Kendall Crawford
Reporter, The Ohio NewsroomKendall Crawford most recently worked as a reporter at Iowa Public Radio. There, she was tasked with covering a 20-county region in rural western Iowa and making those stories relevant to the rest of the state. She covered issues spanning a variety of topics, including refugee populations, renewable energy, agriculture and rural schools.
Before then, she helped cover the Tennessee legislature at WPLN in Nashville, and she reported on education for St. Louis Public Radio.
Kendall grew up in northern Kentucky, right across the river from Cincinnati.
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The Urbana Black Heritage Festival will give west-central Ohioans the chance to celebrate the powerful legacy and lasting contributions of past Black residents. -
Dozens of the hospital system’s emergency rooms are upgrading to higher resolution cameras that better document physical abuse. -
Last fall, Newark promised to create a diversion program from those charged with a misdemeanor crime for sleeping outside. Its HOME Court program is now in full swing. -
It’s the 100th anniversary of when the Goodyear Blimp first took flight outside of Akron. -
Alexander Livingston helped commercialize the crop. He’s a part of a long history of Ohio growers perfecting the tomato. -
The Women Religious Archive Collaborative is focusing on documenting the contributions of Catholic sisters across the country. -
More Ohio jails are entering into agreements with ICE to hold people who have been arrested for lacking legal status. -
Companies all across the state are chipping into Ohio’s #2 ranking in making the salty snack. -
The village of Luckey is near a former radioactive weapons plant. New testing suggests the former site could still be having an impact on its water today. -
Many of the state’s small libraries rely on the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services for programming. The Trump administration has effectively shut the federal agency down.
