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    Ohio weather monitoring lags behind. A new network could mean better forecasts

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 16, 2025 4:43


    A network of new, high-tech weather monitoring stations could improve forecasts and emergency response in Ohio.

    For some Ohioans in recovery, legal help is the final step to a fresh start

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 15, 2025 4:44


    Ohio legal aid organizations are using opioid settlement dollars to connect people in recovery to attorneys.

    ‘Praying with their feet,' dancers in northern Ohio celebrate a centuries-old holiday

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 12, 2025 4:43


    In a small town in northern Ohio, a group of Mexican folk dancers will process through the streets on Saturday. They're celebrating the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe.

    Ohio landfills take drilling waste, but don't track or test much of it

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 11, 2025 4:45


    Oil and gas production creates a lot of waste in Ohio. Much of it goes to the same landfills as household trash.

    Seeing, hearing and touching the past: a new historical marker is an Ohio first

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 10, 2025 4:43


    The Sight Center of Northwest Ohio recently unveiled a new historical marker with braille and audio components. The organization believes it's the first of its kind in the state.

    One family over 15 years: an Ohio photographer captures Appalachian joy and struggle

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 9, 2025 4:44


    In ‘Legacy of Daughters', an Ohio photographer traces the life of Paige Casto from infancy to adulthood.

    Amid shortages, Ohio Supreme Court amends requirements for court interpreters

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 8, 2025 4:43


    The Ohio Supreme Court hopes some certification changes could ease a shortage of court interpreters.

    Forget silver bells. At TubaChristmas, the back-of-the-band brass rings in the holiday

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 5, 2025 4:44


    Tubas are often relegated to the back of the band. But at TubaChristmas concerts across Ohio, they get a chance to shine.

    Batter up! This Ohio teen was a first round pick for America's brand new professional baseball league

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 4, 2025 4:43


    Central Ohio native London Studer was a first round pick in the inaugural Women's Professional Baseball League draft.

    100 years ago, Ohio's first female sheriff donned her badge

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 3, 2025 4:29


    Maude Collins became Vinton County's sheriff in 1925, after her husband was killed in the line of duty.

    This Ohio village delivers baking staples, and holiday cheer, to neighbors who lost a spouse

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 2, 2025 4:30


    A Yellow Springs, Ohio, holiday tradition to deliver bags of flour and sugar to local widows and widowers dates back to 1894.

    How might drones respond to 911 calls? Ohio will be the first in the nation to find out

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 1, 2025 4:44


    Ohio is launching the nation's first statewide drone program for first responders.

    How the Tuskegee Airmen came to be stationed in Ohio

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 26, 2025 4:43


    The Tuskegee Airmen, a group of Black pilots who helped desegregate the U.S. military, were stationed in Columbus following World War II.

    A Cincinnati sitcom made a joke out of flying turkeys. But bird experts may have the last laugh

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 25, 2025 4:30


    In an iconic Thanksgiving episode of “WKRP in Cincinnati”, a failed turkey drop makes the news. But it may have (slightly) underestimated the large birds' flying abilities.

    How a text alert system is saving lives one “bad batch” at a time

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 24, 2025 4:27


    A Columbus-based nonprofit wants to alert drug users and their families across Ohio if there are reports of "bad batches" of drugs.

    A statewide conservation effort is saving Ohio's ‘snot otters'

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 21, 2025 4:44


    Eastern hellbenders are North America's largest salamanders. In Ohio, they're endangered.

    Why Ohio scientists - and some dairy producers - are against legalizing raw milk

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 20, 2025 4:43


    Ohio lawmakers have introduced a bill to legalize the sale of raw milk to consumers. The Ohio Dairy Producers Association opposes it.

    It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a free-fall parachute? The lifesaving device has Ohio roots

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 19, 2025 4:45


    James Floyd Smith and Leslie Irvin tested the first free-fall parachute at McCook Field in Dayton.

    A year into new ownership, violence still plagues Ohio's largest youth treatment center

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 18, 2025 4:43


    The Mohican Young Star Academy was almost shut down years ago. Today, staff, local law enforcement and community members say it's still struggling with violent incidents.

    More people are tripping. Ohio State wants providers to be prepared

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 17, 2025 4:45


    The use of psychedelics is on the rise. Ohio State University is launching a training program to ensure first responders know what to do.

    Could swamp-ifying northwest Ohio help curb toxic algal blooms?

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 14, 2025 4:44


    In an environmental memoir, Ohio native Patrick Wensink traces northwest Ohio's toxic algal bloom problems back to its swampy roots.

    Millions of Ohioans are caregivers. Many are struggling

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 13, 2025 4:41


    A survey by the AARP found 24% of Ohioans identified as caregivers. Mant reported emotional and financial stress.

    The 'Wright' women: how two Dayton women kept the brothers' planes – and legacy – aloft

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 12, 2025 4:43


    Ida Holdgreve and Katharine Wright helped sustain the Wright brothers' invention of flight.

    This Ohio veteran is fighting for mental health care in the state's most rural communities

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 10, 2025 4:46


    Dirk Harkins says Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation saved his life. Now, he's working to ensure more rural Ohioans have access to the medical treatment.

    The legendary ‘Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald' lives on in Ohio

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 7, 2025 4:44


    Toledo residents continue to honor the lives of the men lost in the shipwreck made famous by Gordon Lightfoot's haunting ballad.

