Today From The Ohio Newsroom

Youngstown’s Kwanzaa celebration brings people together with dance

Each December, kids stomp their feet and sway in brightly colored, traditional African skirts at New Bethel Baptist Church in Youngstown. They jump and bow their heads to the rhythm set by a troupe of young drummers.

Meet Ohio’s master mandolin maker

This article was originally published on May 3, 2024.

The walls in Don MacRostie’s studio in Athens County are covered in tools. Screwdrivers and scissors hang above tin cans full of markers and brushes. Piles of wood line tabletops and everything is covered in a light layer of sawdust.

Meet Ohio’s master mandolin maker

This article was originally published on May 3, 2024.

The walls in Don MacRostie’s studio in Athens County are covered in tools. Screwdrivers and scissors hang above tin cans full of markers and brushes. Piles of wood line tabletops and everything is covered in a light layer of sawdust.

Ohio doesn’t have enough dentists. It causes a lot more than bad breath

This article was originally published on Aug. 7, 2024.

Hal Jeter has been a family dentist in South Point, along the river where Kentucky and West Virginia meet Ohio, for nearly 30 years. He knows the dentist can be scary for kids, so he does his best to make tooth extractions and cavity fillings fun.

A service for youth in crisis is expanding across Ohio

This article was originally published on Oct. 16, 2024.

When Maxx Richards was in sixth grade, they were having a really hard time at school.

“I went to my school counselor for doing self-harm,” they said.

The ultimate underground holiday: Christmas in a cave

If it weren’t for the colorful lights and holiday tunes marking Minford’s Christmas Cave as a seasonal destination, the entrance would be easy to miss.

What Trump’s win could mean for solar manufacturing in Ohio

This is the final story in a three-part series about the impact of solar tariffs on manufacturing overseas and in Ohio. The series was supported by the Pulitzer Center. 

Southeast Asian solar manufacturers look elsewhere to escape tariffs

This is the second story in a three-part series about the impact of solar tariffs on manufacturing overseas and in Ohio. The series was supported by the Pulitzer Center. 

Tariffs are changing the global solar market. An Ohio company played a role

Inside a factory owned by Ohio-founded First Solar, machine techs monitor screens as glass panels are sanded down, coated with a thin layer of cadmium telluride and tested. Automated machinery manipulates the panels in a maze of conveyor belts inside the massive warehouse.

As Ohio’s opioid settlement funds get dispersed, families who lost loved ones feel left behind

The opioid crisis is personal for Brenda Ryan.

She started her nonprofit, Keys 2 Serenity, in Cuyahoga Falls after her own daughter, Sheena, passed away from an opioid overdose in 2016. Sheena was survived by her 5-year-old child.