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An airship fell on Noble County, Ohio. A century later, residents still tell its story
By: Kendall Crawford | The Ohio Newsroom
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AVA, Ohio (The Ohio Newsroom) — Theresa Rayner has lived in Noble County her whole life. She said not much happens in the rural unincorporated community of Ava. But, one… Read More
Once a swing state, does Ohio have any shades of purple left?
By: Erin Gottsacker | The Ohio Newsroom
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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
These Ohio hunters are bagging bucks to feed their neighbors
By: Kendall Crawford | The Ohio Newsroom
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BUTLER COUNTY, Ohio (The Ohio Newsroom) — At a hunting ground in Butler County, Don Boling walked down an overgrown wooded path, littered with fall foliage. It’s one of his… Read More
Enrollment is trending up at Ohio universities, with a notable exception
By: Erin Gottsacker | The Ohio Newsroom
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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
By: Erin Gottsacker | The Ohio Newsroom
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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?
By: Erin Gottsacker | The Ohio Newsroom
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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
Wooster High students finally get a promised concert, five decades on
By: Clare Roth | The Ohio Newsroom
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WOOSTER, Ohio (The Ohio Newsroom) — Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels are performing in Ohio this weekend. But instead of playing the Agora Theater or the Beachland Ballroom, the octogenarian… Read More
In Ohio, corn mazes are serious business
By: Celia Johnson | Midstory
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TIFFIN, Ohio (Midstory) — Throughout its 114-year history, Riehm Produce Farm in Tiffin, Ohio, has been no stranger to change. Vegetables, strawberries and a farm stand were all once new… Read More
How Athens County is getting ready for future flash floods
By: Erin Gottsacker | The Ohio Newsroom
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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
LLCs and out-of-state investors are buying up Ohio homes
By: Kendall Crawford | The Ohio Newsroom
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CINCINNATI (The Ohio Newsroom) — It’s a hard time to be a prospective homebuyer in Ohio and across the country. Home prices have barely declined in the last year, as… Read More
A mobile unit takes lung cancer screening on the road
By: Erin Gottsacker | The Ohio Newsroom
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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
As data centers boom in Ohio, local communities are watching their water
By: Kendall Crawford | The Ohio Newsroom
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MARYSVILLE, Ohio (The Ohio Newsroom) — A year’s worth of Marysville’s water laps in a reservoir north of the city. Public service director Jeremy Hoyt said the water level normally… Read More
First responders see a lot of trauma. A new Ohio center hopes to help them heal
By: Kendall Crawford | The Ohio Newsroom
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BOARDMAN TOWNSHIP, Ohio (The Ohio Newsroom) — Police officers, firefighters and paramedics face higher rates of depression and PTSD than the general population. They’re more likely to die by suicide… Read More
The number of Ohio children without insurance has risen. Experts say it could grow
By: Kendall Crawford | The Ohio Newsroom
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CINCINNATI (The Ohio Newsroom) — Ohio has seen an increase in the number of children without health insurance since the unwinding of pandemic-era Medicaid continuous coverage. From 2022 to 2024,… Read More
An Ohio ‘Paper Girl’ returns home to reckon with America’s divides
By: Kendall Crawford | The Ohio Newsroom
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CINCINNATI (The Ohio Newsroom) — The small town of Urbana, in west central Ohio, looks a lot different than it did when Beth Macy grew up there. Employers left in… Read More
Ohio will pilot adding prior authorization requirements to Medicare
By: Kendall Crawford | The Ohio Newsroom
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CINCINNATI (The Ohio Newsroom) — Many private health insurers require medical providers to get approval before administering treatment, sometimes resulting in delayed or denied care for patients. Now, that tactic,… Read More
What’s the “Ohio accent?” Depends on where exactly you’re from
By: Richard Cunningham | Ideastream Public Media
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CINCINNATI (Ideastream Public Media) — Macedonia, OH native Brandon Saraniti grew up thinking he didn’t have an accent. But that all changed back in 2018, when he moved to Washington,… Read More
Ohio ended ticket quotas within police departments
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CINCINNATI (The Ohio Newsroom) — Toward the end of each month, you may hear people who are pulled over complain about police officers needing to meet a ticket quota. As… Read More
New regulations were about to impact Ohio steel manufacturers. Then the EPA hit pause
By: Adriana Martinez-Smiley | WYSO
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MIDDLETOWN, Ohio (WYSO) — Middletown resident Donna Ballinger said she can’t leave her windows open. “There’s usually smells — chemical smells, rotten egg smells — that burns your eyes and… Read More
Remembering Ray Brown, Alger’s forgotten baseball star
By: Erin Gottsacker | The Ohio Newsroom
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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
A ‘book end’ to bird flu: what did Ohio learn from the epidemic?
By: Shay Frank | WYSO
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YELLOW SPRINGS, Ohio (WYSO) — Ohio is better prepared for future bird flu outbreaks after curbing the most recent epidemic of highly pathogenic avian influenza that started last December. That’s… Read More
Parents must become ‘squeaky wheels’ to find special needs child care
By: Carolyn Robinson | Source Media Properties
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KNOX COUNTY, Ohio (SOURCE MEDIA PROPERTIES) — Cassandra Dailey was paying more than $500 a month to send her toddler to child care. Then, the youngster got kicked out. Her… Read More
The cost of child care is burdening Ohio’s families and economy. What can be done?
By: Erin Gottsacker | The Ohio Newsroom
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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
Two years after designation, this UNESCO site sheds its golf course trappings
By: Allie Vugrincic | WOSU
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NEWARK, Ohio (WOSU) — Two years ago, eight earthworks became Ohio’s first UNESCO World Heritage site. At the time, one of those locations, the Octagon Earthworks in Newark, was still… Read More
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Ohio schools got their report cards. Here’s how they’re faring
By: Conor Morris | Ideastream Public Media, Kendall Crawford | The Ohio Newsroom
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CINCINNATI (The Ohio Newsroom) — This week, the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce (DEW) doled out report cards for every public school district for the 2024-2025 school year. Instead… Read More
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