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 efforts in underserved parts of Ohio, like Perry, Morgan, Noble and Monroe counties.
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 sits above the dock, which now sits exposed to the sun.
"You can kinda see the staining," he said pointing to where the stone wall changes in color. "We just have not been able to fill it with the drought."
Police officers, firefighters and paramedics face higher rates of depression and PTSD than the general population.
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, about 30,000 more children became uninsured.
Thousands of eerie black birds have descended on Mansfield.
Some soared in on feathers. Others are shaped from clay or paint. All are unmistakably crows.
Each year for CrowFest, the Mansfield Art Center showcases more than 100 renderings of the ominous birds by artists across the region.
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, known as prior authorization, could be more prevalent in Ohio Medicare, the federal insurance program for seniors and people with disabilities.
In a small upstairs room of a Toledo church, Del Ray Grace is preserving a sacred piece of his Pentecostal upbringing. It isn't an altar or a cross – it's a steel guitar.
Starting in the 1930s, the instrument became the sound of worship in branches of the Church of the Living God, shaping a gospel tradition known as "sacred steel."
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 droves. Truancy rates skyrocketed. Rates of suicide and addiction soared. Access to local news dwindled. Suddenly, she saw confederate flags waving in her hometown that was once an important stop on the Underground Railroad.
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, D.C. for college. He was at a party and struck up a conversation with a girl named Amber. When he said her name, she winced.
Picture this, if you will, a young man from Binghamton, New York marches off to war. He enlists as a paratrooper in WWII. He leaves the conflict with psychological scars that time will not erase.
What follows isn't an episode out of "The Twilight Zone", but the origin of the man who dreamed it up: Rod Serling.
