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‘The black hole of southern Ohio’: how cuts to the VA could impact Chillicothe
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CHILLICOTHE, Ohio (The Ohio Newsroom) — Dan Ramey Jr. was just starting his senior year at Chillicothe High School in September 2001. He watched the Twin Towers fall during lunch…. Read More
Meet the “bounty hunter” filing lawsuits in the name of government transparency
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CINCINNATI (The Ohio Newsroom) — Brian Ames has spent the last decade filing upwards of 160 lawsuits against local governments in the name of government transparency. “I go find public… Read More
Appalachian Ohio child care workers shared their pandemic lessons for a Library of Congress collection
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CINCINNATI (The Ohio Newsroom) — Five years ago this month, Ohio issued an emergency stay-at-home order in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Schools shut down. Child care providers stopped operating…. Read More
Here’s how tariffs could impact Ohio’s soybean growers
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CINCINNATI (The Ohio Newsroom) — As foreign countries threaten and impose retaliatory tariffs on U.S. products, some Ohio soybean farmers are growing concerned. Soybeans are the state’s top-produced crop: Ohio… Read More
From coal to community forest, this is how one Athens County organization is reclaiming former mine land
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ATHENS COUNTY, Ohio (The Ohio Newsroom) — The woods behind Weston Lombard’s farm in Athens County is expansive. “If you look around, we’re just surrounded by oak trees and hickory… Read More
More than half of Ohio adults aren’t proficient in literacy and numeracy. One organization is trying to help
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CLEVELAND (The Ohio Newsroom) — When Delores Landers was 16 years old, she dropped out of high school. She was failing math classes and unable to find the academic support… Read More
‘Keep Ya Head Up’: Honest conversations about gun violence in Ohio
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CLEVELAND, Ohio (The Ohio Newsroom) — Gun violence is a leading cause of death for young people in Ohio. The problem is especially severe in Cuyahoga County, where the gun homicide rate… Read More
How Dayton became the funk capital of the world
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DAYTON, Ohio (The Ohio Newsroom) — In the mid-1960s, James Brown was creating a new style of music — funk. It would one day make its home in Dayton, Ohio…. Read More
Scientists want to monitor microplastics in the Great Lakes. Here’s why it matters
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CINCINNATI (The Ohio Newsroom) — Research suggests the concentration of microplastics in Lake Erie rivals the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. The particles are present in all five Great Lakes, but there’s… Read More
‘Going with God,’ conservative Amish have sued Ohio over its buggy lights law
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HARDIN COUNTY, Ohio (The Ohio Newsroom) — In the 1960s, the Swartzentrubers — one of the most conservative subgroups of Old Order Amish — worked out a deal with the… Read More
Why is Hamilton County getting so much opioid settlement money?
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CINCINNATI (The Ohio Newsroom) — The largest opioid settlement money payout to date is a nationwide $26 billion deal with Johnson & Johnson, plus three of the country’s biggest drug wholesalers…. Read More
How some Ohio cities are bringing new life to old malls
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DAYTON, Ohio (The Ohio Newsroom) — Just off Interstate 75 at exit 68 north of Dayton, the Tipp City Plaza once bustled with businesses inside the old mall, offering a convenient… Read More
Quitting vaping is hard. New research shows quitline coaching helps
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CINCINNATI (The Ohio Newsroom) — In an effort to identify ways to help young people who are quitting vaping, researchers at Ohio State University launched a study. They recruited more than… Read More
Painting Dayton skyscrapers: how local artists are using their craft to inspire youth
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DAYTON, Ohio (The Ohio Newsroom) — Inside Willis Bing Davis’s studio, a series of portraits of people from Dayton hung on the wall: a charcoal drawing of basketball coach Troy… Read More
How Ohio became a model in the nationwide movement to expand private school vouchers
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (The Ohio Newsroom) — The private school vouchers program started small in Ohio. Students at underperforming schools in the city of Cleveland could use the vouchers, funded by… Read More
Nearly half of Ohio’s opioid settlement money is untraceable, according to new database
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Over the course of 18 years, Ohio and its communities are receiving nearly $2 billion from pharmaceutical companies to compensate for harm caused by opioids. The Ohio Newsroom is following… Read More
Toledo’s murder rate fell in 2024. Here’s how the Ohio city is reducing violent crime
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TOLEDO, Ohio (The Ohio Newsroom) — The murder rate in Toledo dropped for the third consecutive year in 2024, to the lowest point since a pandemic crime surge. The small city… Read More
How John Rankin, Ohio’s “father of abolitionism,” helped 2,000 people reach freedom
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CINCINNATI (The Ohio Newsroom) — When Reverend John Rankin moved to the southern Ohio town of Ripley on the banks of the Ohio River in 1822, he quickly became one… Read More
Nearly 600 veterans are homeless in Ohio. Can villages of tiny homes help?
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TUSCARAWAS COUNTY, Ohio (The Ohio Newsroom) — Sandy Muntean served as one of the first female military police officers in the U.S. Army. Times were different back in the ‘70s,… Read More
Steubenville’s giant nutcracker village might not be magic, but they’re bringing a downtown to life
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STEUBENVILLE, Ohio (The Ohio Newsroom) — Days before Thanksgiving, Brodie Stutzman stood in his workshop considering a nearly finished nutcracker. Unlike the traditional mantel-topping toy, this one is almost as… Read More
Self-driving cars are on their way to southeast Ohio
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ATHENS, Ohio (The Ohio Newsroom) — Self-driving cars already roam the streets of cities like San Francisco and Austin, Texas. But how do they fare on the hilly terrain of… Read More
Here is Ohio’s wild turkey success story
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (The Ohio Newsroom) — Amidst the hubbub of Columbus, Blendon Woods Metro Park stands as a reminder of what Ohio looked like hundreds of years ago. A canopy… Read More
Here’s what we can take away from conversations with wrongfully convicted Ohioans
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YELLOW SPRINGS, Ohio (The Ohio Newsroom) — Central Ohio native Richard Horton was released from prison last year — more than a decade after he was wrongfully convicted for a… Read More
Taking showers on the road: How a “Soap-n-Hope” effort aims to address growing homelessness
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CIRCLEVILLE, Ohio (The Ohio Newsroom) — It’s just after 9 o’clock in the morning and the sky is clear blue, the air just crisp enough that Tommy Morrison can see… Read More
A statewide telehealth service is changing the game for Ohioans with gambling addictions
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TOLEDO, Ohio (The Ohio Newsroom) — Aubrey Price’s office is covered in posters illustrating therapeutic techniques. She’s a counselor at the Zepf Center, which houses one of the largest treatment… Read More