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Charges were filed Tuesday against a 13-year-old girl accused to stabbing a boy as he was getting off the school bus.

President-elect Barack Obama says the recession could linger for years unless Congress passes his economic stimulus plan.

COLUMBUS, Ohio - The unemployment claims systems in Ohio and at least two other states buckled this week under an onslaught of telephone calls and Web site hits from people who lost their jobs at the end of ...

An Columbus man charged in the slaying of a young mother and the abduction of her 4-year-old son is expected to transferred to a Dayton jail Wednesday.

A North Dakota college's search committee is inviting six finalists for the president's job to visit the campus, including an educator from the College of Southern Idaho in Twin Falls.

COLUMBUS, Ohioa 'Columbus police say a man has been charged with killing three people found shot to death in a duplex home nearly three months ago.

COLUMBUS - Ohio juries sentenced three people to death last year, matching the lowest number since the state re-enacted capital punishment 27 years ago.

A Columbus man was formally charged Tuesday after allegedly confessing to killing a woman whose 4-year-old son was found abandoned at a rest stop along Interstate 70.

Investigators have charged a man in the October murders of three people who were shot execution-style inside a West Side home.

A 22-year-old man was arrested in connection with the slaying of a Dayton-area mother, police said Monday morning.

An internal police review has concluded that an officer who shot and killed a man earlier this year on the city's east side acted within policy, 10TV News reported.

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Crimes such as kidnapping that aid human trafficking would be punished more severely under a bill Gov.

Police searched a north side apartment Sunday night and questioned three men in connection with the slaying of a Dayton-area mother.

COLUMBUS - Ohio is moving ahead to ban all tobacco products from prisons by March despite questions about the state's authority to put such a ban in place.

But for the first time, Columbus police shot revelers who they said refused to drop their weapons.

COLUMBUS - Two people have been charged in connection with shootings late New Year's Eve and early New Year's Day that resulted in officers opening fire, police said Friday.

I didn't see this story about state of Ohio government improvement efforts in any Ohio media. Apparently, the Strickland administration is using a quality management tool called Kaizen to cut some of the fat out of government operations. Check out the story from the Chicago Tribune.

How long will it be until a major Ohio newspaper shows the financial strains that dailies across the country have experienced? It may already be happening at the Cleveland Plain Dealer which went through a round of early retirements and layoffs in late 2008.

If you care about information and objective news, read this op-ed piece from an Ohio blogger. Then write a letter to the editor of your local newspaper and ask them what they're doing to change their business model.

Nearly two dozen school buses owned by a contractor for Columbus City Schools have failed recent state inspections, spurring the school district to haul in the entire fleet for examination this week.

Youngstown State comes back to beats Detroit 80-78 DeAndre Mays scored 19 points and Kelvin Bright added 17 to lead Youngstown State to an 80-78 victory over Detroit on Thursday.