Like a lot of Ohioans, Gus Smithhisler gets the itch to carve a pumpkin each autumn. But, instead of going to a grocery store or a pumpkin patch, he brings in a forklift.
"We haven't had one this big for a while," the forklift operator told Smithhisler, as he directed a massive pumpkin onto a wooden pallet.
Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels are performing in Ohio this weekend. But instead of playing the Agora Theater or the Beachland Ballroom, the octogenarian Rock and Roller will be playing the slightly more intimate venue: Wooster High School's Performing Arts Center. That's all because of an effort by Wooster High School's Class of 1971.
This story was originally published October, 21, 2025 on Midstory, a nonprofit newsroom based in Toledo.
It's a hard time to be a prospective homebuyer in Ohio and across the country. Home prices have barely declined in the last year, as interest rates have stayed steady.
In an era of technological advancements that challenge the things we've believed to be true for centuries, civilized society is coming to terms with a reality once thought to be merely a fairytale: Witches are everywhere.
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.
