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Northeast Ohio road construction: New detours and delays keep popping up
CLEVELAND, Ohio — We’re well into the road construction season in Northeast Ohio but there are still new detours and delays popping up on area roadways. The Ohio Department of Transportation has released its latest list of new impacts the region’s drivers can expect over the next few weeks.
Woman hits $2 million prize on Ohio Lottery scratch-off game: Here's where she bought the winning ticket
LORAIN, Ohio — We have a big lottery winner in Northeast Ohio as Mary Caudill of Lorain recently hit the top prize worth $2 million on the Maximum Millions scratch-off ticket. The Ohio Lottery says Caudill won the annuity prize of $80,000 a year for 25 years, which totals...
GOP picks Linton to run for commission seat he was re-appointed to
LOGAN — Following last week's re-appointment to office, the Hocking County Republican Party voted Tuesday evening to solidify Michael Linton's position as county commissioner. The vote was without much drama or discussion. Party chair Mike Harris called Linton's appointment a "99% likelihood" last week, and the result followed suit. What was a matter of more uncertainty was whom the party would nominate for the unexpired term of resigning commissioner Jessica...
Man charged with meth dealing wants charges dropped based on long wait for trial
LOGAN — In the criminal case of a Cincinnati man who allegedly had two pounds of methamphetamine in his car when he was stopped in Hocking County, there has reportedly been some difficulty in getting the suspected drug tested to see if it’s actually meth. Now, according to a motion filed by the defense attorney for James Toran, delays in getting test results have kept Toran in jail awaiting trial for longer than state law allows, and the entire case against him should be dismissed on speedy trial grounds. ...
Friday Night Futbol: High school soccer teams embrace spotlight of opening games
High school soccer takes center stage under the Friday night lights this week as teams across northwest Ohio get an early opportunity to highlight the sport, its coaches, and its players. Dozens of area boys and girls soccer teams will participate in the “Friday Night Futbol” event. “Anytime our sport is in the limelight, it's a positive for us all,” Findlay girls coach Mike Aubry said. “I know that our players are really excited about the opportunity to play under the lights and get their season kicked off. Futbol Friday gives us such great publicity around the area.” In 2015, the Ohio High School Athletic Association started the statewide initiative where soccer games take place the Friday before the high school football season kicks off. The OHSAA permits the soccer games to be played one day earlier than the traditional Saturday start of the soccer season.
JD Vance finds new voice in favorite Trump megaphone: JD Vance in the news
Ohio Sen. JD Vance rediscovered his Truth Social account Wednesday morning, using one of former President Donald Trump’s favorite megaphones to launch a slew of criticisms at their opponents for the White House. Vance, who opened his account on Trump‘s Truth Social platform in 2022, had not been posting...
2024 Ohio Women's Soccer Preview
ATHENS, Ohio – — Last season, the Ohio women's soccer team won the first Mid-American Conference Championship in team history. It also made its first ever NCAA Tournament appearance. This season, it hopes to do that and more. "Everybody is going to ask about how do you repeat...
Navarro ready to step in and succeed in his first chance leading the Bobcats
There’s a reason why the quarterback position is looked at as the premier position in arguably any of the major sports that engulf our consciousness at all times. It takes a certain breed of leader and borderline psychopath to put themselves in such harm and danger in hopes of reaching the pinnacle of sports. Quarterbacks, without a doubt, have the most praise sung about them while also have the most scrutiny out of any position in American sports. Though, sometimes it takes a bit of...
VP nominee JD Vance to dissolve last vestige of mothballed charity, give its $11K to Appalachia
The Trump campaign says Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance is preparing to dissolve what's left of the modest charitable effort he launched to help people in Appalachia after writing
Redistricting amendment backers slam ‘manipulating’ ballot language written by Frank LaRose
COLUMBUS, Ohio - Backers of a ballot issue that would change how state legislative and congressional districts are drawn in Ohio say ballot language written by Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose is illegally manipulative. The charge by the Citizens Not Politicians campaign comes after it received the proposed language...
JD Vance Interview With Rape-Advocating Anti-Immigrant Writer Resurfaces
JD Vance's appearance on a podcast in 2021 has caused quite a stir online after social media users looked into the show's host. The post JD Vance Interview With Rape-Advocating Anti-Immigrant Writer Resurfaces first appeared on Mediaite.
As Northeast Ohio’s drought ends, an extreme drought creeps into southern counties
CLEVELAND, Ohio — The state of Ohio’s drought, which is the worst in the entire Midwest this summer, has both good news and bad news. The good news is that Northeast Ohio, which has been in a moderate drought for seven weeks, has finally emerged from its drought, according to this week’s U.S. Drought Monitor update, released on Thursday.
Weather alert. Storms — some severe — coming Friday with rainy weekend expected
The last thing weather weary northern Ohio needs is another round of storms and potentially flooding rain. The National Weather Service says rain will start as early as Thursday night and continue all the way through Monday. ...
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