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The Ohio Department of Public Safety is offering $15 Uber & Lyft vouchers through Project Plan Ahead this Halloween weekend for rides that start or end in Hamilton County, with additional vouchers released after the initial 2,000 were claimed, check the Project Plan Ahead site to claim one.

Meals on Wheels of Southwest Ohio and Northern Kentucky is running its Bust-a-Crust fundraiser now to raise money for senior meals, education, and community programs serving Hamilton-area seniors, with proceeds supporting seniors' independence and wellbeing.

Monroe is weighing safety changes to U.S. 63, including roundabouts, after receiving a $476,000 federal Safe Streets planning grant in 2024.

Residents urged quicker fixes at a recent meeting, and officials point to Franklin and Lebanon, which used similar plans to secure $3.2 million and $5 million for traffic work.

The Cardinal Land Conservancy is installing upgraded nest cameras at Bortz Family Nature Preserve next week to give viewers a closer live look at resident bald eagles Bonnie and Clyde 2; the pair are expected to return to the nest toward the end of November to rebuild for the season.

The Ohio Supreme Court filed an order Thursday that keeps about two dozen college basketball players in an eligibility dispute eligible to play, including Xavier’s Filip Borovicanin (and players at Gonzaga, Cincinnati, and Auburn), as the season opens next week.

Sixteen-year-old Meshaun Tubbs, a Forest Park teen battling a rare cancer recurrence who runs the nonprofit MightyMeshaun, is currently in first place to become the first-ever Stan Lee Super Kid; community members can cast a free daily vote online through Nov.

19 as local first responders rally behind him.

The VA deployed a new electronic health record system this week at Cincinnati, Chillicothe, Dayton and Fort Thomas medical centers, and more than (107,000 veterans, 7,200 clinicians) in southern Ohio will move to the system as the agency aims to reach all 170 sites by 2031.

Mike Herrmann of Cleves received a BiVACOR total artificial heart at Christ Hospital in 2024 as a bridge to transplant, received a donor heart weeks later, and says he’s thriving nearly two years after the implant as surgeons highlight the device’s potential to help more patients off transplant lists.