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Welfare drug testing plan removed from Ohio bill
May 17, 2012 COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A wide-ranging midterm budget bill cleared the Ohio Senate on Wednesday after lawmakers removed a contentious pilot program that would have tied welfare benefits to clean drug... more »»
Biden attacks Romney tenure as venture capitalist
May 17, 2012 YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (AP) — Vice President Joe Biden, campaigning in Democratic territory with high unemployment, went after Republican Mitt Romney's business background Wednesday and cast him as a... more »»
Ohio school cuts insurance, birth control coverage
May 17, 2012 CINCINNATI (AP) — A Catholic university in eastern Ohio is dropping its student health insurance program partly because of a new federal health care rule requiring religious-affiliated institutions'... more »»
Kucinich announces he won't run in Wash.
May 17, 2012 OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Ohio Rep. Dennis Kucinich won't be running for Congress in Washington state. more »»
10-year-old girl shot at Ohio restaurant dies
May 16, 2012 CLEVELAND (AP) — A 10-year-old girl who was critically injured in April in a restaurant shooting by her father that killed her sister and her mother has died, family members said. more »»
Ohio Senate wants welfare tied to clean drug tests
May 16, 2012 COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A pilot program that would tie welfare benefits to clean drug tests is making its way through the Ohio Senate, amid criticism that a recent change to the state's constitution... more »»
More than 200 attend slain Ohio Marine's funeral
May 16, 2012 More than 200 attend slain Ohio Marine's funeral CINCINNATI (AP) — More than 200 people attended the funeral of a 25-year-old Marine from southwest Ohio who was killed this month in... more »»
Ohio Senate approves horizontal drilling rules
May 16, 2012 COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio senators approved new regulations for horizontal shale drilling on Tuesday in a bipartisan vote punctuated by a spoken rendition of "The Beverly Hillbillies" theme song. more »»
Death penalty for Ohio man in triple stabbing
May 16, 2012 COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A three-judge panel on Tuesday handed down a death penalty verdict for an Ohio man after he pleaded guilty to killing a woman he lived with and her two children on Thanksgiving... more »»
Ohio gov signs bill to get rid of new election law
May 16, 2012 COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio's Republican governor signed legislation Tuesday to get rid of a contentious new election law that Democrats and others have been trying to get voters in the presidential... more »»
Ohio's first casino opens to music video show
May 15, 2012 CLEVELAND (AP) — Ohio's first casino opened Monday night with long lines of gamblers ready to roll the dice, a glitzy music video instead of a traditional ribbon cutting and a taste of Las Vegas wit... more »»
House explosion seriously injures Ohio man
May 15, 2012 NEWARK, Ohio (AP) — An explosion at a house in central Ohio seriously injured an Ohio man whose wife and infant daughter escaped unharmed. more »»
Judge sets sentencing in Ohio cross-burning case
May 15, 2012 COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A judge has set a sentencing date for a man who pleaded guilty to a civil rights charge in the case of a wooden cross bearing a racial slur that was burned in the yard of a... more »»
Ohio man attempts world record with fist pumping
May 15, 2012 AKRON, Ohio (AP) — A northeast Ohio man is hoping hours of fist pumping will land him a world record.The Akron Beacon Journal (http://bit. more »»
Ohio driver who killed trooper to return to prison
May 15, 2012 DELAWARE, Ohio (AP) — A central Ohio man who killed a state trooper in a 2001 drunken driving crash is being sent back to prison for getting behind the wheel again. more »»
Ohio school district has teens watch 'Bully' film
May 15, 2012 CINCINNATI (AP) — About 9,000 Cincinnati Public School students are seeing an anti-bullying documentary that stirred debate over its initial rating restricting children under 17 from seeing it... more »»
OH area faces costly trials in septic tank slaying
May 14, 2012 LOGAN, Ohio (AP) — Officials and residents of a southeast Ohio county are concerned about bills the Appalachian area faces for three murder trials in the slaying of a woman found strangled in a... more »»
Criminals turn crocheters in Ohio prison program
May 14, 2012 LEBANON, Ohio (AP) — Robert Mack killed a Mount Airy man in a shootout in 2007.Jonathan Seals shot his mother's boyfriend to death in Springfiel. more »»
Ohio GOP leaders withdraw provisional ballot claim
May 12, 2012 COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Republican lawmakers on Friday dropped their lawsuit against the state's elections chief over the handling of provisional ballots after a federal judge threatened them with... more »»
Cleveland casino to mark Ohio gambling debut
May 12, 2012 CLEVELAND (AP) — The opening of the first of four Ohio casinos will test the promise of new jobs, a tax windfall and urban revival in the heart of the Rust Belt. more »»
Ohio widow of suicidal animal owner pays taxes
May 12, 2012 ZANESVILLE, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio widow facing foreclosure has paid back taxes on the rural property where she and her husband once housed dozens of exotic animals before police were forced to shoot... more »» |
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