JACKSON, Mich. – After a great week at the plate for the Mount Vernon Nazarene University softball team, Skylar Zimmerman earned her first career Crossroads League Softball Player of the Week on Monday, April 14. Zimmerman was on fire for the Lady Cougars as she finished the week batting .357 with three home runs, one double, and 13 runs batted …

COLUMBUS, OH & INDIANAPOLIS, IN – A pair of tractor-trailers with automated truck platooning technology began traveling Interstate 70 between Columbus, Ohio, and Indianapolis, Indiana, today delivering shipments for EASE Logistics. This deployment is a collaboration between the Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT)’s DriveOhio initiative and the Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) to advance the adoption of truck automation technologies in the logistics …

The Licking County Health Department’s (LCHD) Safe Communities Coalition reported one local crash fatality in March 2025. In March 2024, there was also one reported crash fatality. Year-to-date (March 31, 2025), there have been four crash fatalities in Licking County. At this time last year, there were three crash fatalities year-to-date (March 31, 2024). Our sincere condolences to the families …

SWACO has unveiled a new and improved version of its Business Recycling Champion program at a special screening of the movie, Beyond Zero, in conjunction with the Columbus Chamber of Commerce.  Beyond Zero focuses on the efforts of a billion-dollar business to reduce its environmental impact to nothing and, eventually, to even less than that.  SWACO’s Business Recycling Champion program …

MISHAWAKA, Ind. – The Mount Vernon Nazarene University softball team (17-12, 10-10 CL) played at Bethel University (8-26, 3-17 CL) on Thursday, April 10 in Mishawaka, Indiana. Game 1 Summary: MVNU got off to a speedy start, scoring eight runs through the first two innings of the game in the 12-3, run-rule win. MVNU had 11 hits in the game and saw …

(COLUMBUS, Ohio)— Ohio Governor Mike DeWine today announced $3 million in funding for 38 local law enforcement agencies to help their drug task forces combat illegal drug activity and enforce the state’s drug laws. Grants from the 2025 Ohio Drug Law Enforcement Fund will support drug task forces in their work to prevent drug trafficking, pharmaceutical diversion, and other organized criminal …

COLUMBUS – April is National Distracted Driving Awareness Month, and while distracted driving remains a significant concern in Ohio, new data indicates that two years after the state’s “phones down” law took effect, Ohio is seeing positive, lifesaving results. Ohio Governor Mike DeWine signed Senate Bill 288 in 2023. The bill strengthened the state’s distracted driving laws by making it a primary offense …

GRANVILLE, Ohio — The Kenyon College women’s tennis team plunged into the heart of its North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) slate on Wednesday evening. The No. 26-ranked Owls faced a difficult opponent in No. 29-ranked Denison University, but Kenyon dominated the Big Red on the road and earned an impressive 6-1 victory to get back in the win column and …

COLUMBUS, Ohio)—Ohio Governor Mike DeWine hosted a press conference today in support of legislation that would ban the use of cell phones in public schools in Ohio. Sponsored by Sen. Jane Timken (R-Jackson Township), Senate Bill 158 incorporates language first introduced by Governor DeWine in his executive budget – prohibiting student use of cell phones during the school day. “It’s clear that …