Paige Pfleger
Reporter, WOSUPaige Pfleger is a reporter for WOSU, Central Ohio's NPR station. Before joining the staff of WOSU, Paige worked in the newsrooms of NPR, Vox, Michigan Radio, WHYY and The Tennessean. She spent three years in Philadelphia covering health, science, and gender, and her work has appeared nationally in The Washington Post, Marketplace, Atlas Obscura and more.
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Holmes Co., Ohio, is a patchwork of farmland. Modest houses perch on sloping hills and laundry hangs from clothes lines, flapping in the wind. There are…
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Monique Williams McCoy greets everyone walking down Cleveland avenue like a neighbor."Hey y’all!" she calls out. "You coming over to check it out today,…
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Bouncing on a purple exercise ball, Alyssa talks to her new teacher about what classes she needs to graduate. "There’s a Psychology 1 as an elective, I…
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"This is the spot," Marilyn Evans says, standing in the empty parking lot of the Women’s Med Center in Kettering, Ohio.The Women's Med Center is the only…
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Nicole Dempsey remembers crying in a pew at church, watching a video of a woman with long dark hair and deep brown eyes. The woman was talking about her…
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Deepa Halaharvi is a morning person."Eat, read, pray, and get ready to go to work," she says, laughing. "And usually I’m out the door around 6:15 or…
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An Ohio doctor being investigated for the suspicious deaths of dozens of hospital patients has been charged with 25 counts of murder.A prosecutor said…
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Experts often blame illicit fentanyl for skyrocketing overdose deaths among illegal drug users. Now a series of deaths at an Ohio hospital is raising…
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“I water my horses out of this creek down here,” Jeff Ivers says, resting his hand on his horse’s nose.He looks out over his land: 43 acres, surrounded on…
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The Columbus, Ohio, area has been hit hard by the opioid epidemic. And local judges say their courtrooms are jammed with misdemeanor cases that are tied…