Stephanie Czekalinski

Ohio turnpike officials announced Wednesday that service plazas will stock Naloxone, a nasal spray used to reverse opioid overdoses.

Many doctors call fall and early winter “concussion season” because they say the numbers increase dramatically — mostly from soccer and football. Ohio doctors are warning parents to be on the lookout for concussions and say it doesn’t necessarily take a dramatic hit to cause one.

A new Ohio law is expanding access to extra breast cancer screenings for people with an increased risk for breast cancer or who have dense breast tissue.

The Ohio Department Of Health has launched a new dashboard to track cases of monkeypox in local counties. As of Thursday, there have been 147 confirmed cases of monkeypox in Ohio across 19 counties.

The United Nations has offered to investigate the Akron police's fatal shooting of Jayland Walker, an attorney for the family said Wednesday during a press conference in downtown Akron.

Friends, family and community members remembered the life of Jayland Walker, the 25-year-old fatally shot by Akron police, at a funeral held Wednesday at the Akron Civic Theatre.

Two new COVID-19 subvariants — BA.4 and BA.5 — have become the dominant strains in parts of the Midwest, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates released last week.

About 50 people were arrested early Monday morning in downtown Akron for rioting and other charges after police say they did not leave the area after city officials issued a curfew order, according to an Akron police media release.

Walker, a 25-year-old Black man, was shot and killed by Akron police following a car chase early Monday.

In the minutes and hours after Roe v. Wade fell, the work continued inside this Ohio abortion clinic.