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Ohio drivers are seeing fewer injuries at roundabout intersections
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Roundabouts are proving to be a safer alternative to traditional intersections, according to an analysis by the Ohio Department of Transportation.
The study, which examined 76 intersections that were converted to roundabouts, found that single-lane roundabouts decreased injury crashes by 69% while multi-lane roundabouts saw a 25% decline, according to a community announcement.
“Safety is the driving force behind every decision we make, and the results are clear, roundabouts are very effective at reducing crashes and saving lives,” ODOT Director Pamela Boratyn said in the announcement. “Our goal is to continue to support our local, county and state partners by providing funding for roundabouts.”
Roundabouts part of larger safety initiative
In July, Gov. Mike DeWine announced an additional $137 million for 55 traffic safety projects across the state, with 25 of those projects including the installation of roundabouts.
One of the most notable success stories comes from Clark County, where the intersection of Ohio 41 and Ohio 235 had a long history of serious crashes. Despite several countermeasures, including rumble strips, multiple stop signs and flashing beacons, deadly and serious injury crashes continued to occur.
In 2014, a roundabout was installed. In the 11 years since, there has not been a single fatal crash. The lone serious injury crash occurred in 2023 and involved a motorcycle with the rider impaired by drugs and without a helmet or motorcycle endorsement on their license.
Marion and Richland counties see improvements
In Marion County, the intersection of Ohio 98 and Ohio 529 had 37 crashes in the four years before the roundabout’s construction, with nearly 60% resulting in injury. Since the roundabout opened in 2022, there have been 16 crashes with none resulting in injuries.
Richland County has also seen improvements at the intersection of East Cook Road/Illinois Avenue and Mansfield-Lucas Road. From 2015-18, the two-way stop-controlled intersection saw 21 total crashes, with 15 resulting in injury. The roundabout was opened in August 2022, and in the two years since, crashes have decreased by 40% with an average of three per year and zero injury crashes.
This story was created by Jane Imbody, jimbody@gannett.com, with the assistance of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Journalists were involved in every step of the information gathering, review, editing and publishing process. Learn more at cm.usatoday.com/ethical-conduct/.
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Buckeye Nation is known to travel, so it was no surprise that on Saturday in Champaign, “O-H” and “I-O” were heard almost as much as “I-L-L” and “I-N-I.” The national champions were in town for the first time since Nov. 14, 2015. FOX Sports’ “Big Noon Kickoff” was in town for the second time in three weeks.
That meant Brutus Buckeye and Bret Bielema were up early, preparing for a matchup between 5-0 Ohio State, looking to become the first Big Ten team to win back-to-back national titles since before World War II, and 5-1 Illinois, looking to burnish its College Football Playoff chances.
In the end, the Buckeyes won their 10th straight game over the Fighting Illini, though Illinois did become the first team this season to score double-digit points against OSU’s vaunted defense. Julian Sayin and Jeremiah Smith led the way to a 34-16 Buckeyes victory.
But that was just part of the story. On and off the field, the cast of characters made it a day to remember. Let’s take a look back in photos.
Saturday morning starts early at the Champaign Holiday Inn for Ohio State alum Jay McKay and his wife, Chris, who attend every Buckeyes game, home and away. Sitting at the other end of the counter, Illini fans Phil Butler and Tammie McCormick are hoping for “close, competitive game” against the nation’s No. 1 team.
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As the sun rises less than a mile away, the scarlet and gray flags are already flying in the Memorial Stadium parking lots. Tailgating knows no time limits.
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Pair a little girl with a Big Wheel and dad is just trying to keep up. Their Fighting Illini will know the feeling a little later.
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As Illinois head coach Bret Bielemi gets off the team bus, his daughters Briella and Brexli are waiting with hugs for dad.
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The Buckeyes get their first standing ovation of the day as they arrive at Memorial Stadium.
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In the crowd to cheer the team’s arrival is Jeff Griffith, who retired in August as an IT manager for Kroger just in time to follow the Buckeyes throughout the 2025 season.
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One of the first off the bus is former Detroit Lions coach Matt Patricia, whose Buckeyes defense is being called one of the best in Big Ten history. Ohio State entered Saturday allowing just 5 points per game and having held two straight opponents without a touchdown.
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In his pregame walk-and-talk with FOX Sports game analyst Joel Klatt, Buckeyes head coach Ryan Day explains that confidence is the key for OSU’s defense as well as first-year quarterback Julian Sayin. “His confidence is building every day,” Day says. “I think he has a better command of the offense, and the guys around him believe in him.”
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As a two-touchdown underdog, the Illini need some juice. So they bring in former quarterback Juice Williams, who in 2007 threw four touchdown passes to lead Illinois to an epic 28–21 upset over No. 1 Ohio State. Williams joins the “Big Noon Kickoff” crew to crank the air raid siren, which has become an Illini tradition.
