Central Ohio high school football enters Week 7 with several compelling storylines and matchups that will shape the remainder of the season.The Columbus Dispatch and Cleveland.com are highlighting the top games and key narratives to follow across the region.Teams are battling for playoff positioning as the season reaches its critical midpoint.The week promises competitive football with implications for conference standings and postseason seeding.AI-generated briefing — triage, not the story; every claim links out to the coverage below.WatchPowered by TPD VideoIn this storyTopicColumbus, OhioTopicHigh School FootballTopicHigh SchoolThe ConversationAdditional Coverage2 sources▶ VideoBeyond the Scoreboard is back with another Game of …Instagram5d ago↗▶…
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Hugh Hefner’s widow is pushing back against a fictionalized version of the Playboy world. Crystal Hefner has found herself at the center of a new conversation after Jessica Biel’s upcoming movie “Playmates” sparked questions about how Hefner and the women around him will be portrayed. The project has drawn attention for its fictional take on Playboy’s history, putting Crystal in an unusual position as someone who lived inside that world. Crystal Hefner married Hugh Hefner in 2012 and married him until his death in 2017, becoming his final wife after years of living at the Playboy Mansion. She later opened…
A COMMON EU APPROACH?Norway is not alone in taking action. The European Data Protection Board, an independent body representing privacy regulators across Europe, has commissioned a report on the social acceptability of smart glasses to guide lawmakers. Australia’s government has asked for advice on whether to ban them from its offices and service centres after a number of the country’s local councils prohibited them from swimming pools, offices and more. And Dutch retailer Hans Anders this month became one of the first in the world to stop the sale of Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses over privacy concerns.Norway, for now though, has…
The Russian and Iranian presidents met in Turkmenistan ahead of regional summit.Published On 8 Oct 20268 Oct 2026Russian President Vladimir Putin has told Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian that Russia will “do everything” to help end the United States-led war on Iran, Russian news agencies reported.The two leaders met in Turkmenistan on Thursday ahead of the summit of the Commonwealth of Independent States, a group of former Soviet nations.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of list“You know our position. On our part, we are ready to do everything we can to help you resolve this situation,” Interfax news agency said Putin…
The Cleveland Guardians staved off elimination at the hands of the Chicago White Sox in Game 3 of the ALDS, and heading into Game 4 with Parker Messick taking the mound, they have a pulse once again. Coming off of a 9-3 victory to get their first win of the 2026 Playoffs in which they struck out 19 Chicago batters, Cleveland is trotting out rookie Parker Messick for Game 4. Messick made 32 starts in the 2026 regular season, posting a 2.56 ERA with 193 Ks in 186 1/3 innings, with four of those starts coming against Chicago. The Plant City, Florida native…
A searing report by InvestigateWest and Spokane’s RANGE media outlet detailed internal clashes delaying and complicating The Spokesman-Review’s donation to a nonprofit.Citing current and former Spokesman employees, the report described a growing tension between the newsroom and Rob Curley, its top editor and architect of plans to transfer Spokane’s historic daily newspaper to a nonprofit he founded.That transfer is still happening but it’s unclear whether Curley will still be involved. Publisher Stacey Cowles, whose family is donating the paper and $2 million to the project, told InvestigateWest that they are now aiming to donate the paper on Oct. 30.A handful…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Mindset varies by channel. The same buyer behaves differently depending on where you reach them. Customer interviews can reveal these mindset differences. Use interviews to improve the message, not just the channel. Interviews reveal how buyers describe their problems and which claims they trust or dismiss, which makes for better messaging. Customer acquisition doesn’t end when somebody visits your website. Interviews should uncover what buyers need to see, learn or believe before taking the next step. Marketers spend a lot of time deciding where to find customers. Should we invest…
It’s been two days since OpenAI’s “slop drop” of AI-generated results on 372 open math and computer science problems. Scientists are just beginning to parse through the heap and pick out the most exciting breakthroughs in their own fields.It will be months, perhaps years, before we understand just how much novel mathematics was added to the literature this week, but everyone agrees it’s been a week without precedent. “Yesterday will be the day when a new era of math and mathematical physics began,” Harvard University mathematician Michael Douglas told Scientific American on Tuesday. It was an even bigger moment, he…
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Thursday the public would be able to watch the firing squad execution of a former Army officer convicted of a mass shooting at Fort Hood, Texas.Speaking from the USS Abraham Lincoln to the conservative news outlet Real America’s Voice, Hegseth said Nidal Hasan is “going to get a firing squad of soldiers, and we’ll make sure that people are able to watch it.”“People need to understand that there’s serious consequences for these types of things,” said Hegseth, who called the method of execution a “no-brainer.”Hegseth said the execution would be carried out at 1 p.m.…
By 2028, genetic engineering and gene therapy will be used frequently to treat a variety of diseases, thanks to advances in artificial intelligence, according to the recently released 2030 Technology Megatrends Report from IEEE.“We are seeing a fundamental shift in how technology evolves,” says IEEE Fellow Dejan Milojicic, chair of the IEEE Future Directions Committee’s Industry Advisory Board, the group responsible for the report. “Artificial intelligence is no longer operating in a vacuum; it is now deeply connected to our energy, infrastructure, and physical systems.” Milojicic, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise Fellow, is a vice president at HPE Labs in Milpitas,…