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Environmental advocates sue Ohio for the rights to enforce clean air rules
By: Adriana Martinez-Smiley | WYSO
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YELLOW SPRINGS, Ohio (WYSO) — For decades, Ohioans have had multiple tools at their disposal to keep air polluters in check. But Ohio’s budget bill passed over the summer strips… Read More
This Ohio pharmacy professor is training to bridge rural healthcare gaps
By: Kendall Crawford | The Ohio Newsroom
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CINCINNATI (The Ohio Newsroom) — Each year, the National Rural Health Association trains nearly 20 rural healthcare professionals with the aim of expanding access for small towns. This year, Ohio… Read More
New research from Ohio University could help make pipe dreams – literally – come true
By: Kendall Crawford | The Ohio Newsroom
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CINCINNATI (The Ohio Newsroom) — If you’ve encountered prolonged construction on your morning commute, you may find yourself wondering: Why are they tearing up the road? Why is it taking… Read More
This small Ohio city has a rare full-on Spanish immersion elementary school
By: Conor Morris | Ideastream Public Media
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MANSFIELD, Ohio (Ideastream Public Media) — In Teacher Maria Burris’ classroom at the Spanish Immersion School in Mansfield, second grader Lucia answers a math problem about how many stones Lewis… Read More
A Mansfield STEM school shows science is for all kids, despite headwinds facing education
By: Conor Morris | Ideastream Public Media
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MANSFIELD, Ohio (Ideastream) — The earth sciences room at Springmill STEM Elementary school doesn’t look like a typical elementary school classroom. There’s a world map on the ceiling lighting up… Read More
Ohio weather monitoring lags behind. A new network could mean better forecasts
By: Erin Gottsacker | The Ohio Newsroom
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CLARK COUNTY, Ohio (The Ohio Newsroom) — On a farm in rural Clark County in southwest Ohio, fallow fields stretch as far as the eye can see. In the middle… Read More
Ohio landfills take drilling waste, but don’t track or test much of it
By: Julie Grant | The Allegheny Front
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AMSTERDAM, Ohio (The Allegheny Front) — The process of fracking a well brings up gas or oil from deep underground. But it also brings dirt and rocks that could be… Read More
Seeing, hearing and touching the past: a new historical marker is an Ohio first
By: Erin Gottsacker | The Ohio Newsroom
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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
A USDA-funded program handed out the first — and last — grants to Ohio food businesses
By: Amanda Pirani
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MILLFIELD, Ohio (The Ohio Newsroom) — On a sunny December morning, Western Lombard points to a black walnut tree. It’s one of many native crops that grow on his farm… Read More
Batter up! This Ohio teen was a first round pick for America’s brand new professional baseball league
By: Erin Gottsacker | The Ohio Newsroom
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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
By: Erin Gottsacker | The Ohio Newsroom
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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
By: Erin Gottsacker | The Ohio Newsroom
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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 might drones respond to 911 calls? Ohio will be the first in the nation to find out
By: Kendall Crawford | The Ohio Newsroom
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CINCINNATI (The Ohio Newsroom) — When an emergency call comes in, first responders often don’t have the luxury of knowing exactly what they’re walking into. They may get a report… Read More
How the Tuskegee Airmen came to be stationed in Ohio
By: Erin Gottsacker | The Ohio Newsroom
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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 Cincinnati sitcom made a joke out of flying turkeys. But bird experts may have the last laugh
By: Bill Rinehart | WVXU
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CINCINNATI (WVXU) — Even if you’ve never watched the ‘80s sitcom “WKRP in Cincinnati”, there’s one line you’re probably familiar with. “As God as my witness, I thought turkeys could… Read More
How a SOAR text alert system is saving lives one “bad batch” at a time
By: George Shillcock | WOSU
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (WOSU) — A new harm reduction technique that started as a student project at Ohio State University is getting attention — and thousands of dollars in opioid settlement… Read More
A statewide conservation effort is saving Ohio’s ‘snot otters,’ eastern hellbenders
By: Erin Gottsacker | The Ohio Newsroom
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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
Why Ohio scientists – and some dairy producers – are against legalizing raw milk
By: Shay Frank | WYSO
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YELLOW SPRINGS, Ohio (WYSO) — Milk is big business in Ohio. It’s 11th in the nation for dairy cows. The USDA reports that dairy accounted for over $1.3 billion in production… Read More
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a free-fall parachute? The lifesaving device has Ohio roots
By: Erin Gottsacker | The Ohio Newsroom
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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
A year into new ownership, violence still plagues Ohio’s largest youth treatment center
By: Kendall Crawford | The Ohio Newsroom
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PERRYSVILLE, Ohio (The Ohio Newsroom) — Several years ago, the state tried to shut down the Mohican Young Star Academy youth treatment center over frequent 911 calls, runaways and the… Read More
More people are tripping on psychedelics. Ohio State wants providers to be prepared
By: Kendall Crawford | The Ohio Newsroom
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CINCINNATI (The Ohio Newsroom) — The use of psychedelics is on the rise. The number of people using hallucinogens increased more than a percentage point from 2021 to this year,… Read More
Could swamp-ifying northwest Ohio help curb toxic algal blooms?
By: Kendall Crawford | The Ohio Newsroom
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CINCINNATI (The Ohio Newsroom) — It’s been more than a decade since toxic algal blooms caused Lake Erie’s western shore to turn bright green and the residents of Toledo to… Read More
Millions of Ohioans are caregivers. Many are struggling
By: Clare Roth | The Ohio Newsroom
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CLEVELAND (The Ohio Newsroom) — A recent study published by the AARP found nearly a quarter of Ohio adults are caregivers. More than two million people across the state are… Read More
This Ohio veteran is fighting for mental health care in the state’s most rural communities
By: Erin Gottsacker | The Ohio Newsroom
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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
The legendary ‘Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald’ lives on in Ohio
By: Kendall Crawford | The Ohio Newsroom
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CINCINNATI (The Ohio Newsroom) — Tom Walton spent one season aboard the Edmund Fitzgerald in 1963. And even just as a porter, he was lucky to land a competitive spot… Read More
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