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Columbus city workers, from left, John Stinson, Zach Logue and Jake Lincicoma install a weather siren on Lindora Drive on the East Side.

The Highway Patrol says up to 30 people have suffered injuries in the collision of a commercial bus and a car on Interstate 75 in northwest Ohio.

The project, which started at the beginning of April, is on a 2-mile stretch of the roadway from the south end of Bellaire to the south end of Shadyside.

Federal and Ohio officials couldn't agree on spending for a state-run stopgap health insurance plan that covers Ohioans who can't get coverage elsewhere, so the U.S. government will take it over, state officials said Tuesday.

The Democratic leader in the Ohio House says he's stepping down from his role before his term ends next year.

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Members of the Cincinnati tea party will gather at noon Tuesday at the city's Fountain Square, then march to the nearby federal building to continue the rally.

The Ohio Tax Credit Authority on Monday approved assistance for 10 projects expected to create more than 1,100 jobs and retain more than 21,000 positions statewide.

Ohio is reportedly one of 15 states where undocumented immigrants are being sent back to their home country after seeking medical care.

Autopsy results are due for a 17-year-old boy whose body was found by a roadside in northern Ohio.

A 19-year-old man suspected of stabbing an 11-week-old baby to death with a kitchen knife is being held in a northern Ohio jail on bond of more than $1 million.

House Republicans last month put an amendment in the budget that would require universities to charge in-state tuition rates for out-of-state students who are given college documentation so they can vote in Ohio.

Connie Pillich, now serving her third term in the Ohio House of Representatives, announced Monday that she will take on one-term incumbent Ohio Treasurer Josh Mandel in 2014.

As part of the Obama Administration's all-of-the-above strategy to support safe and responsible domestic energy production, the Department of the Interior [DOI] announced the release last Thursday of an updated draft proposal that would establish commonsense safety standards for hydraulic fracturing on public and Indian lands.

Confronting Suburban Poverty , book and policy-making campaign launched Monday by the Brookings Institution , lists metropolitan Columbus, including surrounding counties, among 15 regions in the nation with the fastest-growing poverty rates in its suburbs between 2000 and 2010.

Our partners at NewsChannel5 have uncovered reports of thefts from apartment complex rent drop boxes in 13 Northeast Ohio towns, including Twinsburg.

Gas prices have taken a big jump in Ohio and the U.S. A gallon of regular gas in Ohio was listed at an average of about $3.84 in Monday's survey from auto club AAA, the Oil Price Information Service and Wright Express.

Authorities say a 52-year-old man died when he fell from a cliff while rappelling in southeastern Ohio over the weekend.

For the first two years of his term as Attorney General, we didn't hear much from Mike DeWine.

JOHN SEEWER Associated Press TOLEDO - The wait for answers is far from over for parents who for years have lived with the worry of not knowing what's behind the mysterious cancers that have sickened dozens of children in a rural area of northern Ohio.