Drive across Ohio in the summertime and you'll see fields upon fields of corn.
Much of it will be used to produce ethanol or livestock feed, but a small fraction of those golden kernels will end up coated in butter at movie theaters or covered in caramel at carnivals.
Danielle Fletcher loves her quiet home in Hamilton Township in rural southern Ohio. But, she's worried that peace might be disrupted by a data center planned right across the street.
"I've been pushing my township trustees for meetings, trying to get more information, trying to get a moratorium," Fletcher said.
Lourdes University in northwest Ohio announced it will close at the end of this academic year.
The small Catholic college, which has resided in Sylvania for nearly 70 years, said declining enrollment and rising costs have left the school with no other choice.
Ohio nearly topped the list of 'anti-LGBTQ incidents' in 2025.
The HBCU Radio Preservation Project preserves and honors the legacy of Black college radio. The WYSO effort safeguards at-risk historical media and gathering oral histories to explore how HBCU radio stations serve their campuses and communities.
Len Vonderhaar has been farming corn and soybeans in Preble County since 1962. Each year his love has only grown for his around 2,000-acre utopia.
"We just, we live in a paradise right here in the Midwest," he said.
One of his greatest joys is being out in the field, working alongside his son and grandson. At 87 years old, he's never once considered stopping.
The role Ohio played in the Civil War can seem, at first glance, to be simple: the state was part of the Union fighting to abolish slavery.
But the situation on the ground was a little more complicated.
On a cold winter day, Train Robinson's breath clouded in the dim light in the Zanesville Police Athletic League gym as he dealt out a bit of "tough love" during drills.
"Now we're gonna double back. Double back," Robinson instructed one of his boxers. "Garfield, I'm about to put a glove on and punch you in your forehead, boy. Get back up there where you're supposed to be."
She's been called "America's Shakespeare" and one of Ohio's "Black queens." Wednesday kicks off a yearlong celebration of one of the most revered authors of the past century: Toni Morrison. The life, literature and legacy of the Lorain native are being honored statewide, starting on what would have been her 95th birthday.
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