Severe storms have wreaked havoc across the Midwest, causing tornadoes, heavy rains, and flash flooding.
Democrats are seeing a fresh opportunity for an upset in a northeast Ohio congressional seat.
A federal judge has extended his block on enforcement of an Ohio law that would require children under 16 to get parental consent to use social media apps while a legal challenge proceeds.
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine is using his bully pulpit to call for an end to the death penalty in his state.
Police in Ohio are still searching for suspects who opened fire near a busy street festival in Toledo and wounded 12 people over the weekend.
Authorities say a shooting near a busy street festival in Ohio has wounded at least 12 people.
Ohio is suspending a tax break that has been critical to its competition with other states to attract the massive new facilities that power and train artificial intelligence chatbots.
Vice President JD Vance’s decision to extend his fight against Medicaid fraud beyond Democratic states to his red home state of Ohio has set off a scramble among the state’s Republicans — including his close ally Vivek Ramaswamy, the party’s nominee for governor.
The primary election in Ohio has set up what is expected to be one of the most expensive races for U.S. Senate this year as Republicans try to hold on to the chamber, while biotech billionaire Vivek Ramaswamy will face a challenge from the state’s former health director as he seeks to keep the governor’s office in GOP hands.
Candidates for Ohio’s top elected offices will stand before voters in a statewide primary on Tuesday, although many of them are already looking ahead to the November general election.
Democrat Amy Acton is running unopposed in her party’s primary for Ohio governor, but she'll face some steep challenges in the November general election.
The U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear arguments over a Mississippi law that allows counting late-arriving mail ballots after Election Day.
Jurors in Ohio have begun deliberating in the corruption trial of two fired FirstEnergy Corp. executives charged for their alleged roles in the $60 million bribery scheme centered on a $1 billion nuclear plant bailout.
The U.S. military says a KC-135 refueling aircraft supporting operations against Iran crashed in western Iraq, killing all six crew members.
Republican U.S. Sen. Jon Husted has testified remotely in Akron, Ohio, in the high-profile corruption trial of two former FirstEnergy Corp. executives.
The $4.3 million that Akron-based FirstEnergy paid veteran utility lawyer Sam Randazzo in 2019 is at the center of another criminal trial tied to Ohio's sweeping $60 million bribery scandal.
A video alleging fraud in Somali-run child care centers in Minneapolis has drawn attention throughout the United States.
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and Lt. Gov. Garlin Gilchrist are taking on the Ohio governor and Jim Tressel in a pair of Michigan-Ohio State football wagers.
Former Democratic U.S. Rep. Tim Ryan has decided not to run for Ohio governor next year.
The stunning indictment that led to the arrest of more than 30 people — including Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier and other NBA figures — has drawn new scrutiny of the booming business of sports betting in the U.S. The multibillion-dollar industry has made it easy for sports fans — and even some players — to wager on everything from the outcome of games to that of a single play with just a few taps of a cellphone.
The agency that oversees sports gambling in Ohio says it is working with Major League Baseball on the investigation of Cleveland Guardians pitchers Emmanuel Clase and Luis Ortiz, but had no further comment.
An Ohio city whose Haitian migrants were disparaged by President Donald Trump last year as he pitched voters on his plans for an immigration crackdown is now bracing to defend them against possible deportation.
President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans have made it a priority this year to require people to prove citizenship before they can register to vote, but turning that aspiration into reality has proved difficult.
A divided Ohio Supreme Court has allowed enforcement of the state's ban on gender-affirming care for minors while an appeal proceeds.
Another round of torrential rain and flash flooding has come for parts of the South and Midwest already heavily waterlogged by days of severe storms that also spawned some deadly tornadoes.
The head of the Environmental Protection Agency has announced a series of actions to roll back landmark environmental regulations, including rules on pollution from coal-fired power plants, climate change and electric vehicles.
The timing of President Donald Trump’s endorsement of Republican Vivek Ramaswamy for Ohio governor has stunned and intrigued Ohio political observers.
Republican Heather Hill is methodically building a campaign for Ohio governor outside the limelight being grabbed by more prominent candidates.
Republican Vivek Ramaswamy will launch his bid for Ohio governor on Feb. 24 in his native Cincinnati, with ensuing events in the Columbus, Toledo and Cleveland areas.
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine is nominating former Ohio State Buckeyes football coach Jim Tressel as the state's next lieutenant governor.
Conservatives’ nationwide offensive against transgender care is increasing trying to cut off care for transgender adults, and a panel of Georgia lawmakers has become the first in 2025 to move forward.
A new lawsuit alleges for the first time that people died because of the disastrous 2023 East Palestine, Ohio, train derailment.
Ohio State, the first team to run the gauntlet of four playoff games on its way to the national title, celebrated with 30,000 Buckeyes fans on Sunday at Ohio Stadium.
Fresh off of his unexpected departure from President Donald Trump's Department of Government Efficiency, Vivek Ramaswamy has set his sights on becoming governor of Ohio, his home state.
U.S. defense contractor Anduril Industries is preparing to build a massive advanced manufacturing facility in central Ohio.
Former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy has expressed interest in the Ohio U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Vice President-elect JD Vance.
Columbus, Ohio, attorney and former state Sen. Ben Espy will be remembered at a service for his decades of service to the state and city.
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine has signed legislation that boosts the rights of parents to know when schools are changing their child’s health care or preparing to present lessons involving sexuality or gender.
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine has vetoed part of a bill cast by state lawmakers as protecting the medical free speech of doctors and other health professionals.
