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State legislators are more polarized today over how to close a state budget gap than they were a month ago.

Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland has again denied mercy for condemned killer Kenneth Biros.

LAST week, Governor Ted Strickland commuted the sentence of Willie Knighten, a convicted murderer who had served 12 years of his 18-years-to-life sentence.

Remember how candidate Strickland said raising taxes would be bad? Remember how candidate Ted Strickland said increasing fees would be the same as raising taxes? Then, remember how Governor Strickland went ahead and raised taxes and raised fees, in the middle of a terrible recession for Ohio and a looming one that has come home to roost for the ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio - " Ohio Governor Ted Strickland announced $1.5 million in funding for roadwork development projects in Southwest Ohio.

Governor Ted Strickland today announced that 25 Ohio projects will receive more than $13 million in grant awards funded through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act's State Energy Program.

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Convicted murderer Vernon L. Smith will get a chance next week to make his pitch to Gov.

Tuesday, November 24, 2009 at 12:09 a.m. Read more: Local , Crime , Willie Knighten The timing of this story couldn't be more fitting.

Ohio has received or is scheduled to be given nearly $9 billion in federal "stimulus" money.

Sen. John A. Carey Jr. The Republican chairman of the Senate Finance Committee says he is willing to support the governor's plan to fix an $851 million budget shortfall, with a few amendments.

Lisa Patt-McDaniel wants Senate Republicans to reconsider their budget-fixing ideas.

Perry Silverman must pay $1.2 million in restitution and fines to win his freedom.

A federal appeals court on Wednesday granted Ohio's request to resume scheduled executions next month when the state will use a new, untested one-drug method of lethal injection.

Surrounded by family and with a continuous stream of well-wishers stopping by his parents' Hamilton Street home, Willie Knighten spent his first few hours as a free man making up for lost time.

State Rep. Todd Book- the Scioto County lawmaker who is a favorite of Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland and Ohio Democratic Party leaders - is dropping out of the Democratic primary in Ohio's Second Congressional District.

CINCINNATI: Former All-Star shortstop Leo Cardenas is among Ohio convicts just granted a pardon by the governor.

Twenty cents a day: That's all that fueled last week's cheap theatrics by Ohio Senate Republicans, who are rapidly losing whatever respect anyone is still dumb enough to give them.

Gov. Ted Strickland on Tuesday, Nov. 23, granted pardons to 68 Ohioans and commuted the sentences for 10 others, including a Lucas County man who has served 12 years for a murder that the governor and the trial judge believe he likely did not commit.

"Here's home," Lori Hopkins said, gesturing toward a dilapidated camper parked along a gravel road in the hills of southeastern Ohio.