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By KAREN CAMPBELL Assistant Managing Editor After eight months of negotiations, the Wapakoneta City School District has ratified a contract with teachers, who authorized a strike if the impasse continued.

Here's what some lawmakers and candidates had to say about President Barack Obama's speech on Afghanistan on Tuesday, Dec.

Republican U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan of Urbana said last week that he wants Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner to look into allegations that the advocacy group ACORN had at least a preliminary plan to boost Democrats' political prospects in 2008 in key congressional races in Ohio.

A House committee on Wednesday evening approved a bill to provide equal benefits to gay federal employees with domestic partners, but not without a political slugfest over whether the legislation is an attempt to undermine the Defense of Marriage Act .

Republican U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan of Urbana wants Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner to look into allegations that the advocacy group ACORN had an at least preliminary plan to boost Democrats' political prospects in 2008 in key congressional races in Ohio.

It was a little like preaching to the choir for Republican U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan's town-hall meeting last night at Bluffton University, but not completely.

In what's being called a huge victory for the Obama administration, the House of Representatives passed a health care reform bill late Saturday night.

The lights burn inside of the House of Representatives side of the U.S. Capitol late Saturday night as the health care bill is debated.

Why do they hate America? When it's a choice between strengthening the Patriot Act, or showing up for the Tea Party Patriots, what's a GOP lawmaker to do? We'll give you one guess... Several Republican members of Congress yesterday blew off votes on the signature anti-terror legislation of the post 9/11 era to attend Michele Bachmann's Tea Party ...

Missed out on Cash for Clunkers? Congress has another deal for you: Buy a home before May 1 and collect up to $6,500 from the government.

When "pay czar" Kenneth Feinberg appeared before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Wednesday , most members seemed quite pleased with his work.

WASHINGTON -- The Democratic health care plans emerging out of Congress this week are facing stiff opposition from Ohio Republicans and some resistance from Ohio Democrats.

After six months of making deals, Democratic leaders yesterday introduced a health-care reform bill that would expand coverage to almost all Americans and overhaul the insurance industry, while asking the wealthiest taxpayers to pay much of the tab.

A complete coincidence; happenstance even. That's what U.S. pay czar Kenneth Feinberg is calling the amazing confluence of timing that resulted in the Treasury and Fed both releasing major announcements on executive compensation within hours of one another last Thursday afternoon.

The Obama administration's "pay czar" who reduced pay for executives at seven major corporations doesn't want broader powers over the rest of the financial sector.

Something wasn't sitting right with former Rep. Jim McCrery after he finished a telephone interview on the donations made to former colleagues while he sits out a mandatory yearlong ban on lobbying them directly.

U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown said federal funding should be available when the time comes to help Northwestern Ohio fix its flood problems.Brown, who visited Findlay on Monday, said he had no reason to believe the federal government wouldn't contribute to our flood relief project once studies have been completed by the Army Corps of Engineers.

A federal effort to classify pocketknives that can be sprung open with one hand as switchblades is likely to be cut short by members of Congress who fear the change would turn millions of law-abiding outdoorsmen into outlaws.

As Washington, D.C., takes its first step toward legalizing gay marriage, opponents see little chance of stopping it Emily Belz Bishop Harry Jackson WASHINGTON - The Council of the District of Columbia is moving forward with a bill to legalize same-sex marriage in the district, and while Congress must review the new law, opponents in that body know ...

House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Darrell Issa and Domestic Policy Subcommittee Ranking Member Rep.