Ohio News

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During a conference call on Friday, Komen Northeast Ohio leaders said the 2012 Cleveland Komen Race for the Cure, to be held Sept.

Ohio Supreme Court Justice Paul Pfeifer has been traveling Ohio campaigning for the repeal of Ohio's death penalty.

CLEVELAND &#8212 A mentally disabled former drug dealer convicted in the fire deaths of nine people, including eight children at a birthday sleepover, on Wednesday won a new trial from a judge who said jailhouse snitches and other witnesses were unreliable.

That shocking statistic from land bank guru Jim Rokakis, now director of the Thriving Communities Institute , is a polite way of saying there is no market for homes in Cleveland.

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Ohio petroleum producers are pushing back against a call by the state attorney general to increase environmental penalties and chemical reporting requirements on the drilling industry.

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A fight is brewing in the U.S. South between Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich, and Mitt Romney's priority right now is winning Arizona and Michigan while keeping an eye on Ohio.

Sen. Rob Portman and other members of the Ohio delegation said they would push back against proposed defense cuts that could cost 1,000 jobs in the state and dramatically trim operations at Ohio's Air National Guard bases.

David Jones, deputy dog warden with Hamilton County SPCA carries Godzilla, an iguana after it was rescued from a home that caught fire in Mt.

A man who spent two decades on Ohio's death row before being released is suing the state and a county prosecutor for wrongful imprisonment.

Throughout the past 52 years, self-taught mosaic artist Phil Evanoff quietly has amassed a staggering body of work in the basement of his Chillicothe home.

The state party says it is partnering with Georgia Republicans for the CNN "Super Tuesday" debate.

The House on Thursday joined the Senate in voting to explicitly prohibit members of Congress and other top officials from making investments on insider information.

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BATAVIA , Ohio -- Ohio Gov. John Kasich has signed an executive order creating a new office and board tasked with streamlining various jobs policies and programs across the state.

Celebrity zookeeper Jack Hanna criticized Ohio lawmakers Thursday for not yet passing a bill to regulate exotic animals, months after authorities shot dozens of lions, tigers, bears and other wild creatures let loose by their suicidal owner.

A pickup truck lost control on an icy road and crashed head-on into a school bus Wednesday morning, sending eight children and three adults to a hospital with non-life threatening injuries, authorities said.

Republican presidential hopeful former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum speaks Tuesday during a primary night watch party in St.

An Ohio structure containing remnants of a two-story building where the Wright brothers rented space for their first bicycle shop has been declared a public nuisance and may eventually be demolished despite residents' efforts to preserve it.