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![Kid grabs candy from Cathy Baker while saying "Trick-or-treat" in Athens, Ohio on Oct, 26, 2017.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Xu_W_2017.10.26-Trick-or-Treat_100-e1600540240380-900x422.jpg)
Why the urban legend of contaminated Halloween candy won’t disappear
By: Kaity Kline I NPR
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WASHINGTON (NPR) — Halloween is one of the most dangerous holidays of the year for kids. It has more child pedestrian deaths than any other day of the year. Kids… Read More
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The cost for Ohio’s August special election to decide the 60% voter approval amendment goes up
COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — The cost of the August special election in which voters defeated an amendment to make it harder to change Ohio’s constitution has increased to $18… Read More
![Huntington High School senior Max Nibert holds signs he plans to use during a walkout students are staging at Huntington High School in Huntington, W.Va.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/AP23300702572916-e1698775665985-900x422.jpg)
A West Virginia school system mandates religious training following a revival assembly lawsuit
By: Leah Willingham | AP
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A West Virginia school district has passed a policy mandating annual religious freedom training as part of a lawsuit settlement after an evangelical preacher held a… Read More
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WOUB Learning Lab Offers MOLLY OF DENALI ™ PBS KIDS Family & Community Learning literacy workshop series in Athens
Series is free for families and children ATHENS, OH – Families and children in the region can explore literacy from the PBS KIDS series, MOLLY OF DENALI ™ thanks to… Read More
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Three Muslim chaplains in the U.S. military face resistance and uncertainty in “Three Chaplains” on INDEPENDENT LENS – Nov. 6 at 10 pm
PBS’S INDEPENDENT LENS SET TO PREMIERE “THREE CHAPLAINS,” A DOCUMENTARY FOLLOWING MUSLIM LEADERS INCLUDING THE FIRST FEMALE MUSLIM CHAPLAIN IN THE U.S. MILITARY, DAYS BEFORE VETERANS DAY Filmmaker David Washburn… Read More
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Cost is at the center of a debate over requiring seatbelts on school buses in Ohio
By: Sarah Donaldson | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Aiden Clark, 11, died on his first day of school, when one of the many school buses on its way to Northwestern Local Schools… Read More