Saturday, October 3, 2026

Good Morning! On this day in 1920, the first-ever NFL game took place in Dayton, featuring the Dayton Triangles and the Columbus Panhandles.

🎢 Two of Ohio's most beloved amusement parks could someday carry new names, depending on how passholders answer a Six Flags survey. Learn more in today’s Top Stories.

Sick season is here. Plenty of people are coughing and clearing their throats through every conversation, but that stubborn tickle might have nothing to do with the cold going around. Doctors point to a surprising culprit, and your go-to remedy could be making things worse. Amy breaks down that stuck-in-your-throat feeling on today's episode of The Flyover Podcast. Is your trusty allergy pill actually helping? Which popular nasal spray should never be used for more than three days? And what if that lump in your throat isn't really there? Tune in here!

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Guardians, White Sox Open ALDS

The Cleveland Guardians host the Chicago White Sox at 1 p.m. today at Progressive Field in Game 1 of the best-of-five American League Division Series—the AL Central rivals' first postseason meeting.

Cleveland erased a 5 1/2-game deficit to win the AL Central by one game, but Chicago took the season series 7-6, with seven of the 13 meetings decided by a single run.

Left-hander Parker Messick is set to start for Cleveland. In four starts against Chicago, he has posted a 2.81 ERA.

The ALDS winner will face the Tampa Bay Rays or New York Yankees. Potential Guardians ALCS tickets are already on sale starting at $142.

GE Aerospace Invests in Local Workforce

GE Aerospace and its foundation will invest nearly $1 million to train skilled workers for southwest Ohio's booming aviation industry.

About $500,000 comes from Lifting Futures, the foundation's $30 million push to train 10,000 aerospace workers by 2030. Cincinnati and Dayton, home to nearly 19,000 industry jobs, are among five inaugural communities in the program.

Sinclair College will receive about $300,000 to train welders and technicians, with another $130,000 going to the Hobart Institute of Welding Technology in Troy.

Six Flags Floats Park Rebrands

Six Flags is surveying passholders about new names for Cedar Point and Kings Island that would fold the corporate brand into Ohio’s two most famous parks.

One option tested with Cedar Point passholders, "Six Flags of North Ohio," would drop the name the Sandusky park has carried since 1870. Kings Island could become "Six Flags Kings Island."

Longtime fans aren't sold. A Cedar Point fan site operator called the survey "tone deaf," citing Geauga Lake, the Aurora park Six Flags renamed Six Flags Ohio in 2000 before it closed in 2007.

A Six Flags spokesperson said the options are "research concepts, not proposed or final names," and that no decisions have been made.

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➤ Statewide: A Suffolk University poll found 72% of likely Ohio voters oppose tax breaks for new data centers, a view shared across party lines. Only 39% support an outright ban of such facilities. (More)

➤ Vandalia: President Trump is set to rally today at the Butler-Vandalia Student Activity Center for U.S. Sen. Jon Husted, R-Ohio, who is locked in a tight race with former Sen. Sherrod Brown, a Democrat. (See Details)

➤ Cleveland: Cleveland Clinic cut off health benefits Thursday for striking Lutheran Hospital union workers, saying they no longer qualify after missing shifts. (More)

➤ Upper Arlington: Monsignor John Johnson of St. Agatha's Church died Wednesday night, a day after a vehicle struck him at Tremont and Ridgecliff roads. The Diocese of Columbus mourned "the loss of such a remarkable priest." (More)

➤ Lancaster: An explosion tore through Cirba Solutions, a battery recycling plant on Quarry Road, Thursday afternoon, damaging machinery and the roof. No employees were hurt, and an investigation is underway. (Watch Report)

➤ Columbus: Hops on High and HighBall Halloween share the Short North for the first time today, with the events expected to draw thousands of people. (See Details)

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➤ No. 5 Ohio State visits No. 14 Iowa at 3:30 p.m. today, seeking its first true road win over a ranked team since 2024. Jeremiah Smith needs 10 catches and two touchdowns to break school career records. (More)

➤ Cleveland Browns defensive lineman Mason Graham is week-to-week with MCL and ankle sprains from Thursday's win over the Pittsburgh Steelers. He isn’t expected to need surgery. (More)

➤ San Francisco 49ers owner Jed York, a Youngstown native, was suspended six games and fined $500,000 by the NFL after his August arrest in an East Palestine prostitution sting. (More)

➤ Ohio University inked a five-year deal making Nike and BSN Sports the official outfitter of all 16 Bobcats athletic programs starting in July 2027. (More)

➤ Yesterday’s Results: NCAAF | NHL | WNBA | Soccer | Golf

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➤ Jeni's is now scooping a limited-edition Appalachian Acorn Pie ice cream made with flour from foraged Ohio oak acorns, milled by an Amish farm. The flavor was five years in the making. (More)

➤ Veterans visiting The Wall That Heals in Belmont County are receiving challenge coins shaped like Zippo lighters, a design tied to a real Zippo found in Vietnam. (More)

➤ Ohioans are snapping up Dolly Parton's Imagination Library license plates, with sales doubling to 1,113 since the singer's death. Each plate sends $25 to support early childhood literacy. (More)

➤ Support has been pouring in for Grant Bross, a 13-year-old Springboro quarterback fighting a brain tumor, with messages ranging from Ohio State coach Ryan Day to current and former Cincinnati Bengals. (Watch Videos)

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➤ Sick season is here, and doctors say relief for that stubborn throat starts with one surprising fix. (Listen Now)

➤ Nobel watchers say the International Space Station is a serious Peace Prize contender this year, alongside far more contentious earthbound names. (Hear Names)

➤ Pope Leo XIV is urging artists to join the church in a fight to protect human creativity from artificial intelligence. (Podcast Available)