(Izu N./Staff) As the 8:05 bell rings, the hum of student chatter replaces buzzing notifications as 388 cell phones are safely tucked away until 3:20 p.m. A new Ohio law requires each school district, community school, and STEM school to adopt a policy prohibiting cell phone use by students during the instructional day starting on…

Flickr By August, Vivek Ramaswamy had raised $9.7 million in the opening months of his campaign for Ohio governor, compared to $1.4 million from Democrat Amy Acton. With Lt. Gov. Jim Tressel stepping aside, Ramaswamy now stands as the leading Republican contender in the 2026 race. Tressel announced this week that he would not seek…

Pixabay Baseball is back! On February 20, the Grapefruit League in Florida, consisting of 15 teams from the American League, took the field for the first time in 2025, while the National league started the following day in Arizona. While these games do not count to the team’s official record, you can get a good…

(Flickr.com) The PGA Tour’s Cognizant Classic concluded Sunday, March 2, at PGA National in the Palm Beaches, Florida, a tournament that has been played annually since 1972, and has been the host to many historic tournaments and winners. Twenty-four year old Joe Highsmith, a first-time winner, snatched the victory by two shots at 19 under…

(Wikimedia) NFL Combine: The 2025 NFL scouting combine is set for Thursday, February 27, all theway through to Sunday, March 2. The combine takes place at Lucas Oil Stadium inIndianapolis, home of the Colts. Players will compete in the 40-yard dash, vertical jump,bench press, broad jump, as well as position-specific drills, etc. Countless GMs and…

(Wikimedia) The NBA has resumed play post All Star break, and one team has emerged as a serious threat: the Los Angeles Lakers. Led by the superstar duo of LeBron James and the recently acquired Luka Doncic, the Lakers have been on fire, beating the 3-seed Nuggets to snap Denver’s nine-game win streak on Saturday,…

Flickr This past weekend, February 23-25, Germany awaited the results of Europe’s most important election of the year. The 2025 German federal election, held on February 23, was moved up due to intense political turmoil. In November 2024, Chancellor Olaf Scholz, leader of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), made the shocking decision to fire Finance…

On Sunday, February 2, the 67th annual Grammys Award was hosted in Los Angeles, California. Every year there’s typically controversy over who won what. This time, the topic of dispute is the winner of The Country Album of the Year. The five nominees consisted of Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter, Chris Stapleton’s Higher, Kacey Musgraves’ Deeper Well, Post Malone’s F-1 Trillion,…

Courtesy/Flickr) Four songs, five Grammies, and a high-profile lawsuit. Kendrick Lamar has had arguably the biggest year of his career so far, sweeping every category he was nominated for at the Grammys, holding the charts for 48 straight weeks and counting, and performing on one of the world’s biggest stages last weekend: the Super Bowl…

(Courtesy/Flickr) There’s a difference between being alone and being lonely. In the age of technology, with access to others being a message or call away, it seems like everyone knows everything about everyone. But is this perpetual access a good thing? Or do we need moments of solitude to decompress and center ourselves? I’ll admit,…