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Seeing, hearing and touching the past: a new historical marker is an Ohio first
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TOLEDO, Ohio (The Ohio Newsroom) — As a totally blind person, Dawn Christensen has spent a lifetime navigating spaces that aren’t easily accessible for the visually impaired. For example, a… Read More
Batter up! This Ohio teen was a first round pick for America’s brand new professional baseball league
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CINCINNATI (The Ohio Newsroom) — When London Studer was 11 years old, the central Ohio athlete had a big dream. “To work harder, get stronger and become an MLB star,”… Read More
Forget silver bells. At TubaChristmas, the back-of-the-band brass rings in the holiday
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TIFFIN, Ohio (The Ohio Newsroom) — If you’re part of an orchestra, here’s a line you probably don’t hear often: “The melody with this one starts in the lowest tuba… Read More
100 years ago, Ohio’s first female sheriff donned her badge in Vinton County
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VINTON COUNTY, Ohio (The Ohio Newsroom) — Southeast Ohio’s Vinton County recently unveiled a new mural honoring the state’s first female sheriff: the prisoner-wrangling, homicide-solving single mother of five —… Read More
How the Tuskegee Airmen came to be stationed in Ohio
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CINCINNATI (The Ohio Newsroom) — The Tuskegee Airmen started as an experiment. Before World War II, the U.S. military didn’t permit Black people to pilot planes. “So the NAACP and… Read More
A statewide conservation effort is saving Ohio’s ‘snot otters,’ eastern hellbenders
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (The Ohio Newsroom) — The Columbus Zoo and Aquarium and the Wilds released more than 100 giant, rare salamanders into Ohio waterways this summer. Eastern hellbenders once hid… Read More
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a free-fall parachute? The lifesaving device has Ohio roots
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DAYTON, Ohio (The Ohio Newsroom) — At the Aviation Trail Parachute Museum in Dayton, a timeline wraps around the room, detailing the invention of the life-saving contraption. It begins centuries… Read More
This Ohio veteran is fighting for mental health care in the state’s most rural communities
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This story discusses suicide. If you or someone you love is in need of support, call or text 988 for help. CINCINNATI (The Ohio Newsroom) — On September 11, 2001, Dirk Harkins… Read More
Once a swing state, does Ohio have any shades of purple left?
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CINCINNATI (The Ohio Newsroom) — The Bowling Green State University Democracy and Public Policy Research Network released its latest poll of 800 registered Ohio voters last month. According to the results, former Sen…. Read More
Enrollment is trending up at Ohio universities, with a notable exception
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CINCINNATI (The Ohio Newsroom) — From Bowling Green State University to Youngstown State, universities across Ohio saw an uptick in enrollment this semester. But one demographic was noticeably left out… Read More
Smart trick-or-treaters know Dum-Dums are Ohio made
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CINCINNATI (The Ohio Newsroom) — When you step into the Spangler Candy factory, the air smells like sugar. Trays of circus peanuts rotate overhead. Workers hand place pinstripes onto candy… Read More
Politicians are focused on crime in cities. What about rural crime?
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CINCINNATI (The Ohio Newsroom) — President Donald Trump has made headlines in recent months for sending federal troops to major metros from Memphis, Tennessee to Portland, Oregon. While Ohio cities… Read More
How Athens County is getting ready for future flash floods
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ATHENS COUNTY, Ohio (The Ohio Newsroom) — Athens County just experienced its driest August on record. Before that, it received historic amounts of rainfall. From January to July, the county… Read More
A mobile unit takes lung cancer screening on the road
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CINCINNATI (The Ohio Newsroom) — Health care workers with Ohio State University have begun driving a mobile lung cancer screening unit across the state. It’s meant to expand early detection… Read More
Remembering Ray Brown, Alger’s forgotten baseball star
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ALGER, Ohio (The Ohio Newsroom) — Before Jackie Robinson integrated Major League Baseball in 1947, pitcher Ray Brown was making a name for himself in the Negro Leagues. Today, he’s… Read More
The legal battle over toxic waste disposal in southeast Ohio
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CINCINATTI (The Ohio Newsroom) — The James M. Gavin Power Plant in southeast Ohio is one of the largest coal-fired electricity plants in the country. It’s also one of the… Read More
The cost of child care is burdening Ohio’s families and economy. What can be done?
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KNOX COUNTY, Ohio (The Ohio Newsroom) — Ohio’s economy loses $5 billion dollars each year due to insufficient child care coverage, according to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation. In… Read More
How pediatricians are helping more kids get dental care in Ohio
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CINCINNATI (The Ohio Newsroom) — Ohio kids on Medicaid are nearly twice as likely as kids nationwide to go to the emergency department for preventable dental issues, like cavities or… Read More
A new Ohio nature preserve in Athens and Morgan counties protects 3,000 acres of Appalachian foothills
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ATHENS COUNTY, Ohio (The Ohio Newsroom) — Betty Lowe’s family has owned nearly 3,000 acres of forested land in the foothills of Appalachian Ohio for the last century. Now, the… Read More
How cuts to H2Ohio could impact the future of wetlands restoration
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HENRY COUNTY, Ohio (The Ohio Newsroom) — Before northwest Ohio was filled with fields of corn and soybeans, it was covered in slimy mud and standing water. “Northwest Ohio was… Read More
A study finds high rates of PTSD and depression in East Palestine months after the train disaster
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EAST PALESTINE, Ohio (The Ohio Newsroom) — Nine months after a train derailed in East Palestine releasing toxic chemicals into the environment, locals were still feeling the effects — physically and… Read More
This rural Ohio county is building its own way out of a housing shortage
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WILLIAMS COUNTY, Ohio (The Ohio Newsroom) — In Northwest Ohio’s Williams County, it isn’t hard to find a job: Local leaders say the county’s economic growth is expected to outpace Toledo’s,… Read More
Foster care placement costs are ballooning across Ohio. Here’s why
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TOLEDO, Ohio (The Ohio Newsroom) — In Lucas County, home to the city of Toledo, the cost to place children in foster care is soaring. The county pays upwards of… Read More
These Ohio county engineers are retracing history along the Greenville Treaty Line
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LOUDONVILLE, Ohio (The Ohio Newsroom) — The grassy field beside a two-lane highway near Loudonville in north central Ohio is nothing special. In the distance, an American flag fluttered outside… Read More
Black bears are back. Here’s how the species is recolonizing Ohio
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CINCINNATI (The Ohio Newsroom) — A roving black bear made headlines earlier this month for wandering neighborhoods near Dayton and Cincinnati. Sightings in that region are rare, said Katie Dennison,… Read More