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Schoolhouse in Licking County added to National School Registry
JOHNSTOWN, Ohio (WSYX) — A school dating back more than a century has gotten some national recognition. Cornell School, a one room schoolhouse in Johnstown has been added to the National School Registry by the Country School Association of America. It is the first Ohio school to receive this designation.
Charter school head pleads guilty to using $265,000 in school cash to buy New Albany home
The founder and superintendent of two Columbus charter schools pleaded guilty in federal court Monday to conspiring to commit bank fraud after using more than a quarter of a million dollars from the schools to help buy a house in New Albany. Abdirizak Y. Farah, 59, faces a possible sentence of up to 30 years in prison for his guilty plea, according to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio in Columbus. Sentencing...
2 Ohio Hospitals Continue To Earn ‘D’ Grade for Patient Safety
Find out what 2 hospitals in Ohio continue to have an issue with patient safety. Out of 177 hospitals in Ohio, only 2 earned the dreaded 'D' grade for patient safety according to HospitalSafetyGrade.org. There is both good news and bad news with this information. Let's get the bad news out of the way.
Nursing home residents deserve dignity. They shouldn't be forced to room with strangers.
Mike DeWine is governor of Ohio. It is easy to take the comforts of home for granted. Home is where we feel most secure and are best able to express ourselves; the ultimate safe haven and source of great personal pride. Unfortunately, these comforts are not available to thousands of...
“Absurd and Unnecessary,” Transgender Ohioans, Allies React to House Passage of Bathroom Ban Bill
The bill would require Ohio K-12 schools and colleges to mandate that students would only be able to use the bathroom or locker room that matches up with their gender assigned at birth.
Ohio opens rest area with 41 truck parking spaces
A “newly re-imagined” rest area located in Ohio officially opened to the public on Monday. On July 1, Ohio Governor Mike DeWine was on hand for a ribbon-cutting ceremony to officially open the Ashtabula County I-90 westbound Welcome Center in Conneaut, Ohio. According to the Ohio Department of...
Last-minute action speeds up Ohio’s ‘bathroom bill’
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — A last-minute act could expedite what has become a divisive bill at the Ohio Statehouse, known as the “bathroom bill.” “There’s extreme mileage that people get out of attacking LGBTQ rights,” Ohio Senate Minority Leader Nickie Antonio (D-Lakewood) said. “We want to protect children, and this is the way to do […]
Tornado officially hit Huron County Saturday breaking state record, NWS says
With storms hitting much of Northeast Ohio Saturday —knocking out thousands of residents' power — the National Weather Service has now announced a tornado did touch down briefly in Huron County.
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