Ngozi Cole
Business & Economics ReporterNgozi Cole is the Business and Economics Reporter for WYSO. She graduated with honors from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism in New York and is a 2022 Pulitzer Center Post-Graduate Reporting Fellow. Ngozi is from Freetown, Sierra Leone.
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Premier Health, one of the region’s biggest hospital networks, is changing the trauma status level at Miami Valley Hospital South in Centerville. -
Dayton police officers arrested a man, accusing him of handing out food to unhoused people without a permit. This happened on April 7 at Courthouse Square. -
Kettering Health's Soin Medical Center — of the region’s biggest hospitals — is dropping its trauma center status. The Beavercreek hospital still operates its ER as usual. -
Ohio has high maternal and infant mortality rates. A new Dayton-area project aims to build the case for saving lives by providing housing assistance. -
Montgomery County has awarded The Entrepreneurs Center in Dayton $150,000 to support small tech businesses. -
Dollar Tree, which owns the Family Dollar stores, will lay off 265 employees in Ohio, according to state records. -
While lower than 2023's record high, homelessness is still a persistent issue in Montgomery County. Leaders hope new money for affordable housing and other assistance will help. -
OhioHealth Mothers' Milk Bank has opened the state's second breast milk dispensary at Kettering Health Washington Township. -
People in Ohio can now access more information about certain illnesses.The Ohio Department of Health announced a new addition to its website, the DataOhio Portal, which tracks infectious diseases. -
The city of Dayton will use COVID-relief funding to build five new homes in the Wolf Creek neighborhood.
