On an early spring day, lkids lined up outside the Cincinnati's Zoo's giraffe habitat, waiting for an opportunity to feed the animals over a fence.
One of the giraffes, Zoey, ambled over, sticking her purple tongue out, swiping a leaf and biting down with a crunch.
Her afternoon snack wasn't grown on a farm thousands of miles away.
Thousands of people are descending in northeast Ohio this weekend for a sweet annual tradition: the Geauga County Maple Festival.
Founded nearly a hundred years ago in 1926, it claims to be the oldest maple festival in the country and the largest in Ohio.
Noble County Commissioner Allen Fraley says the opioid epidemic threatened the fabric of his rural eastern Ohio community.
"You couldn't go to a football game. You just couldn't go to church. You couldn't go to an ice cream social without knowing somebody's whole family was hurting," Fraley said.
Last week, Pixelle Specialty Solutions announced plans to close its Chillicothe paper mill.
When Tony Zartman first ran for Paulding County Commissioner in 2009, he said the local government was so poor, it could barely afford to replace a lightbulb.
"It was terrible," he said. "Our community was really strapped for funds for just the daily necessities."
Reeling from the Great Recession, the northwest Ohio county closed its jail and cut hours for government employees.
For Cincinnatians, the sight of a small lizard scurrying across a sidewalk or hanging out on an alley wall isn't surprising. For more than 70 years, European common wall lizards, known locally as Lazarus lizards, have lived in the Queen City.
Some people like to play, and some people live to play. A new movie in theaters, called "The Luckiest Man in America," tells the real-life story of Michael Larson, an Ohio man on a mission to outsmart a popular game show.
The 1980s game show “Press Your Luck” combined a bit of trivia with a bit of hand eye coordination and a lot of, well, luck.
Constance Packard lives in a modest, tidy home in Massillon, Ohio. At 94, she's tired of cooking. Most of her meals are grab and go: something she can get out of the freezer.
For decades, Ohio cities like Mansfield have experienced economic turmoil, loss of industry and subsequent population decline. But, in recent years, the northeast Ohio city has reversed that trend.
Outside the Harrison Township Fire Department, in Pickaway County south of Columbus, a car erupted into flames.
As black smoke billowed from its open windows, a trio of firefighters aimed a thick hose toward the blaze.
No one was hurt in this car fire. It was a test to see if the soybean-based foam that firefighters sprayed onto the flames could successfully smother them.
