Ohio News

COLUMBUS -- Ohio House Democrats want voters to be able to register online without then having to send information through the mail.

Republican U.S. Rep. Steve Austria, a former state Senator from the Dayton suburb of Beavercreek, repeatedly championed state laws that he and other supporters believed would make the state safer.

COLUMBUS: Ohio legislative leaders have received scores of e-mails from Ohioans who have been told by a conservative anti-tax group that a proposal to delay planned income tax reductions is a "retroactive tax increase." Another driving force behind constituent feedback on the proposal is school districts and mental health providers.

The U.S. Supreme Court has reinstated the death penalty against an Ohio man who strangled and stabbed to death a man he met in a gay bar in 1985.

Ohio's governor and members of the horse racing industry are concerned that voters' recent approval of casinos in four cities will hurt the state's already struggling racetracks, which employ about 12,000. Gov.

Authorities are investigating whether the Cleveland man who owned the home where several bodies were found is connected to any killings in places he lived while in the military.

The Ohio business of Tri-State Racetrack and Casino comes from Southeast Ohio where voters rejected the casino measure.

The family of a Connecticut woman mauled and blinded by a chimpanzee is seeking to sue the state for $150 million.

Television cooking star Rachael Ray has descended on a reeling Ohio town to boost the local food supply.

The report, Toxic Chemicals on Tap: How Gas Drilling Threatens Drinking Water , details how the chemicals in gas drilling could endanger clean water in Ohio.

COLUMBUS -- Large budget cuts to Ohio's adoption services will make it more difficult for the 3,000 children in need of a stable home to find suitable parents, advocates said.

WASHINGTON, Pa. -- A man was convicted for a second time for his role in the shooting deaths of two Ohio college students a decade ago.

People at the highest risk to contract the H1N1 virus across the state should all be vaccinated within the next two weeks, according to Ohio's top health official.

SPRINGFIELD -- A prosecutor said five adopted children of an Ohio woman accused of abusing them were in a 'living nightmare.' Prosecutor Chris Wagner leveled the charge during opening statements Thursday in the trial of Vonda Ferguson of Springfield.

Authorities say Anthony Sowell lured women into his home in a busy neighborhood, killed them - most by strangulation - and scattered their remains throughout the inside and buried some in the backyard.

Ohio is spending $18,000 in overtime to erase a backlog in the processing of mail-in vehicle registrations.

A Gurnee cab driver is being extradited to Ohio for gross abuse of a corpse and tampering with evidence in connection with a skeleton discovered in southwest Ohio two years ago.

Senator Sherrod Brown announced Friday nearly 2,500 Ohioans have unclaimed tax refunds.

Ohio voters cleared the way in Tuesday's election for casinos to be built in Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, and Toledo.

The floor of VFW Post 291 has been scuffed by the shoes and boots of veterans who fought in wars going back nearly a century, to World War I. The setting is a comfort for Willis Cochran, who served in the Navy during the Vietnam War.