Today From The Ohio Newsroom

Ohio University researchers tested autonomous vehicles like this one on rural roadways in southeast Ohio as part of a four-year-long collaborative study.

Self-driving cars are on their way to southeast Ohio

Self-driving cars already roam the streets of cities like San Francisco and Austin, Texas. But how do they fare on the hilly terrain of Ohio’s southeast?

Ohio has designated the majority of its coronavirus relief funds. Here’s where the money is going

Billions of dollars came to Ohio through the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) to help mitigate the impact of the coronavirus in 2021. Now, three years later, the majority of the state’s coronavirus relief funds have been committed to a cause.

Scott Shawver and Ray Macklin broadcast the blues every day from TruBlues975 in Marion.

This small Ohio radio station is saving the blues

Each weekday morning, Ray Macklin, known as “Silky Ray” in the blues music world, helps Marion wake up with soulful vocals, sliding guitar riffs and syncopated rhythm.

“Good morning, good morning,” Macklin announced over the air on a recent Tuesday morning as he cued up a setlist of blues songs. “It’s TruBlues, baby.”

The Pickaway County Community Action Agency purchased the Soap-n-Hope Mobile Hygiene Unit using $85,000 from a local opioid settlement fund. The unit offers free showers and laundry machines to the area's growing unhoused population.

Taking showers on the road: How a “Soap-n-Hope” effort aims to address growing homelessness

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 Ohio Newsroom is following the money. This is our settlement story of the month.

It’s just after 9 o’clock in the morning and the sky is clear blue, the air just crisp enough that Tommy Morrison can see his breath.

Evin King was freed from prison in April of 2017, after serving 23 years for a murder he didn't commit. King was a client of the Ohio Innocence Project, which has helped free dozens of wrongfully convicted Ohioans over the past two decades.

Takeaways from conversations with wrongfully convicted Ohioans

Central Ohio native Richard Horton was released from prison last year — more than a decade after he was jailed for a crime he didn’t commit.

A worm rests in a clump of soil in Nathan Brown's hand on his farm in Hillsboro. It's a sign of good soil health.

“Climate change” can turn off some farmers. So these scientists are using another two-word phras

Nathan Brown always keeps a shovel in the bed of his truck. That’s a sure sign a farmer is serious about soil health, he said.

“In the spring and the summertime, I’m always digging,” Brown said as he shoveled some dirt from his 1,200 acre farm in Hillsboro into his gloved hands on a warm November afternoon.

Calls to Ohio's problem gambling helpline have surged in the past two years, after the state legalized sports betting. In response, the Problem Gambling Network of Ohio launched a telehealth service that can help Ohioans struggling with the behavior no matter where they live.

A statewide telehealth service is changing the game for Ohioans with gambling addictions

Aubrey Price’s office is covered in posters illustrating therapeutic techniques. She’s a counselor at the Zepf Center, which houses one of the largest gambling treatment programs in Ohio.

When someone with a gambling problem comes to her office for the first time, she often starts by evaluating their behavior.

Joel Shenk, a pastor at Toledo Mennonite Church, is forging tools to live out his faith.

Meet the Ohio pastor turning guns into garden tools

Joel Shenk believes his hammer is an instrument of peace.

On an October day, he repeatedly smashed it down into an anvil at Toledo Mennonite Church, where he serves as a pastor. The red-hot metal on the receiving end once had a life as a weapon.