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Yarenci Hernandez reported her birth father's abuse 13 years ago. His conviction only happened last month.

A Bloomberg Law investigation found that school districts in 19 states, including Ohio, have faced lawsuits for strip searching children and teenagers.

In Jefferson County, community members are working to help unhoused people, after its homeless shelters closed three months ago.

A mastodon bone will be on display at the Museum of Fulton County, nearly half a century after its original discovery.

In Washington County, local officials have passed resolutions in an attempt to protect drinking water from fracking waste. State officials haven’t taken heed.

Washington County in southeast Ohio has more injection wells storing wastewater from oil and gas drilling than the entire state of Pennsylvania.

Ohio has hundreds of injection wells that store waste from oil and natural gas production. In one southeast Ohio city, they’re causing concern.

The majority of Ohio's volunteer fire departments are staffed by volunteers. While the number of volunteers is decreasing, the number of calls those departments have to respond to is increasing.

Ohio’s volunteer firefighting system depends on the sacrifice of aging, underpaid and overworked Ohioans who serve their communities out of pride.

When many Ohioans call 911, the people who show up to help in their darkest hours are volunteers, armed with as little as 36 hours of training and often tasked with fighting bigger fires with fewer people than career departments.