 2011 ATHENS, OH – When Evan Millward started looking at colleges, he didn’t always want to go to Ohio University. But, now the Weekend Anchor/Reporter at… Read More