Kaitlin Thorne
Ohio Valley ReSource ReporterKaitlin Thorne is the Criminal & Social Justice reporter for the Ohio Valley ReSource based at partner station WOUB in Athens, OH. She has a background in print media, having served as the editor of The Athens Messenger in Athens and The Gladwin County Record & Clarion in Gladwin, MI.
Prior to being editor she worked as a reporter for the Record & Clarion. She holds a photojournalism degree from Central Michigan University. While she worked in print media she frequently covered the criminal justice system and won an Ohio Associated Press Media Editors award for her coverage of the Black Lives Matter movement. In her spare time, Kaitlin enjoys cooking, creative writing, photography and hiking with her husband and their dog.
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Mysterious creatures are lurking deep in the heart of the Ohio Valley. At least, so say generations of people who have passed down folktales of the unknown. -
Charter schools have had a strong presence in Ohio, since being legalized in the 1990s. Currently there are over 300 active in the state.
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Aside from the view of the razor wire fence and the guard stationed in the nursery, there are few indications that it is a prison. The nursery consists of individual rooms, a kitchen where the mothers can prepare meals for the babies, a laundry room, a living room and a classroom.
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It wasn’t long ago that Tonya Jones felt she couldn’t be out and proud in her eastern Kentucky hometown of Pikeville. She used to drive three hours to Lexington for any semblance of an LGBTQ-friendly community.
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It was already difficult to get an abortion in Kentucky, Ohio and West Virginia, but it’s about to become almost impossible after the U.S. Supreme Court left it up to states to decide reproductive rights.
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The permitless carry law comes on the heels of the two deadliest years for gun violence in Ohio. According to the Ohio Department of Health, there were 1,762 gun-related deaths in 2021 and 1,764 deaths in 2020.
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For many people in rural parts of the Ohio Valley, wading through a sea of anti-abortion protesters is a jarring experience that can only take place after hours of driving, sometimes across state lines.
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A child care desert is any census tract that contains more than 50 children under age five where no child care providers are available, or where there are more than three-times as many children as licensed child care slots.
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The VR training is meant in part to help bring more sensitivity training to currently working law enforcement. It is the latest effort to work on de-escalation of situations involving law enforcement officers and the community.
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Substance-use disorder is a crippling epidemic for many communities in the region. The National Association of Counties reported that in 2017, the opioid overdose death rate was 72% higher in Appalachian counties than in non-Appalachian counties.