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All geared up for game time, Buckeyes superfan Jon Peters, better known as the “Big Nut,” greets fellow OSU faithful while waiting for the gates to open.
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Buckeyes long snapper John Ferlmann prepares to take the field at Memorial Stadium, where his grandfather, Miles Stout, once played for Illinois. In 1956, when Stout was the starting QB, Illinois lost to No. 5 Ohio State 26-6 on this same field. On the opening kickoff, Illini linebacker Ray Nitschke lost his four front teeth when he took an Ohio State helmet to the mouth. Such is the origin of Nitschke’s legendary toothless grin.
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FOX Sports college football analyst RJ Young calls Julian Sayin “the quarterback Arch Manning was expected to be.” Sayin’s Heisman odds jump after he completes 19-of-27 passes for 166 yards and two touchdowns against Illinois.
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OSU star Jeremiah Smith is held to a season-low 42 yards receiving, but he does score a touchdown for the fifth straight game.
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On the OSU sideline, Brutus wants to make sure he captures all the action, so he takes matters into his own hands. He just might have an eye for this.
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No matter where they are or who they’re playing, Buckeye Nation’s messaging remains remarkably consistent.
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Running back Bo Jackson finds the end zone on a 17-yard pass from Julian Sayin late in the first half, extending OSU’s lead to 20-0.
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While leaving the field at halftime, Bret Bielema stops to chat with the officials. The Illinois coach is not happy with the lack of pass interference calls against OSU defensive backs, whom he would describe as “pretty handsy” after the game.
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Here’s photographic evidence that Ohio State does occasionally give up a touchdown. Illinois running back Aidan Laughery caps a 12-play, 75-yard drive to open the second half with a one-yard TD run, cutting OSU’s lead to 20-10. It’s the first rushing touchdown surrendered by the Ohio State defense all season.
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It’s Ryan Day’s turn to beef with the refs. He’s either objecting to Illinois slow-playing its substitutions or maybe he’s just not happy that his defense allowed a touchdown.
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The Illini would commit three costly turnovers, including QB Luke Altmyer’s first interception of the season and this fumble late in the third quarter on a strip sack by cornerback Jermaine Mathews Jr. All three Illinois turnovers would lead to Ohio State touchdowns.
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With the Big Nut looking on from the front row of a packed Ohio State section, the biggest Buckeye nut mugs for the FOX camera. The camera loves Brutus; Brutus loves the camera.
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Jeremiah Smith talks with FOX’s Jenny Taft postgame while holding the Illibuck trophy, a wooden turtle whose shell is engraved with the scores of Illinois-Ohio State games. The turtle tradition dates back more than a century.
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Before getting on the team bus, OSU long snapper John Ferlmann (center) visits with family, including his parents, Sally and Steve. Three generations turned out to watch John play on the same field as his late grandfather. “Leading up to the game, I forced myself to focus on the task at hand,” he said. “Afterwards, I realized just how thrilling it was to be there. I got to share this moment with my family and reminisce about what an impact my grandfather had upon me and our family. I did my best to honor him by playing the best that I could. I hope I made him proud.”
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Illinois coach Bret Bielema was noticeably frustrated after the Illini’s 34-16 home loss to No. 1 Ohio State on Saturday, and he had good reason to be. Three turnovers, a handful of missed tackles and a series of other preventable mistakes made it clear the Illini haven’t yet made the strides Bielema had hoped.
But there were silver linings to be had, and maybe the most intriguing among them was Illinois’ offensive output when coordinator Barry Lunney Jr. gave the green light for quarterback Luke Altmyer to go into hurry-up mode. The Illini went no-huddle from their opening possession, but they didn’t initially push the pace. Altmyer began the game 4-for-12 for 29 yards and an interception.
As soon as they needed to go, however, they did, in fact, go. Down 20-0 and taking over on their own 25 with the clock showing under four minutes in the first half, Lunney, Altmyer and the Illini popped the clutch and dropped the pedal. If you remove an overturned touchdown pass to Justin Bowick and another incompletion to Bowick (on which he was mugged but no call was made), Altmyer fired seven straight completions for 58 yards to drive Illinois into scoring position for a David Olano field goal and the Illini’s only points of the half.
If Bielema had any regrets about the decision to turn to a quicker pace, it was only that the Illini didn’t go to it sooner.
“I knew I actually wanted to go tempo the whole freaking game, because they couldn’t do shit with it, right?” a rankled Bielema said in his postgame press conference. “Like, we were doing a lot of really good things back there. I think we could have done that a little bit sooner, a little bit quicker. Our quarterback’s really good with it.”
It didn’t hurt, of course, that Illinois was down 20 at this point and Buckeyes defensive coordinator Matt Patricia had already shifted into a more conservative defensive posture. Still, the Illini strategy kept OSU from substituting to preferred personnel and helped wear down a unit bursting with future NFL Draft picks.
“They’ve got good players all over the place,” Bielema said. “Matt’s obviously a very talented coordinator. They got really good personnel. But it seemed like when we were in tempo, that things really began to work our way. We just needed to go to it probably a little sooner, a little more often.”
