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Longtime judge and virtual self-help centers receive awards for Excellence and innovation
A longtime Perry County Municipal Court judge was presented with the Thomas J. Moyer Award for Judicial Excellence last week at the Ohio Judicial Conference annual meeting.
The Ohio State Bar Association presented the Moyer Award this year to retired Judge Dean Wilson. The bar association noted in an announcement that the award ... (full story)
Sports
What are you lifting for?
Did you ever stop to think about just what it is you’re trying to accomplish with respect to your resistance training program?
I ask this because it’s important to understand the way in which you train - the sets, repetitions, volume, load, frequency, rest intervals, order of exercises - needs to be specific to the r ... (full story)
Florida authorities arrest NC State's ex-head trainer accused of sex abuse of Wolfpack male athletes
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — N.C. State's former director of sports medicine faces felony and misdemeanor criminal charges after being accused of sexually abusing former Wolfpack male athletes under the guise of treatment, which previously led to more than 30 athletes outlining allegations in years of civil lawsuits.
Authorities i ... (full story)
Female racers struggle for sponsors and track time after leaving F1's women-only series
ZANDVOORT, Netherlands (AP) — Maya Weug seemed to be doing everything right.
She was the first female member of Ferrari’s young driver program, a front-runner in Formula 1’s developmental series for women, F1 Academy, and a star of its spinoff Netflix docuseries.
Now Weug has spent most of 2026 on the outsi ... (full story)
State
As work requirements kick in for Medicaid, some states are taking a tougher stance
Work requirements for some Medicaid beneficiaries begin across the U.S. in January, the result of President Donald Trump's big 2025 tax cut and policy law, and a handful of Republican-led states are imposing tougher rules than the law requires.
At issue is how someone can prove they are too medically frail to work. While federal ... (full story)
One shot or two? What to know about HPV vaccination recommendations
NEW YORK (AP) — Preteens may soon have something to celebrate: Medical experts are discussing the possibility that one dose of a life-saving cancer vaccine, instead of two, may be enough to protect them.
U.S. vaccination recommendations have become splintered in the past year, with federal officials and doctors' organizati ... (full story)
Anthropic and OpenAI sound the alarm on AI safety — and seek to shape how it's controlled
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — As tech titans warned an AI-weary world that their own advanced systems could endanger humanity, the question emerged: What do they have to gain?
The answer may lie in the companies’ efforts to score political goals ahead of the U.S. midterm elections and the money top artificial intelligence lab ... (full story)