Today From The Ohio Newsroom

In Ohio, corn mazes are serious business

This story was originally published October, 21, 2025 on Midstory, a nonprofit newsroom based in Toledo.

LLCs and out-of-state investors are buying up Ohio homes

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.

Double double: Ohio witches are headed to Sandusky to set two new world records

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.

Mobile unit takes lung cancer screening on the road

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.

As data centers boom in Ohio, local communities are watching their water

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."

First responders see a lot of trauma. A new Ohio center hopes to help them heal

Police officers, firefighters and paramedics face higher rates of depression and PTSD than the general population.

The number of Ohio children without insurance has risen. Experts say it could grow 

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.

Ca-Caw! This Ohio city celebrates feathery harbingers of doom

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.

Ohio to pilot adding prior authorization requirements to Medicare

Many private health insurers require medical providers to get approval before administering treatment, sometimes resulting in delayed or denied care for patients.

Now, that tactic, known as prior authorization, could be more prevalent in Ohio Medicare, the federal insurance program for seniors and people with disabilities.

One Ohio man's mission to immortalize a 'sacred instrument'

In a small upstairs room of a Toledo church, Del Ray Grace is preserving a sacred piece of his Pentecostal upbringing. It isn't an altar or a cross – it's a steel guitar.

Starting in the 1930s, the instrument became the sound of worship in branches of the Church of the Living God, shaping a gospel tradition known as "sacred steel."