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Let's get it on: Here are some top games to watch this high school football season
Football season is here. Well, almost. Teams have been dialed into summer workouts since June, with team camps, lifting and 7-on-7s the main courses on the menu. Summer vacation? Ha! ...
Ohio sees spike in out-of-state abortions, but access to abortion care can be challenging
Even though abortion is legal in Ohio, accessing abortion care can be burdensome Northwest and Southeast Ohio don’t have any surgical abortion centers — meaning folks in those corners of the state have to travel far distances, sometimes even going out-of-state, to receive abortion care. “People go wherever they can get in quickest and that […]
Climate change contributes to shift in Lake Erie’s harmful algal blooms
Broadcast version by Farah Siddiqi for Ohio News Connection reporting for the Solutions Journalism Network-Public News Service Collaboration. Lake Erie's harmful algal blooms have started sooner and had longer peak periods over the past decade compared to earlier years, newly released data shows. Warming temperatures linked to climate change are a cause, according to researchers for NOAA's National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science, with interactions among species likely playing a role as well.
Medical marijuana users say recreational use is pricing them out
CINCINNATI (WXIX) - Recreational marijuana sales in Ohio are soaring after it became legal last week, but it’s causing problems for medical marijuana patients who say they’re now getting priced out. Marijuana for medical use has been legal in Ohio since 2016. But the sudden influx of buyers...
Knowles notebook: Buckeyes' DC bullish on DL depth | Concerned about safety depth | Arvell Reese on the rise
Ohio State's starting defensive line is extremely veteran and could be one of the better units in the country this season. The group features four seniors, including ends Jack Sawyer and J.T. Tuimoloau, as well as tackles Ty Hamilton and Tyleik Williams. Defensive coordinator Jim Knowles met with the media...
VP nominee JD Vance to dissolve last vestige of mothballed charity, give its $11K to Appalachia
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Republican vice presidential nominee U.S. Sen. JD Vance is preparing to dissolve the vestiges of a charitable effort he launched in Ohio after publication of his best-selling memoir “Hillbilly Elegy,” the Trump-Vance campaign said. Vance formed two like-named nonprofits starting in 2016 to address problems in Ohio and other “Rust Belt” states. They were primarily supposed to focus on boosting job opportunities, improving mental health treatment and combating the opioid crisis. The original organization folded within five years and Vance put the other on hold when he ran successfully for the Senate in 2022. He faced criticism during the race over how little the groups accomplished. Despite Vance’s stated intentions to identify and produce national solutions to those problems, the nonprofits’ only notable achievement was paying to send an addiction specialist to southern Ohio for a year who had questioned the well-documented role of prescription painkillers in the national opioid crisis. Vance has acknowledged that the groups’ efforts fell far short of his aspirations. One of the groups — a foundation — filed paperwork in April reinstating the corporate status it had allowed to expire in 2022.
National grant to enhance local dementia-specific respite care
Jewish Family Service of Cincinnati received $147,206 from the Alzheimer’s Association Center for Dementia Respite Innovation to enhance the quality and availability of dementia-specific respite care for people living with dementia and their caregivers across the region. Nationwide, 21 organizations received the grant and JFS was the only one...
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