Northeast Ohio native Parker Finn enjoys giving people nightmares.
And he’s good at it. Finn wrote and directed the movie “Smile”, where a psychiatrist is followed by an evil force that manifests itself as her loved ones wearing sinister grins. She soon discovers she’s just one in a long-line of people who have been haunted by a smile.
Between the high costs of running a farm, unpredictable weather and fluctuating markets, farming can be a stressful profession — so much so that the suicide rate among farmers is an estimated three times higher than the general popula
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 counselor called for help, but not from 911 or even 988. They dialed 1-888-418-6777 — the state number for Mobile Response and Stabilization Services, or MRSS.
Over the course of a few days in mid-September, posters cropped up in cities across Ohio.
They are royal blue, teal, red and white with bold designs: a ballot box as a speaker, a dove carrying a banner, a hand picking a petal of a flower.
And all of them have the same message: VOTE!
Tire marks paint the black concrete of a secluded parking lot on University of Northwestern Ohio’s campus in Lima. This semester, student Eric Kananowicz is adding to the canvas.
His tricked-out car spun across the pavement. Clouds of smoke and dust engulfed it as he did donuts around a pole. The car looked like it could spin out at any moment.
This weekend, the city of Loveland, a suburb of Cincinnati, is hosting an inaugural festival to honor a notorious amphibian: the Loveland Frogman.
“Imagine about a three or four-foot-tall biped frog with what’s been mentioned as scaly or sometimes slimy skin,” described Brian Maxson, the owner of a barbershop in town.
Last year, Ohio expanded its school voucher program so that all families, regardless of income, can apply for private school scholarships. Now, the state is taking it a step further.
Memorial Health System, headquartered in southeast Ohio, broke ground on a new hospital Tuesday. Once built, it’ll be the only women and children’s hospital in the region.
“For the first time ever in this part of Appalachia, we're going to have a true women's and children's campus,” said Scott Cantley, the health system’s CEO.
More than 100 public school districts in Ohio will be asking voters to either approve or renew a tax levy, bond issue or income tax when they head to the polls this November.
Many Ohio universities erupted in protest last spring over the Israel-Hamas war. And with the upcoming election, Ohio universities are preparing for even more polarizing political discussion.
Some are launching civil discourse initiatives.
