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Win front row tickets to the Trans-Siberian Orchestra in Youngstown
by: James Bates Posted: Oct 14, 2026 / 12:20 PM EDT Updated: Oct 14, 2026 / 12:20 PM EDT YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (WKBN 27) – Trans-Siberian Orchestra is returning to Youngstown and WKBN 27 wants to give you the ultimate fan experience! TSO is back in Youngstown with a brand-new show “The Ghost Christmas Eve the Best of TSO and More.” The tour comes to the Covelli Centre with two spectacular shows 2:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. on Sunday, November 22.
Win tickets: Jason Aldean & Eric Church live at YSU Stadium
by: James Bates Posted: May 28, 2026 / 02:35 PM EDT Updated: May 28, 2026 / 02:37 PM EDT YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (WKBN) – You can be a part of the fun and excitement of the two-day 2026 Y-LIVE concert at YSU Stanbaugh Stadium on Friday June 10th and Saturday June 11th. WKBN 27 First News is giving you the chance for two great nights’ out to see Jason Aldean and Eric Church Live.
Win ‘The Price is Right Live’ tickets Original
(Price is Right live) by: James Bates Posted: Apr 1, 2026 / 03:40 PM EDT Updated: Apr 1, 2026 / 03:40 PM EDT YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (WKBN) – The Price Is Right Live™ is the hit interactive stage show that gives eligible individuals the chance to hear their names called and “Come On Down” to win.
Win suite tickets & pit passes for the Monster Truck Tour
by: James Bates Posted: Dec 29, 2025 / 04:12 AM EST Updated: Dec 22, 2025 / 12:16 PM EST YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (WYTV) – The Toughest Monster Truck Tour rolls back into the Valley and 33 WYTV wants to give you the best seats in the Covelli Centre! Enter below for the WYTV Toughest Monster Truck Tour Sweepstakes.
Win suite tickets & pit passes for the Monster Truck Tour
by: James Bates Posted: Dec 29, 2025 / 04:01 AM EST Updated: Dec 22, 2025 / 12:13 PM EST YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (WKBN) – The Toughest Monster Truck Tour returns to the Valley and WKBN 27 wants to give you the best seats in the Covelli Centre! Enter below for the WKBN Toughest Monster Truck Tour Sweepstakes. One lucky winner will receive a prize pack that includes: – Six (6) Suite Tickets for the Friday, January 30, 2026 show at the Covelli Centre.
Win ultimate Trans-Siberian Orchestra Fan Experience
by: James Bates Posted: Oct 3, 2025 / 04:11 PM EDT Updated: Oct 3, 2025 / 04:11 PM EDT YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (WKBN 27) – Trans Siberian Orchestra is returning to Youngstown and WKBN 27 wants to give you the ultimate fan experience! TSO is back in Youngstown with a brand-new show “The Ghost Christmas Eve the Best of TSO and More.” The tour comes to the Covelli Centre with two spectacular shows 2:30PM and 7:30PM on Friday, November 16th.
WKBN Creative Classroom Contest
A horizontal image of an empty primary school classroom. The setting is typically British. by: James Bates Posted: Sep 23, 2026 / 12:18 PM EDT Updated: Sep 23, 2026 / 12:18 PM EDT YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (WKBN) – WKBN 27 First News is honoring local educators with our Creative Classroom program.
PHOTOS: Sunday of the Bathurst 6 Hour
PHOTOS: Sunday of the Bathurst 6 Hour Sunday at the Bathurst 6 Hour held the main event of the Bathurst 6 Hour with Jayden Ojeda’s team taking top position in the race, Fanatec GT World Challenge also had their final race with the team of Liam Talbot and Maximillian Hofer bringing back to back wins for their team in the weekend. SpeedSeries is back in Phillip Island from the 12-14 May.
Ojeda wins Bathurst 6 Hour in thrilling fashion
A tense and thrilling 2023 Hi-Tec Oils Bathurst 6 Hour has finished with one-lap flyer after the eleventh safety car with Jayden Ojeda driving Simon Hodges’ Class X BMW M4 to victory. The race had everything with eleven safety cars, a red flag for a period and close results in most of the classes. Ojeda had the pace for the last hour, survived a tap with a lapped car that bent the steering, and was 2.7s ahead of the Russell family, father Wayne and brothers Drew and Aaron (BMW M3).
Leahey holds front-running position at 6 Hour halfway point
> News > National > 2023 Bathurst 6 Hour While the only change in the weather was the occasional glimpse of the sun, the running order leading up to the halfway point of the Hi-Tec Oils Bathurst 6 Hour on Mt Panorama had numerous leaders and changes. After 57 laps, Class X cars hold down the top seven positions with the top three covered by 1.2 seconds.
Davison leads at start of Bathurst 6 Hour
> News > National > 2023 Bathurst 6 Hour The 2023 Hi-Tec Oils Bathurst 6 Hour began in mostly overcast, cold and windy conditions on Mt Panorama and featured three lead changes in the first two laps. Beric Lynton (BMW M3) led off the start before Anton De Pasquale (BMW M4) forged through from third place to lead the first lap. Then Jayden Ojeda (M4) passed De Pasquale at the Chase on lap two to be out in front.
Begg takes second win of weekend in APC/GT4
The Monochrome GT4s in their debut with the Australian Production Cars at Mt Panorama again took the top three positions in the third and final race with Karl Begg the winner in his Mercedes AMG. Begg who was the two winner, finished ten seconds ahead of Tony Quinn who steered his Porsche Cayman to the first race win. Quinn had five seconds-plus over third place where Mark Griffith (AMG) overtook Grant Sherrin in his new APC Class X BMW M4 across the top of the mountain on the penultimate lap.
