State Wire
Interns work on prison inspections at short-staffed watchdog
CLEVELAND (AP) — The legislative watchdog evaluating Ohio’s prisons is so short-staffed that unpaid interns are working on inspections, pr...
January 21st, 2019 |
Two people shot, killed at Columbus internet cafe
COLUMBUS — Two people are dead after a shooting at an East Side business early Sunday morning, Columbus police said.Police were called at 4:06 a...
January 20th, 2019 |
Ohio launches adoption, foster care awareness campaign
COLUMBUS (AP) — Ohio has launched a public awareness campaign to boost interest in foster care and adoption.The announcement by Gov. Mike DeWine...
January 20th, 2019 |
One Ohio lawmaker’s answer to the wall conundrum: Let citizens pay for it themselves
WASHINGTON, D.C. — It started, as these things often do, with a few asides to Rep. Warren Davidson, a Troy Republican who represents one of the ...
January 20th, 2019 |
Youth ministries offer a lifeline as teens navigate their faith
TOLEDO — On Sundays at Epworth United Methodist Church, if a congregant isn’t straightening her choir robe in a hallway, she might be shoo...
January 19th, 2019 |
Ohio film commissions seeking bigger production incentives
CLEVELAND (AP) — The film commissions of Cleveland and Cincinnati are asking Ohio to increase the annual amount of tax incentives to draw more f...
January 19th, 2019 |
First medical marijuana sold in Ohio as dispensaries open
CLEVELAND (AP) — One of the first, if not the first, person to purchase medical marijuana in Ohio on Wednesday morning thinks the much-anticipat...
January 16th, 2019 |
Hospital: Doc gave near-death patients excessive pain meds
COLUMBUS (AP) — An intensive care doctor ordered “significantly excessive and potentially fatal” doses of pain medicine for at least...
January 15th, 2019 |
New governor to be sworn in at home, then at Statehouse
COLUMBUS (AP) — Republican Mike DeWine is set to be sworn in as Ohio’s 70th governor in a midnight ceremony at his Cedarville home.The for...
January 13th, 2019 |
Man achieves goal to have father buried with military honors
RITTMAN, Ohio (AP) — Having waited 64 years for the reunion, Rex Beach struggled to leave his father’s casket when the time came.“It...
January 13th, 2019 |
