No matter what time you call the 988 suicide prevention line, someone is there to answer. Today, James Reeves picks up the phone.
“Thank you for calling 988. Can I help you?,” Reeves said into his headset on an August day at the Talbert House, a crisis call center in Cincinnati.
The sun is the only spotlight for the circus performers who bound onto a ramshackle raft, docked in Parkersburg, West Virginia just across the river from Belpre, Ohio.
Ohio has nearly 400 vacant volunteer firefighter positions, according to job listings compiled by Make Me A Firefighter.
The 2024 Paris Paralympics start today and Dayton Police Officer Byron Branch will be participating.
Branch lost a leg in the line of duty back in 2016. Now, he’s headed to Paris to compete for gold.
Jeff Probst’s family has owned farmland in Warren County, northeast of Cincinnati, for 85 years. Over the generations, they’ve tried all kinds of things to keep it profitable: from row-cropping to raising cattle and hogs.
During the pandemic, emergency rental assistance helped slash the number of evictions in the state. With those funds running out, many Ohio counties’ eviction rates are on the rise again.
A giant of the television world, Phil Donahue, died this week at 88. Born in Cleveland, Donahue was dubbed the “king of daytime talk” for his program which aired from 1967-96. He hosted everyone from entertainers to presidents.
Over the course of 18 years, Ohio and its communities are receiving nearly $2 billion from pharmaceutical companies to compensate for harm caused by opioids.
Ten years ago on an August evening, a young Black man was shopping at a Walmart in Beavercreek, east of Dayton. He was talking on the phone, holding a BB gun he picked up from a store display.
A fellow shopper mistook it for a loaded rifle, and called the police. Two officers arrived at the store. They shot and killed John Crawford III in the pet food aisle.
Samantha Stewart always wanted a big family, so over the past few years, the door to her home has been rotating. She and her husband have fostered seven kids.
On a summer afternoon, two of those children play in the living room, doing somersaults and singing songs from “Frozen."
