There is plenty at stake Friday night in a GCL South showdown at Nippert Stadium.

That's when Moeller (6-0) plays host to Elder (5-1) in one of the most anticipated high school football games this season.

Moeller can win the GCL South outright with a win. Elder can clinch at least a share of the league title with a victory as the Panthers still have to play La Salle Oct. 21.

"I think that the atmosphere is going to be pretty neat," Moeller coach Mark Elder said. "I'm excited for that for our kids."

Coach Elder and Elder High School coach Doug Ramsey join the WCPO High School Insider to discuss this game.

You will also hear from Winton Woods senior running back Trey Cornist, who reflects upon the reaction he received after he rushed for 343 yards and six touchdowns last week.

Covington Catholic coach Eddie Eviston explains the key to the Colonels' five-game win streak after a district win at Cooper last week.

Edgewood coach Scott Clemmons discusses the Cougars' five-game win streak.

And Cincinnati Country Day coach Dennis Coyle explains a why a loss to rival Summit Country Day in late August became a turning point for the Nighthawks this season.

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Believe it or not, the high school girls basketball season is just a matter of weeks away.

The WCPO High School Insider podcast previews this upcoming season and what is expected from the top teams and players around Greater Cincinnati.

Official Ohio High School Athletic Association coaching is scheduled to begin Oct. 21.

She Hoops Ohio's Bryce McKey and Drew Fladung, a West Clermont High School assistant coach, joined this episode to discuss several topics related to girls basketball.

The conversation includes 2021-22 state champion Purcell Marian and sophomore star Dee Alexander as the team moves to Division II.

You will also find out why Princeton may be the top Division I team in in the state led by senior point guard Solè Williams.

Plus, you'll find out some of the other top players, coaches and teams to to watch for in the Southwest District as the season officially begins Nov. 18.

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A Greater Miami Conference showdown highlights Week 8 of the high school football season Friday night.

Fairfield (6-1, 5-1 GMC) plays host to Lakota West (7-0, 6-0 GMC) in a game that will go a long way in helping determine the conference champion this month.

Fairfield coach Jason Krause joins the WCPO High School Insider podcast to discuss the matchup and the season overall.

Western Brown coach Nick Osborne discusses senior quarterback Drew Novak as the 2021 Mr. Football finalist became third in state history in career passing yards last week.

And Moeller coach Mark Elder discusses what the outright Greater Catholic League South division title means for the Crusaders after a 42-14 win over Elder at Nippert Stadium.

Plus, you'll hear about some of this week's top games throughout Greater Cincinnati as the postseason draws near.

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This Thanksgiving week represents a significant start to the Week 15 high school football schedule.

Indiana plays host to it state finals at Lucas Oil Stadium with East Central (Class 4A) and Lawrenceburg (Class 3A) this weekend.

Ohio and Kentucky are in the state semifinals starting Friday night.

Newport Central Catholic (Class 1A), Lloyd and Beechwood (Class 2A) are the Northern Kentucky representatives in the Kentucky High School Athletic Association state Final Four.

Moeller (Division I) and Kings (Division II) play respective state semifinals Friday night while Wyoming (Division IV) plays Saturday night.

The WCPO High School Insider delves into the Ohio High School Athletic Association state Final Four with interviews with Moeller coach Mark Elder, Kings coach Alex Garvin and Wyoming coach Aaron Hancock.

The coaches also reflect on what they're thankful for as the teams practice on Thursday and prepare to travel to the state semifinal games in Divisions I-III.

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OMAHA, Neb. —

A study from the spring found three in 10 health care workers had considered leaving their jobs because of the pandemic. A doctor in Omaha, Nebraska, says there is no easy cure for burnout, but wants fellow physicians to know she hears them, and their feelings are valid.

"It's a kind of tired that you don't get better from by the time you go back to work next," said Dr. Deanna Larson.

For doctors and nurses going full speed ahead, Larson says it is time to slow down and self-reflect.

"You have to take care of your mental health. You just have to," Larson said.

Larson told sister station KETV her physician's flame started to flicker years ago. But she said the pandemic has exacerbated burnout across the medical industry.

"You see these people that are really sick and things that we can't always do to help them," said Tera Kapke, a registered nurse in Fairbury, Nebraska.

A Physicians Foundation report from June of this year found 61% of physicians feel burnt out. The International Council of Nurses reports a 70% burnout rate — up 30% from pre-pandemic numbers.

