Go to any sporting event at the Ohio State University, and there's a good chance you'll encounter Brutus Buckeye. The crowd-riling character is famous for his energetic headbanging and carefully balanced headstands.
But 60 years ago, the Ohio State icon didn't exist.
At London High School in central Ohio, five girls lined up for a snap. Their coach Brannon Edley prepped them for their next play.
"You're going to run, and then hit Carly going that way," Edley explained. "Got it?"
At the snap of the football, the girls broke apart and sprinted down the field, as the quarterback launched the football toward a pair of bright pink gloves.
An Ohio commission is considering proposals to lease thousands of acres of a remote state-owned wildlife area for fracking.
Spring in Ohio brings sunshine, blooming flowers – and a deeply hated bug.
As rainy spring weather washes phosphorus off farmfields, a series of new filters in northwest Ohio's Defiance County are working to catch the nutrient — before it gets into the streams and waterways that feed Lake Erie.
Every week, Milo Miller is in charge of publishing a paper. Instead of relying on a newsroom full of beat reporters and columnists, his paper The Budget looks to handwritten letters from across the country.
"These would be letters that came today," he said as he leafed through a basket of letters. "[There's] Williamsburg, Kentucky; Millersburg, Ohio; Rexford Montana…"
Twenty-one years ago this spring, the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency and others were working to transform the former Fernald uranium processing facility in northwest Hamilton County into a nature preserve.
When Ohioans think of college football, their minds probably jump to Ohio State University: the stadium jam packed with fans, chanting and cheering; the dedicated reporters covering the highs and lows, touchdowns and fumbles; the players bringing home the championship trophy year after year.
But, that's not the experience on every college campus. Ask Oberlin student Anna Slade.
More than twenty years ago, an Ohio researcher brought wild apple tree seeds from Central Asia to Central Ohio.
As companies like Intel, Stellantis and First Quality Tissue invest hundreds of millions of dollars into Ohio