Over the second half of Illinois’ season, chances are we’ll see Bielema and Lunney turn to tempo more often in tight spots, or when Altmyer appears to need a jolt. At the very least, Altmyer operating a two-minute offense over four quarters sure sounds like a brilliant bit of strategy.
Ohio breweries set a state record at the 2025 Great American Beer Festival with a combined 21 medals and two breweries taking home “Brewery of the Year” awards in their divisions.
Eleven Ohio breweries won medals at the event, held each year at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver. The awards were announced Oct. 11. This year’s competition featured more than 1,500 breweries from across the country and 8,315 beer and cider entries.
“This is a banner day for Ohio craft beer,” Mary MacDonald, executive director of the Ohio Craft Brewers Association, said in a prepared statement. “Our breweries deserve so much recognition for the high-quality, world-class and award-winning beers they brew, as well as their innovation beyond beer and the ways they positively contribute to their local communities.”
The previous record for Ohio was 12 breweries winning 19 medals in 2023. Since 1987, 65 Ohio craft breweries have combined to win 230 medals, including 81 gold, at the event.
“Year after year, the Great American Beer Festival sets the bar for American brewing (and for the second year in a row, cidermaking). The 2025 competition was no exception,” Chris Williams, competition director for the Brewers Association, said in a prepared statement. “There were extremely strong showings from numerous breweries and cidermakers across the U.S., maximizing the level of competition among the entire competition community.”
Fat Head’s Brewery wins 2025 Brewery of the Year award at Great American Beer Festival
Fat Head’s Brewery won “Brewery of the Year” in the 15,001- to 100,000-barrel division. Fat Head’s — which has brewing locations in Middleburg Heights, North Olmsted and Plain Township — won five medals.
Goggle Fogger and Battle Axe earned gold medals in the South German-style hefeweizen and strong porter categories, respectively. It was the third gold medal for Goggle Fogger in the past six years.
Meanwhile, Bone Head (strong red ale) won silver; and Excursion Journeyman (specialty non-alcohol beer) and Hop JuJu (imperial India pale ale) won bronze medals.
“In a field packed with world-class breweries and unforgettable beers, we’re humbled to stand among them,” the brewery said in a Facebook post. “Huge shout-out to all the other winners, especially our fellow #OhioCraftBeer friends!”
The brewery has now won 35 medals at the competition since 2009, the association noted.
Third Eye Brewing wins Brewery of the Year award at 2025 Great American Beer Festival
Third Eye Brewing in Cincinnati also took home a “Brewery of the Year” award in the 2,001- to 5000-barrel division.
Third Eye won two gold medals and a silver, as well as two collaboration beer medals: a gold with Municipal Brew Works in Hamilton and a bronze with Narrow Path Brewing in Loveland.
Higher Consciousness and Gourd Darn It! won gold medals in the scotch ale and pumpkin beer categories, respectively. Wired Euphoria (coffee stout or porter) won silver.
“We are so incredibly proud of this team for their dedication and hard work to continuously to create high quality award-winning beers,” Third Eye Brewing posted on Facebook.
Which Ohio beers won medals at the 2025 Great American Beer Festival?
Eleven Ohio breweries combined to win 21 medals at the Great American Beer Festival. Here are the winners, categories and medals:
Fat Head’s Brewery
- Battle Axe: strong porter, gold
- Goggle Fogger: South German-style hefeweizen, gold
- Bone Head: strong red ale, silver
- Excursion Journeyman: specialty non-alcohol beer, bronze
- Hop JuJu: imperial India pale ale, bronze
Third Eye Brewing
- Gourd Darn It!: pumpkin beer, gold
- Higher Consciousness: scotch ale, gold
- Route 4 Revive-ALE: collaboration beer (with Municipal Brew Works), gold
- Wired Euphoria: coffee stout or porter, silver
- Mounds of Importance: collaboration beer (with Narrow Path Brewing), bronze
Brewing Brewing (Cincinnati)
- Lil Zoomie: coffee stout or porter, gold
- Moozie: sweet stout or cream stout, gold
Gemut Biergarten (Columbus)
- Helheim Helles: Munich-style helles, silver
- Woden’s Hunt: Munich-style dunkel, bronze
Rhinegeist Brewery (Cincinnati)
- Ring of Kerry: Munich-style helles, silver
- Ghost Pils: classic non-alcohol ale or lager, bronze
Forbidden Root (Columbus)
- Festhalle: Munich-style helles, gold
Streetside Brewery (Cincinnati)
- Sofa King: strong red ale, gold
Inside the Five Brewing (Toledo)
- Prepare for Glory: English Ale, silver
Narrow Path Brewing (Loveland)
- Polar Bear: coffee beer, silver
JAFB Wooster Brewery (Wooster)
Hefeweizen: South German-style hefeweizen, bronze
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