"I'd work a few shifts in a row and pick up extra shifts and I'm just exhausted," Larson said.

Larson coaches doctors battling burnout. She started a podcast to make self-help more accessible.

"We normalize our stress because that's just our job," Larson said. "We're givers, that's what we do. We're givers at the expense of ourselves."

Added to a doctor's job description these days is healing a world plagued by misinformation. Doctors and nurses have become the target of online hate and harassment.

"You really just can't have empathy for anybody anymore,” Larson said. “You are literally just trying to survive, get to the next day."

Larson offered a reminder to check up on the health care workers in your life, and encourages doctors to listen for symptoms of stress in themselves.

"We need to take care of ourselves, or there's not going to be anybody else to take care of us," said Larson, whose podcast “Beat Physician Burnout” is available to stream now.

PHOENIX, Ariz. — (KNXV) Neva Lee Recla may only be 12 years old, but she's already accomplished a lot in her short lifetime —- and there are no signs that she's slowing down anytime soon. She's working hard to make her goals and dreams a reality, and inspire a few others along the way.

At 7, she wrote and published her first book, "When Pigs Fly: The Parent's Guide to Inspire Your Young Entrepreneur," and launched her own podcast, "Super Power Kids," where she produced 100 episodes and totaled two million downloads.

Her podcast featured famous entrepreneurs, such as Cathy Lee Crosby, the original Wonder Woman from the 1974 TV film, and the founder of CEOSpace, Berny Dohrmann.

"I think a kid doing business is a bit unheard of," Neva said.

For her podcast, she said: "I liked incorporating what they did and I tried making it fun in like the kid world."

Neva has been an entrepreneurial go-getter her entire life, according to her mom, Tonya Dawn Recla.

She said. Neva asked to have her own business cards when she was two and even showed signs of networking while hanging out on the playground with other kids.

"She’d bring kids over, put out (her) hand, say 'Hello nice to meet you,' and what we saw happening was just developing that confidence," her mom said.

Inspiring her child and letting Neva lead the way on her own adventures is what Tonya said she focused on.

"Get to know your child, not through anyone else’s lens, not through what you think they should do, not through who you want them to be, not through what you wish you had done, just listen, and let them guide (the way)," she said.

Last year, Neva enrolled at ASU Digital Prep, an online K-12 school, where she is working on her second podcast, "Leave it to Neva," where she plans to share her passions, journey, and business advice with others.

"Not just inspire kids to do business but to show everybody that they’re loved and accepted for who they are and showing everybody that they don’t have to go on this path alone," Neva said. "I would say take what you love and turn it into a way to help people and know that it doesn’t have to be picture perfect."

This story was originally reported by Adam Waltz on ABC15.com.

Protests against police brutality have emerged in cities across America following the death of George Floyd, including in Cincinnati.

Hear Cincinnati podcast host Brian Niesz is joined by WCPO reporters Kristen Swilley and Josh Bazan to talk about covering the protests and their effects on the city. "'You could hear people breaking glass, but you weren't exactly sure where it was coming from," Swilley recalled.

WCPO reporters Larry Seward and Paola Suro join to discuss why arrestees were held outside overnight and address reports that arrestees were deprived of food and water while detained.

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This week on the Hear Cincinnati podcast, host Brian Niesz is joined by community reporter Lucy May and senior manager of enterprise/investigative Meghan Goth to discuss the Cincinnati Juneteenth Festival going virtual for 2020, a petition for University of Cincinnati to remove Marge Schott's name from a stadium, the 'Black Lives Matter' mural downtown and more.

Later, at 23:20, Brian is joined by WCPO reporter Monique John to explain what Lincoln Heights' history of economic exclusion and police corruption reveals about what she described as America's "watershed moment in reckoning with police violence."

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Many speakers at Monday's Budget and Finance committee meeting said they want city policy to match the message of the Black Lives Matter mural painted on the streets outside.

This week on the Hear Cincinnati podcast, I am joined by community reporter Lucy May and senior manager of broadcast Kennan Oliphant to discuss the use of doulas to reduce pregnancy risks, King's Island reopening with restrictions, Kroger's new Covid tests and more.

Later, at 26:00 mark, WCPO reporter Keenan Singleton joins the podcast to discuss what Black coaches at Xavier University are doing to become leaders and teachers in fight against systemic racism.

