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Tax coffers in Ohio have a lot to gain if an Ohioan wins that big Mega Millions jackpot tomorrow
COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — The Mega Millions Jackpot is rising. It’s now more than $1.1 billion for Thursday night’s drawing. And lottery officials said that’s the second largest… Read More
Rick Springfield performs at the Wendel concert stage kicking off Lancaster’s 38th annual festival
LANCASTER, Ohio (WOUB) – The Lancaster Festival is back at it again and kicked off a week full of events with its annual Art Walk and a special appearance from… Read More
One COVID-related death has been reported in Athens County, along with 207 new cases for July 16-28
ATHENS, Ohio (WOUB) — Athens County has now had 146 total deaths related to COVID-19 since the beginning of the pandemic after one was added to the total Thursday. The… Read More
Bringing respect and dignity to the forgotten: “Who Lies Beneath: The Asylum”
https://ohio.streamguys1.com/Spectrum/mp3/CheriRussoWHO_220728.mp3 A new limited podcast series has been released by WOUB Public Media. “Who Lies Beneath: The Asylum” tells the true-life stories of people who were buried in numbered graves… Read More
Burrow to miss part of Bengals’ camp after appendectomy
CINCINNATI (AP) — Cincinnati Bengals coach Zac Taylor said quarterback Joe Burrow has had a successful appendectomy but there is no timetable for his return to the field. Taylor said… Read More
Health insurance prices for care are out there, but finding them is hard
WASHINGTON, D.C. (NPR) — Data wonks with mighty computers are overjoyed. Ordinary consumers, not so much. That’s the reaction about three weeks into a data dump of enormous proportions. Health… Read More
Southeast Ohio addresses bus driver shortage
ATHENS, Ohio (WOUB) – Athens schools will start the new year with a full slate of bus drivers for the first time in three years. The challenge now is keeping… Read More
Take a seat on the ultimate thrill ride with “NOVA Universe Revealed: Black Holes” – August 3 at 9 pm
“NOVA UNIVERSE REVEALED: BLACK HOLES” Wednesday, August 3, 2022 at 9pm Black holes have long challenged the best minds in science and gripped the popular imagination. The most powerful and… Read More
Connecting Names with the Numbers
http://ohio.streamguys1.com/WhoLiesBeneath/mp3/EP001_MIX_220216.mp3 In this episode, Cheri Russo and Doug McCabe talk about why people who died at the old Athens Lunatic Asylum and other institutions across the country, and were not… Read More