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Ohio State Pistol Team Wins a Fifth Consecutive National Championship
The Ohio State pistol team was already a dynasty, but the trophies just don’t stop rolling in for the program year-over-year.
Less than two months removed from a title win in the first 12-team College Football Playoff, a Buckeye athletics squad has captured another national championship thanks to the OSU pistol team securing the highest honor in its sport for a fifth straight year.
The title also marks the sixth for Ohio State since 2018, which was the second season under current head coach Emil Milev. Two years before arriving in Columbus, Milev became just the second U.S. Olympic shooter at the time to qualify for six different Olympic events. He also won the silver medal in the rapid fire pistol competition on behalf of Bulgaria at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta.
Now, Milev has successfully overseen six national titles at Ohio State within just eight years of each other. The program has also captured 10 total titles in the sport since 2000.
The Buckeyes have not only won several of these team titles outright, but continue to do so in dominant fashion. Ohio State finished with an aggregate score of 4476 this year, which was over 125 points higher than second-place Navy. Last year, OSU beat the Midshipmen by a whopping 296 points to win the championship, while the margin between Navy and fifth-place Citadel ended at merely 233 points.
Ohio State saw six of its student-athletes finish with top 10 individual aggregate scores, including four in the top five and each of the top two. Marcus Klemp posted the highest individual aggregate score with a total of 1140 points, while teammate Blaine Simpson trailed him by only 19 points on aggregate but won the sports pistol competition outright with the highest tally of 569 points — one more than Klemp.
Abbie Leverett, Riya Salian, Jonathan Doresten and Evan Langerak rounded out the performances for the Buckeyes that finished among the top 10 for the national championship. Klemp also finished second overall in the individual air pistol competition.
As winter and spring sports prepare to head into respective postseasons in the coming months, the other teams representing Ohio State athletics will look to follow the standard set by the football and pistol programs early in the 2025 year.
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WSYX) — As concerns have grown over the impact of social media on young people, lawmakers are pushing to keep protections in tact to keep children safe online.
This week the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Ohio’s law, the Social Media Parental Notification Act, requiring parental consent for children under the age of 16 to use social media must be restored. Gov. Mike DeWine signed the act into law in July 2023.
Netchoice, the trade group that represents Tik Tok, Snapchat, Meta and other tech companies contested Ohio’s law in 2024, arguing that it was overly broad, vague and represented an unconstitutional impediment to free speech.
“An unconstitutional law protects no one, and we remain focused on ensuring the First Amendment rights of Ohioans are protected,” Paul Taske, NetChoice Litigation Center Director said.
Cincinnati-based Sixth Circuit’s panel does not agree with this view point, determined that the law is not unconstitutional and had the block on the law’s enforcement vacated.
“At bottom, the Act imposes a parental consent requirement,” Judge Eric Clay wrote. “That requirement constitutes a marginal burden that precisely targets the multi-faceted problem that Ohio has identified: Children’s unsupervised assent to terms and conditions for use of platforms that take advantage of and harm them.”
The Social Media Parental Notification Act is a way to protect children’s mental health against the “intentionally addictive” nature of social media, according to U.S. senator Jon Husted.
The law requires companies to get parental permission for social media and gaming apps and to provide their privacy guidelines so families know what content would be censored or moderated on their child’s profile.
Ohio Attorney General Andy Wilson says the ruling is “a win for Ohio families.”
“The court agreed that parents –- not social media companies –- should get a say in what kids see online,” he said in a statement. “We have an obligation to keep our children safe, and today, the most dangerous place for our kids is the internet. This decision gives parents the tools to be involved and provide oversight.”
LICKING COUNTY, Ohio (WCMH) — When you think of wild animals in central Ohio, a black bear likely isn’t the first thing that comes to mind. That’s why one Licking County family said they couldn’t believe their eyes.
It was an average afternoon drive home for father and son, Justin and Aaron Rhodes, when something walked into the road in front of them.
“I didn’t even think it was real at first, so that’s why I had to do the double take,” Justin said.
Aaron said he thought it was “just a weird looking dog”.
To their disbelief, it was a bear. The sighting comes just one year after the animal was spotted in Licking County for the first time in more than two decades.
“It’s kind of hard to believe that they’re even around this area,” Justin said. “I’ve lived in this area for about 24 years now, so it’s been quite a while, and I’ve never seen one before.”
These sightings are becoming more common. The Ohio Division of Wildlife said the black bear population is growing in the state, and they expect those trends to continue. Ohio saw a record number of confirmed sightings in 2025.
Lindsey Krusling, a wildlife communications specialist with the Ohio Division of Wildlife, said they are seeing more breeding females establish homes in the state, signaling the species is returning. Experts said the work restoring natural forest land is a big reason why.
“We’re starting to get some black bears coming in from neighboring states like Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Kentucky,” Krusling said. “They’re naturally crossing those state borders and coming back to Ohio because we have more of that habitat available to them, especially those forested areas.”
As the black bear population grows, the Division of Wildlife is expanding its research. They are putting radio collars on some bears they find in the state to help track data, such as if the bears are staying here, how far they’ve traveled and if they’re successfully having cubs.
“We’re trying to get quite a bit of data from these bears, and we’re super excited to see where this takes us,” Krusling said.
The research is in the beginning stages, but they expect population growth to continue, Krusling said.
Sighting reports can be submitted here to help the Division of Wildlife track black bear populations throughout the state.
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