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Biden’s new winter COVID plan will reimburse you for at-home tests
By: Tamara Keith | Brian Naylor | NPR
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Updated December 2, 2021 at 2:56 PM ET WASHINGTON, D.C. (NPR) — President Biden announced Thursday that private health insurance plans will soon reimburse people who buy over-the-counter, at-home rapid tests for the coronavirus — one of a series of steps the White House is planning in order to encourage better detection and prevention of… Read More
The OUtlet – December 2, 2021
By: Taylor Burnette
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This week on The OUtlet, Dylan Theisen takes us through some of the challenges of getting broadband internet access to southeast Ohio and how these struggles played out during the pandemic. Bam and Bros Barbershop is open for business on Court Street, and André Norrils looks beyond the barber chair to the man cutting hair,… Read More
There’s another spike in Ohio’s COVID case numbers
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — The most recent COVID case numbers from the Ohio Department of Health show more than 9,000 positive and confirmed cases of the virus. Ohio Health Dept Director Dr. Bruce Vanderhoff said the case numbers from the past couple of days are rising. “These numbers are comparable to what we… Read More
Watch the debut of Corduroy Brown’s video for “Who I Am For Now”
By: Emily Votaw
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Earlier this year, Huntington, WV-based musician Alan “Corduroy” Brown gave us “Let Me Know,” a powerful, life-affirming album released only months after Brown had a close encounter with death that forever shifted his perspective on life. Severe complications from COVID-19 left Brown in the ICU early this year on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), a last… Read More
27 new COVID-19 cases were reported in Athens County for Dec. 2
By: Aaron Payne
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ATHENS, Ohio (WOUB) — Athens County has now had 8,353 total cases of COVID-19 since the beginning of the pandemic after 27 new cases were reported Thursday. The Ohio Department of Health confirmed the numbers on Dec. 2, 2021. According to ODH data, the cases involved eight people 20-29, seven 30-39, six people 0-19, four… Read More
Slow start and cold shooting against LSU prove to be too much for Bobcats to overcome
By: Zach Paquette
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The Ohio Bobcats had a chance Wednesday night to earn a win over a Power-5 opponent in the LSU Tigers, but a slow start proved to be too much for the Bobcats to overcome as the Bobcats would ultimately fall to the Tigers 66-51. The Tigers commanded this game from the start, jumping out to… Read More
Hocking College’s WLCI and Blackout Booking will present 10th ‘Benefest’ at The Union Dec. 3 & 4
Hocking College Music & Recording Industry students from WLCI and Blackout Booking will present the 10th ever Benefest Friday, December 3 and Saturday, December 4 at The Union (18 West Union Street, Athens). Proceeds from the shows will benefit Stuart’s Opera House Afterschool Program and The Gathering Place. Friday’s line-up includes Sneakthief, Boy Jorts, Water… Read More
Voter rights groups file challenge to new Ohio Congressional map
By: Andy Chow | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — A coalition of voter rights groups has filed a challenge to the state’s new Congressional district map in the Ohio Supreme Court. The ACLU of Ohio, League of Women Voters, and the A. Philip Randolph Institute filed the lawsuit in the Ohio Supreme Court, along with other individuals named… Read More
Lawsuit argues Ohio’s police officers aren’t meeting state training requirements
By: Matt Richmond | ideastream
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CLEVELAND (Ideastream) — Mariah Crenshaw has spent years building a case that officers around Ohio are violating state law simply by continuing to serve as officers. It started in 2014. Crenshaw runs the advocacy group Chasing Justice, and she wanted to know how the Cleveland Division of Police collects training documentation for officers who are… Read More
The Athens Artists Memorial Project remains dedicated to funding underprivileged Southeast Ohio artists after becoming official 501(c)(3) organization
By: Emily Votaw
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WOUB Digital · Doug Brooks and Roman Warmke tell WOUB Culture about AAMP In December 1994 the Athens art community unexpectedly lost musician John Bartlett, also known as Johnny B. In tribute to Bartlett, a number of his friends organized a concert the following spring to raise funds in his name for low income children… Read More
Change Your Brain, Heal Your Mind with Daniel Amen, MD | Wednesday, Dec 8 at 8 pm
Change Your Brain, Heal Your Mind with Daniel Amen, MD To heal your mind, you must first change your brain.” – Daniel Amen, MD The Washington Post wrote that by almost any measure Dr. Daniel Amen is the most popular psychiatrist in America. He is an award-winning brain imaging researcher, founder of The Amen Clinics,… Read More