Columbus
Technology helping Columbus school bus drivers navigate routes – News – The Columbus Dispatch
The cutting-edge navigation system gives drivers real-time traffic information to improve on-time performance. Eventually, the system could be integrated with scanned student identification cards, allowing parents to monitor when their kids on the bus. For years, bus drivers for Columbus City Schools have transported thousands of children every day by reading their daily routes printed …
Jewish Community Center event Sunday to promote health, safety – News – The Columbus Dispatch
The Jewish Community Center of Greater Columbus is welcoming the community onto its property Sunday for a Health and Safety Awareness Day featuring 32 local agencies. There will be fire trucks, police cars, giveaways, food and more at the free event, which is aimed at educating everyone from children to seniors on a spectrum of …
Tracking fitness in 2019: Some find benefits in new technology | WBNS-10TV Columbus, Ohio
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Fitness trackers come in all shapes and sizes on all kinds of people. 10TV talked with one woman who credits her fitness tracker for getting her back into shape after a setback. “I feel like I certainly am stronger and certainly have more stamina coming off of that post-surgery crash when you’re …
Ohio State ranks No. 5 in the AP preseason college football poll | WBNS-10TV Columbus, Ohio
For the first time, the defending national champion Tigers are No. 1 in The Associated Press preseason Top 25 presented by Regions Bank . Clemson won its second national title in three seasons behind freshman quarterback Trevor Lawrence to claim equal standing with Alabama at the top of the sport. The Crimson Tide, coming off …
With Planned Parenthood defunded, who’s taking care of Ohio women’s health? – News – The Columbus Dispatch
When Ohio lawmakers moved to eliminate funding for Planned Parenthood a few years ago, supporters of the legislation said community clinics and other state-funded providers would pick up the slack on women’s health services. So far, though, little slack has appeared. Planned Parenthood in Ohio, for the most part, has used private funds to maintain …
10 dead including suspect, 16 injured in Dayton shooting | WBNS-10TV Columbus, Ohio
DAYTON, Ohio – Police in Dayton say they are investigating a shooting where nine people were killed in addition to the suspected shooter. The shooting happened at 1 a.m. Sunday in the area of East 5th Street in the Oregon District in Dayton. At least 16 people went to area hospitals to be treated or …
Send Help! Technology leaves him sitting in the dark – Lifestyle – Columbus Alive
A few years back, after attending a meeting in a brand new building on the university campus where I worked, I popped into the lavatory for a break. (Let’s say I was deeply moved by the bureaucratic content I had just been asked to digest.) I passed a fellow at the sink who was washing …
BREAKING: Columbus Police locate missing child who was in stolen vehicle
Posted: Jul 20, 2019 / 05:52 AM EDT / Updated: Jul 20, 2019 / 08:00 AM EDT COLUMBUS, Ga. (WRBL) – The Columbus Police Department says a child has been located after she went missing Friday night after the vehicle she was in was stolen. Saturday morning, the missing child and vehicle were located off …
Education needed for transformative technology, but rural areas lack digital access – News – The Columbus Dispatch
Hopes for a future filled with autonomous vehicles, life-changing apps, robots and artificial intelligence won’t be realized without a human workforce that’s prepared to make them a reality. That’s why Ohio State University plans to integrate technology into its general education curriculum, which will get an overhaul for the first time in more than 30 …