A half dozen men living in Greater Cleveland have a special brotherhood: They all were accused and convicted of crimes they maintain they never committed.
Several have been exonerated. Two men are still fighting for that designation now that they are out of prison after taking a plea or receiving parole.
Christy Bening works to bring a dead language to life in her classroom at the Columbus Academy. As she helps her students prepare for a Latin test, she connects Roman mythology to Harry Potter.
“Salazar, Slytherin and all those guys are based on Sisyphus,” she said, standing beside her classroom’s walls graffitied with Latin phrases. “Voldemort, why? Because he wants to cheat death.”
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.
The OneOhio Recovery Foundation is charged with distributing 55% of those funds.
But its board lacks racial diversity and that’s caused concern among families and harm reduction groups.
Donna Cordell and Bill Myers graduated in the same class as Democratic Senator Sherrod Brown from Mansfield Senior High School in the North Central Ohio community in 1970.
“I met him my sophomore year,” said Cordell. “He was easy to approach, easy to talk to. We were not surprised that he went into politics because he knows how to work a crowd. “
Editor’s note: Every Tuesday leading up to November 5th, we’re examining a different issue at stake in the election. This week, we’re looking at the roots of the candidates in Ohio’s senate race: incumbent Democrat Sherrod Brown and Republican challenger Bernie Moreno.
Postpartum depression affects a lot of women. Research suggests about 1 in 7 new moms deal with it.
Many of the traditions of the American West are lost to us now. Most will never know what it’s like to ride a wagon train, move a herd of cattle out of state or die of consumption.
But there’s still one great cowboy pastime that can be enjoyed, and Ohio is at the heart of it.
Around 18,000 people were released from Ohio’s prisons in 2022. Another 75,000 Ohioans were released from jail that year.
Todd Drake calls himself the ‘Quaker Pirate’.
The name comes from an old story about a Quaker boy named Obadiah who begs his parents to let him become a pirate.
“His parents eventually say, ‘Well, Obadiah, if you're going to be a pirate, be a good Quaker pirate,’” Drake recalled.
Last night, the Ohio Supreme Court ordered minor changes to ballot language for Issue 1, the redistricting amendment.