People seeking copies of police and jail videos in Ohio may have to pay up to $750 per department if Gov. Mike DeWine signs a measure approved by the state Legislature.
Governor Gretchen Whitmer and Ohio Governor Mike DeWine placed a sweet wager ahead of the Michigan Wolverines vs. the Ohio State Buckeyes football game on Saturday.
A ban on transgender students from kindergarten through college using multiperson bathrooms that fit their gender identities has become law in Ohio.
JD Vance’s election as vice president has opened up one of Ohio’s U.S. Senate seats for the third time in as many years.
The Republican-led Ohio Senate has approved a bill banning transgender students from using bathrooms that fit their gender identities.
Ohio officials have stationed state police at Springfield schools in response to bomb threats that officials say are mostly coming from overseas.
Ohio state police will help protect schools in a city that has endured dozens of violent threats in the wake of a national political furor over Haitian migrants.
Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance isn't backing away from the false claims he and Donald Trump have been making that Haitians living in an Ohio community are abducting and eating pets.
A judge in Ohio says a state law that limits gender-affirming health care for youth under 18 can go into effect.
Republican Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine says he'll work to defeat a fall ballot issue to remake the state’s troubled political mapmaking system.
The 2024 White House campaign has thrust a handful of governors and senators into the mix for vice president.
A prominent Democratic law firm has filed suit in Ohio against a ban on foreign nationals and green card holders contributing to state ballot campaigns.
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine has signed a measure to ensure President Joe Biden will appear on the state ballot in November.
A temporary fix allowing President Joe Biden to appear on this fall’s ballot has cleared the Ohio House, along with a ban on foreign nationals contributing to state ballot campaigns that representatives said was demanded in exchange by the Ohio Senate.
President Joe Biden will be formally nominated as the Democratic presidential nominee through a virtual roll call ahead of the party’s official convention in Chicago in August — a maneuver that will allow Biden to appear on the ballot in Ohio this November.
The rare special session Republican Gov. Mike DeWine called to pass legislation ensuring President Joe Biden appears on Ohio's fall ballot could take several days.
Ohio’s Republican Gov. Mike DeWine is calling a rare special session of the General Assembly next Tuesday to pass legislation ensuring that President Joe Biden is on the state’s 2024 ballot.
Ohio is pulling out all the stops for Monday’s total solar eclipse, as it braces for potentially hundreds of thousands of visitors.
Donald Trump got what he wanted when former car dealer Bernie Moreno won the Republican Senate primary in Ohio.
Former President Donald Trump claimed that he — not President Joe Biden — will protect Social Security and warned of a “bloodbath” if he loses in November as he campaigned for Senate candidate Bernie Moreno in Ohio.
The most high-profile election in Ohio’s primary on Tuesday will be the Republican contest to take on the state’s Democratic U.S. senator.
Ohio is ready to begin doling out hundreds of millions of dollars in opioid settlement money to community and government organizations.
In his bid for U_S_ Senate in Ohio, Trump-endorsed Republican Bernie Moreno casts himself as a “political outsider.”.
Ohio’s Republican attorney general is backing a legislative effort that would bring nitrogen gas executions to the state to end a yearslong unofficial moratorium on the death penalty.
The Republican-dominated Ohio Senate has voted to override GOP Gov. Mike DeWine’s veto of legislation banning gender-affirming care for minors.
Ohio's proposals for gender-affirming care could leave thousands of transgender adults scrambling to find medical providers who would be able to offer hormones and other services they rely on.
A transgender candidate vying for a seat in the Republican-majority Ohio House is now cleared to run after her certification was called into question for omitting her former name on circulating petitions.
Republican-led state legislatures are again considering bills restricting medical care for transgender youths and some adults the year after a wave of high-profile bills became law.
Republican Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine has broken from his party and vetoed legislation banning all gender-affirming care for minors and transgender athletes’ participation in girls and women’s sports.
Ohio’s former top utility regulator has pleaded not guilty in connection with a $60 million bribery scheme.
A constitutional amendment to protect abortion rights in Ohio will be decided in what is expected to be a preview of abortion battles across the country in 2024.
Anti-abortion groups seeking to build opposition to a reproductive rights measure in Ohio are messaging heavily around a term for an abortion procedure that hasn’t been legal in the U.S. for over 15 years.
In-person voting for a November ballot measure over abortion rights is beginning in Ohio, the latest state where voters will decide the issue after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a nationwide right to the procedure last year.
President Joe Biden ordered federal agencies to hold Norfolk Southern accountable for its February derailment in eastern Ohio and appoint a FEMA official to oversee East Palestine's recovery, but he stopped short of declaring a disaster.
The same Ohio river valley where the Wright brothers pioneered human flight will soon manufacture cutting-edge electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft.
Amazon’s profitable cloud business will invest roughly $7.8 billion by the end of 2029 to expand its data center operations in central Ohio.
States are increasingly looking to make a powerful veterinary tranquilizer a controlled substance now that it's been showing up in illicit drugs used by humans and contributing to a growing number of overdose deaths.
The largest corruption case in Ohio history culminated last week with guilty verdicts for the ex-House Speaker and a lobbyist who was the former head of the Republican Party.
After the train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, tons of contaminated dirt needed somewhere to go. That somewhere was US Ecology, a waste disposal company in Van Buren Township specializing in hazardous waste.
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is warning the CEO of Norfolk Southern that the freight rail company must “demonstrate unequivocal support for the people” of East Palestine, Ohio, and surrounding areas.