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A veteran political aide will seek an Ohio House seat in 2010. Democrat Lou Gentile of Steubenville, who recently served as assistant director of the Governor's Office of Appalachia, will announce his candidacy for the 95th House District this week.

Ohio Senate President Bill Harris COLUMBUS, Ohio -- In a media release distributed shortly after 7 pm Wednesday, after another frustrating day of closed door meetings on how to fill an immediate hole in Ohio's budget while also devising long term solutions both parties can agree on, Senate President Bill Harris said he is willing to meet Gov.

Confronted with a public smoking ban, higher sin taxes and more anti-smoking efforts, fewer Ohioans are lighting up.

A strong showing from local unions turned out Thursday when Democrat Lou Gentile officially announced his candidacy for the Ohio House in 2010.

Thrilled with twin victories this month, Republican governors are looking to lead a party-wide resurgence in 2010 and shape the GOP for years to come.

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Ohio lawmakers were deadlocked once again on how to fix Ohio's budget Wednesday, as a Senate Republican proposal blending most of Gov.

Prison officials in Ohio never planned to become pioneers in death penalty protocol.

A judge is set to sentence the central figure in a sexual harassment scandal that brought down Ohio's former attorney general on unrelated theft in office and other charges.

Ohio Senate Republicans are greasing the legislative rails for a Wednesday committee vote on a measure that would delay a 4.2 percent income tax cut to plug an $851 million hole in the state budget.

Sen. John Kerry's campaign has a new, unofficial strategy: To get even, get mad.

Gov. Ted Strickland, whose popularity has declined with the economy, will soon pick his running mate and begin his 2010 re-election campaign in earnest.

The state parole board on Tuesday rejected a plea of mercy from a man who killed a woman and scattered her body parts, clearing the way for him to become the first person in the nation executed with the injection of a single drug.

Ohio Tax Commissioner Richard A. Levin and Gov. Ted Strickland discuss tax options in September.

Ohio is turning a "reddish tinge," says the Columbus Dispatch, and it isn't referring to the autumn colors but a rising Republican tide that threatens to break the Democrats' political grip on this pivotal Midwestern state in next year's mid-term elections.

I like to let breaking poll numbers sit for a while before commenting.A Let them age and cure.A So here's my take on the recent spate of polling in Ohio.

The Ohio Telecom Modernization Act of 2009, which has been introduced in the General Assembly as Senate Bill 162 and House Bill 276, is a bipartisan, common-sense approach to modernizing Ohio's outdated telecommunications laws.

3 portend little for the governor's race in Ohio next year, Ohio Democratic Party Chairman Chris Redfern harrumphed in his post-election news conference.

Statehouse antics this week could determine if Ohioans can keep looking to the state Senate for some Columbus leadership -- or should expect cheap-shot politicking until the 2010 election.

Since the resumption of capital punishment in 1977 after a roughly 10-year hiatus, only three men have been put to death by the federal government, all for murder and all in the civilian justice system.

The state's decision to replace a three-drug lethal injection with a powerful dose of one anesthetic is raising the possibility of what may have seemed unthinkable not so long ago: a truce in the long-running legal challenges to death penalty injection across the country.