While I was working on a story on microfilming county records, I discovered a cache of confidential documents that had been stored out in the open… for a decade. The county put a plywood wall over the opening. I was also thrown out of the building by a security guard after this story aired.

I went to a County Commissioners meeting, and the agenda item I was sent to report on was very dry and boring (slag purchases for winter road treatment.) So I came back with a nice visual story on a new effort to get rid of the mounds and mounds of boxes of court records I’d … More Day-Of Turn: Storing County Records

It’s not often you have to don full fire gear to shoot a story- but I did for this one. I followed the Youngstown Fire Cadets as they went through training and state testing to become the city’s newest firefighters. For this story, I used two cell phone cameras, GoPros and a JVC. PREVIEW   … More Fire School