AAA predicts 35.3million Americans, including more than 1.5 million Ohioans, will travel at least 50 miles from home between Thursday Sept. 3and Monday Sept. 7. This is an increase of 1 percent nationwide and 1.8 percent for Ohio from Labor Day 2014 and marks the highest number of travelers since 2008. Rising wages and lower gas prices continue to help boost Read more
The Ohio State Highway Patrol is reporting zero fatalities, three injury crashes and 10 property damage crashes on the Ohio stretch of I-80 during the multi-state I-80/I-35 Challenge. The initiative began Aug. 28 and ended Aug. 30. Troopers responded to 1,159 total incidents and issued 41 safety belt citations. OSHP joined Read more
The chain already tested out the delivery service in six schools, and will begin their expansion this fall. Chipotle just made it easier for college students to get their burrito fix. The Mexican fast food chain announced yesterday they are going to start delivering their grub to college campuses. Chipotle, Read more
A report by the American Academy of Pediatrics says it’s important for parents to talk to kids about drinking before they turn 10. “Surveys indicate that children start to think positively about alcohol between ages 9 and 13 years. The more young people are exposed to alcohol advertising and marketing, Read more
We all know too well that language is continually expanding. Now a whole new slew of words have been added to the online version of the Oxford English Dictionary, and some may surprise you. For example, manspreading, used to describe when men sit spread their legs on public transportation, has Read more
When we think about where we’d like to live, lots of things come to mind. We want to know about the weather, what the job opportunities are like, the feel of the city, the cost of living, if there are lots of available men, you know all the important things. Read more
Athletes throughout Northeast Ohio are getting ready to “Lace Up 4 Pediatric Cancer” in support of children, teens and young adults with cancer at Akron Children’s Hospital’s Showers Family Center for Childhood Cancer and Blood Disorders.Akron Children’s is once again teaming up with Go4theGoal to urge local middle, high school, Read more
It’s no secret that we have a childhood obesity problem in America, and parents, according to most doctors you should be blaming yourself for it. According to a new poll of physicians, 69-percent believe that parents are completely or mostly to blame for the childhood obesity epidemic. Even 30 percent Read more
Akron Children’s Hospital has notified 7,664 patient families that a hard drive of back-up transport voice recordings is lost. The recordings do not contain Social Security numbers or financial information, but some include names and information considered to be protected health information. The hard drive was in a locked, secure Read more
According to a new report by iSheriff, close to 45 percent of Americans have had their health information compromised because of a cyber attack. And over five years, there has been over 143 million patients’ records compromised. And sadly, according to the report, many health organizations don’t even realize how Read more