    Ohio is expanding a program to help seniors age in place

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 6, 2025 4:42


    The Ohio Department of Aging is expanding a program to provide all-in-one care to older Ohioans — outside of a nursing home.

    An airship fell on rural Ohio. A century later, residents still tell its story

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 5, 2025 4:43


    The wreck of the USS Shenandoah is ingrained in the identity of Noble County, where residents still preserve remnants of the Zeppelin today.

    Once a swing state, does Ohio have any shades of purple left?

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 4, 2025 4:43


    A recent poll from the Bowling Green State University Democracy and Public Policy Research Network found next year's midterm races in Ohio could be close.

    Enrollment trends are up at Ohio universities, with a notable exception

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 3, 2025 4:44


    From Cleveland State to the University of Cincinnati, international student enrollment at Ohio colleges has plummeted.

    Smart trick-or-treaters know Dum-Dums are Ohio made

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 30, 2025 4:30


    Northwest Ohio candy maker Spangler Candy produces about 12 million Dum-Dums lollipops every day.

    In Lorain County, a door-to-door naloxone delivery is quietly saving lives

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 30, 2025 4:30


    In just three years, overdose deaths in Lorain County have dropped 55%. But the county's progress could be threatened by recent funding cuts.

    These Ohio hunters are bagging bucks to feed their neighbors

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 29, 2025 4:30


    In communities with an abundance of deer, Ohio hunters are donating their harvests to fight food insecurity.

    Politicians are focused on city crime. What about rural communities?

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 28, 2025 4:30


    Crime rates in Ohio's rural communities are often just as high as in the state's cities.

    A new Ohio council will bring nursing home residents together to voice their needs

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 27, 2025 4:30


    The Ohio Office of Long Term Care Ombudsman has launched a pathway for nursing home residents to connect across the state and make their voices heard.

    Meet the Ohio pumpkin carver turning gourds into gallery pieces

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 24, 2025 4:30


    Gus Smithhisler, known as ‘Squashcarver,' takes the fall tradition of pumpkin carving to a bigger scale.

    Wooster High students finally get a promised concert, five decades on

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 23, 2025 4:30


    The students won a Mitch Ryder concert in 1968, but the "Devil With A Blue Dress" singer didn't show. Now, he's making it right.

    In Ohio, corn mazes are serious business

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 22, 2025 4:30


    Since arriving in the U.S. in 1993, corn mazes have become a staple of fall fun. Mazes are just one example of agritourism, an industry which nearly doubled in revenue in Ohio between 2017 and 2022.

    LLCs and out-of-state investors are buying up Ohio homes

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 21, 2025 4:30


    A recent data analysis by the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland shows that, in recent years, more out-of-state investors have bought up single family homes.

    How one Ohio county is getting ready for future flash floods

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 20, 2025 4:30


    After receiving historic amounts of rainfall earlier this year, Athens County is embarking on a project to map flooding and erosion patterns.

    Double double: Ohio witches are headed to Sandusky to set two new world records

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 17, 2025 4:30


    The Sandusky Witches Walk, happening on Saturday, October 18, brings witches from across the world to Northwest Ohio for a massive costume contest and line dance.

    Mobile unit takes lung cancer screening on the road

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 16, 2025 4:30


    Smoking rates are high in rural parts of Ohio, but screening for lung cancer there can be hard to come by. A new mobile unit aims to help.

    As data centers boom in Ohio, local communities are watching their water

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 15, 2025 4:30


    Some Ohio communities are weighing the economic development data centers bring with the water they require.

    First responders see a lot of trauma. A new Ohio center hopes to help them heal

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 14, 2025 4:30


    Boardman Township is opening a wellness center this month for first responders across three Ohio counties.

    The number of Ohio children without insurance has risen. Experts say it could grow 

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 13, 2025 4:30


    The unwinding of Medicaid and its looming budget cuts could mean less access to health care for Ohio kids.

    Ca-Caw! This Ohio city celebrates feathery harbingers of doom

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 10, 2025 4:30


    The Mansfield Art Center hosts CrowFest each year to celebrate the birds' migration through Ohio.

    Ohio to pilot adding prior authorization requirements to Medicare

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 9, 2025 4:30


    Ohio is one of six states testing an AI-led prior authorization program for around a dozen medical procedures for patients enrolled in Medicare.

    One Ohio man's mission to immortalize a ‘sacred instrument'

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 8, 2025 4:30


    A Toledo musician has opened a museum to preserve the history of sacred steel, an African American gospel tradition built around the steel guitar.

    An Ohio ‘Paper Girl' returns home to reckon with America's divides

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 7, 2025 4:30


    Beth Macy's new memoir investigates the forces that have led her hometown of Urbana to suffer widening economic and political divides.

    What's the "Ohio accent?" Depends on where exactly you're from

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 6, 2025 4:30


    Ohio has at least three distinct accents, all of which were influenced by migration.

    For ‘The Twilight Zone' creator, Ohio was the portal into the fifth dimension

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 3, 2025 4:29


    Before he created one of the most enduring television series, Rod Serling learned to write in Ohio.

    New regulations were about to impact Ohio steel manufacturers. Then the EPA hit pause

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 2, 2025 4:31


    The U.S. EPA under President Trump paused the Biden-era requirements for two years.

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