Back-to-back GT win for Talbot and Hofer
The team of Liam Talbot and Maximillian Hofer backed up their Easter Saturday winning effort in their Audi R8 LMS Evo with victory in the second one-hour race of the Fanatec GT World Challenge powered by AWS first round at Bathurst on Easter Sunday. Hofer started the race from position three behind the Triple Eight duo of Broc Feeney and Jamie Whincup.
Renee Gracie returns to racing in GTs
Former Porsche Carrera Cup Australian and Dunlop Super 2 driver Renee Gracie is returning to racing, this time in the Fanatec GT World Challenge Australia powered by AWS Championship. The return to motorsport has been two years in the planning with details on car, team and sponsors yet to be announced, although the second round in West Australia is targeted for the 28-year-old’s category debut. Gracie believes the series was the natural choice for her return.
Karl Begg victorious in APC/GT4 Race 2
The Australian Production Cars and Monochrome GT4s were out for their second 40 minute race where the latter cars were the new inclusion into the APC. The GT4s finished in the top three positions. Karl Begg (Mercedes AMG) fought off the early challenge from Iain Sherrin (Class X BMW M4) to then mount a successful challenge for the lead and go onto to a dominant victory ahead of first race winner Tony Quinn in his Porsche Cayman.
Talbot and Hofer win GT Race 1 in dominant fashion
A solid opening stint from Liam Talbot put him and Maximillian Hofer in the box seat to take out the first race in the 2023 Fanatec GT World Challenge Australia powered by AWS round one at Bathurst this afternoon. The Shannons Insurance Audi R8 LMS Evo driver pairing won the one-hour 26-lap race by 6.9s over Yasser Shahin and Garnett Patterson in the EMA Motorsport Porsche 911 GT3R.
Davison clinches pole for Bathurst 6 Hour
> News > National > 2023 Bathurst 6 Hour Will Davison is not only good at qualifying Supercars, but he is also handy in Production Cars with a pole position qualifying lap today for tomorrow’s Hi-Tec Oils Bathurst 6 Hour on Mt Panorama. Davison wheeled the Beric Lynton/Tim Leahey Class X BMW M3 around the mount in 2:24:4612s to be half a second faster than Drew Russell in the M3 he shares with his brother Aaron and father Wayne.
Quinn races to victory in Production Cars Race 1
In his Porsche Cayman GT4, Tony Quinn took out the first race in the new Australian Production Cars/Monochrome GT4 category at Mt Panorama today. The non-series race featured for the first time GT4 joining the traditional classes of the APC where Karl Begg was second in his Mercedes AMG GT4 while the race debut of a new Class X BMW M4 was a rewarding one for Grant Sherrin with third. Quinn qualified fastest but soon lost the lead to Beric Lynton (Class X BMW M3) and then to Sherrin.
Triple Eight Race Engineering lock out front row in GT Qualifying
The Triple 8 Mercedes AMG GT3s driven by Broc Feeney and Jamie Whincup have qualified fastest for the Fanatic GT World Challenge Australia powered by AWS Round one at the Hi-Tec Bathurst 6 Hour. Feeney posted a rapid 2:02:8483s lap as the chequered flag came out, to solidify his standing at the top of the time sheets. Whincup was within four hundredths of a second of his team mate with a 2:03.0163s before Feeney’s late effort. The pair will start tomorrow’s second race off the front row.
Bathurst 6 Hour Practice 2 topped by De Pasquale
The second session for the Hi-Tec Oils Bathurst 6 Hour was mainly held of a dry track, albeit under threatening skies that ultimately delivered some light rain and a couple of late red flags. Beforehand Shell Supercar driver Anton De Pasquale was the pacesetter with best time of 2:27:4019s in Anthony Soole’s Class X BMW M4 that was also driven by Adam Burgess.
Ojeda fastest in weather-delayed 6 Hour Practice
> News > National > 2023 Bathurst 6 Hour Rain and fog engulfed Mt Panorama this morning and delayed the opening practice session for the Hi-Tec Oils Bathurst 6 Hour. In the late, tricky, and abbreviated outing, Jayden Ojeda was the fastest in Simon Hodges’ Class X BMW M4 with a time of 2:53:3986s. Ojeda had a 2.3s margin on the Class A1 Mercedes-Benz AMG A45 of Brett Hobson/Michael Sheargold/Dylan O’Keeffe and the Mitsubishi Lancer EVO X in the hands of Tyler Mecklem and Hadrian Morrall.
Bathurst 6 Hour winners inducted
The 2022 Hi-Tec Oils Bathurst 6 Hour winners were today inducted into the National Motor Racing Museum’s Winners’ walk. Ahead of this weekend’s 2023 edition of the race, Cameron Hill and Thomas Sargent were presented with their winners’ plaque by Bathurst Mayor Robert Taylor, with the victorious BMW M2 Competition that will now take pride of place as the first 6 Hour winner on display. It will sit alongside other major Bathurst 12 Hour, 24 Hour and 1000 winners and noteworthy cars.
NKF SCM 2023: Shaping Clinician Advocates for Health Equity
Op-Med is a collection of original articles contributed by Doximity members. The emergence of sodium glucose transporter type 2 inhibitors has brought overwhelming optimism for those who treat chronic kidney disease. For the first time in decades, the nephrology community has been able to offer patients hope of a life without kidney failure. At the same time, we are faced with the harsh reality that many patients literally cannot afford these life-improving and lifesaving medications.
When A Physician Loses a Loved One
Op-Med is a collection of original articles contributed by Doximity members. The sound of keys, a lock opening, the wrenching sound of a door opening to the outside of where I had been imprisoned. Looking out, hoping for sunshine and blue skies, it was simply overcast. Once coming out from under cover, I felt a rather cold Ohio sprinkle that somehow seemed fitting for the situation, especially for me with no umbrella or quick shelter.
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