A field of 18,000 will snake its way through downtown, German Village, the campus area and other Columbus neighborhoods Sunday in the 35th running of the Nationwide Children’s Hospital Columbus Marathon & 1/2 Marathon.
Staff from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are joining Ohio health authorities in the Akron suburb of Tallmadge Thursday to trace anyone who may have been in contact with a nurse from Texas who was diagnosed with the Ebola virus after returning from northeast Ohio on Tuesday.
While reminding Ohioans that the risk of contracting the Ebola virus in Ohio is small, the state is issuing additional safety recommendations for care providers and health department officials and responding to the concern of nurses after it was announced that a Texas nurse who tested positive for the virus had visited northeast Ohio.
From classrooms to casinos, folks in northeast Ohio are taking an Ebola scare seriously.
Two separate shootings left one man dead and sent three other people to the hospital in Columbus overnight.
The Circleville Pumpkin Show has a new record for biggest pumpkin.
Emergency management officials say participating in a regional drill can help Ohio families, schools and businesses be prepared for a possible earthquake scenario.
Health officials say one person in Ohio has been voluntarily quarantined after having household contact with the Texas nurse who recently visited Ohio and was later diagnosed with Ebola.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says the Ohio Department of Health’s laboratory qualified to conduct initial testing for the Ebola virus, according to health officials who briefed reporters during a readiness exercise Tuesday.
After two weeks of early voting in Ohio’s Nov. 4 general election in Franklin County, in-person balloting is running ahead, and voting by mail running behind, the pace at the same point during Ohio’s most recent gubernatorial election in 2010, according to data released Tuesday by the Board of Elections..