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This week on the Hear Cincinnati podcast, host Brian Niesz is joined by community reporter Lucy May and senior manager of enterprise/investigative Meghan Goth to discuss a possible wave of evictions in Hamilton County, trouble with Interstate 75, a local bar closed by police due to "drug sales," and more.

Later, near the 23-minute mark, Brian is joined by Evan Millward to discuss the arrest of Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder and four associates in a $60 million federal bribery case connected to a taxpayer-funded bailout of Ohio’s two nuclear power plants.

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This week on the Hear Cincinnati podcast, host Brian Niesz is joined by senior manager of broadcast Kennan Oliphant and senior manager of enterprise/investigative Meghan Goth to discuss tech for at-home learning, quarantine gambling addiction, roundabouts and more.

Later, near the 31-minute mark, Brian is joined by WCPO reporter Josh Bazan to discuss Cincinnati Public Schools' plan for five weeks of distance learning and concerns from local parents and teachers.

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This week on the Hear Cincinnati podcast, host Brian Niesz is joined by community reporter Lucy May and senior manager of enterprise/investigative Meghan Goth to discuss a community car care clinic, stimulus cards that look like spam, new Bengals uniforms and more.

Next, Brian is joined by WCPO reporter Mariel Carbone to discuss the $77 million mixed-use development at Liberty and Elm streets that was put on pause by City Council after criticism from the Over-the-Rhine Community Council that it would lack any affordable units.

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Students in some places are going back in masks but in other places, it is an optional thing. So many things have changed in what feels like the 11th hour, thanks in large part to this delta variant. WCPO anchor/reporter Evan Milward is joined by superintendents Matt Early from Williamsburg, Jonathan Cooper from Mason, and Mike Borchers from Ludlow Independent to discuss back-to-school in the time of COVID-19.

First our weekly news panel consisting of community reporter Lucy May, senior real-time editor Pat LaFleur and senior manager of enterprise/investigative Meghan Goth to discuss appraisal discrimination, closing power plants, a busy weekend for downtown, and more local Cincinnati news.

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NEW YORK —

When he was Donald Trump’s attorney, Michael Cohen was hellbent on silencing Stormy Daniels, even arranging a hush-money payment to the porn actress that landed him in federal prison.

Now, as one of many of the former president's insiders-turned-critics, Cohen is literally broadcasting Daniels' story — including intimate new details of her alleged sexual encounter with Trump — in a discussion ranging from shame and scandal to a haunted house in New Orleans.

Seeking to bury the hatchet, Cohen interviews Daniels in the latest episode of his podcast, “Mea Culpa,” in which the two commiserate over life-altering experiences with Trump and his recent departure from office.

“My battle is just now starting,” Daniels tells Cohen in their first ever conversation, referring to litigation she said had been in a holding pattern before Trump left office. “People are really upset, and they’re just going to get more pissed off at me.”

Cohen, in keeping with the title of his program, apologizes for “the needless pain" he put Daniels through when he arranged a $130,000 payment during the 2016 presidential campaign to keep her quiet about an alleged dalliance with Trump a decade earlier. Trump has denied the affair.

“Both of our stories will be forever linked with Donald Trump, but also with one another,” Cohen tells her. “Thanks for giving me a second chance.”

The scandal turned Stormy Daniels into a household name, and critics accused her of capitalizing on her newfound fame, including crisscrossing the country on a “Make America Horny Again” strip tour.

Federal prosecutors charged Cohen with skirting campaign contribution rules by arranging the hush-money payment to Daniels and a similar payment to Playboy model Karen McDougal. He pleaded guilty to those counts — as well as lying to Congress and tax evasion — and was sentenced to three years in federal prison.

Cohen has been producing his podcast from his Manhattan apartment, where he is serving the remainder of his sentence after he was released for a second time in July as part of an attempt to slow the spread of COVID-19 in federal prisons. The podcast is distributed by LiveXLive’s PodcastOne and produced by Audio Up.

Cohen and Daniels are united not only in infamy but deep regret over Trump. Despite the publicity boom — a windfall that included a bestselling book — Daniels said she longs for life before her allegations launched her into the zeitgeist.

“I got to go places I would never get to go,” she tells Cohen. "But overall, if I could just wave a magic wand and make everything go back to the way it was before, I would absolutely do that.”

Daniels said the waning weeks of Trump's presidency felt like the “eye of the storm.” The death threats — and headlines — had subsided as she remained in a sort of legal limbo.

But now she's braced for a “second wave” of controversy, including a defamation lawsuit she brought against Trump that she has taken all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Daniels sued Trump for defamation after the then-president commented on Twitter that a man she said had threatened her was “nonexistent.” She appealed a lower court's decision to dismiss the case and an order to pay Trump nearly $300,000 in attorneys' fees.

The lawsuit is among a minefield of legal issues Trump faces after leaving the White House, including state investigations in New York of his business dealings.

“I’ve already lost everything,” she said, referring to her prior way of life, “so I’m taking it all the way.”

Daniels also remains a witness in a federal criminal case against her own former attorney, Michael Avenatti, who is charged with cheating her out of $300,000 in proceeds from her 2018 book, “Full Disclosure.” Avenatti has pleaded not guilty.

The hourlong interview also includes graphic descriptions of Daniels' 2006 sexual encounter with Trump — details she said supports the veracity of her claims. She calls the encounter “the worst 90 seconds of my life, for sure, because it just made me hate myself.”

While she did not feel “physically threatened,” she said she had not expected to have sex with Trump and, at one point, thought about how to escape the room, thinking “I could definitely outrun him.”

She repressed details of the rendezvous for years, she said, adding the dynamics only came into focus after she saw the movie “Bombshell” about the sexual harassment women underwent in meetings with former Fox News executive Roger Ailes.

“I didn't say anything for years because I didn't remember," she said.

For Daniels, life after Trump has also included a new passion for ghost hunting and a related show, “Spooky Babes,” inspired by the “extremely haunted” house that bedeviled her in New Orleans' Garden District.

“I’ve been face to face with evil in the most intimate way,” Daniels said. “Demons don’t scare me anymore.”

High school football has returned to Northern Kentucky this month.

Members of the Beechwood football program, the defending Class 2A state champions, were the special guests of the WCPO High School Insider on Tuesday afternoon at the Fort Wright Chick-fil-A (3436 Madison Pike Route 17).

Beechwood coach Noel Rash along with senior offensive lineman/defensive lineman Luke Slusher (Western Kentucky University verbal commit) and senior slot receiver/defensive back Parker Mason discussed the upcoming season for the Tigers.

Rash also discussed reigning quarterback and reigning Kentucky Mr. Football Cameron Hergott (Eastern Kentucky University commit) after Hergott reclassified to the 2022 class.

Rash, Slusher and Mason discussed the tradition at Beechwood and how significant the 15 state titles are for the history of the program.

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High school football has returned to Greater Cincinnati this month.

Western Hills coach Armand Tatum along with junior quarterback Omar Beckley and senior wide receiver/linebacker Ibrahim Sidibe joined the WCPO High School Insider to discuss the upcoming season for the Mustangs.

WCPO's Mike Dyer and Caleb Noe hosted this special live episode Aug. 5 at the Western Hills Chick-fil-A on 6495 Glenway Avenue.

The Mustangs had five consecutive wins to complete the 2020 season and are eager to begin the season Aug. 20 against visiting Cincinnati Hills Christian Academy.

Tatum discussed the talent on both sides of the ball this season for the Mustangs and what the Western Hills program has meant to him on and off the field.

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High school football has returned to Greater Cincinnati this month.

Oak Hills coach Justin Roden along with junior quarterback Jaxon Schreiber and senior defensive tackle Jacob Hearn joined the WCPO High School Insider to discuss the upcoming season for the Highlanders.

WCPO's Mike Dyer and Caleb Noe hosted this special live episode Aug. 5 at the Western Hills Chick-fil-A on 6495 Glenway Avenue.

Roden, in his second season with Oak Hills, discussed how he's working to continue to improve the program this summer as the Highlanders prepare to travel at Turpin for the season opener Aug. 20.

Schreiber and Hearn discussed how Oak Hills has impacted them on and off the field and what makes high school football so special in the community.

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A jury was set to decide the federal wrongful conviction lawsuit of William “Ricky” Virgil against the City of Newport and two former Newport police officers but a U.S. District Court Judge agreed to delay the case. I-Team reporter Paula Christian joins the Hear Cincinnati podcast to explain the case.

First, the weekly Hear Cincinnati podcast panel discuss a new affordable housing plan, a local judge who ordered a COVID-19 as conditioin of probabtion, and a local condo tower ordered to make structural repairs.

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