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France ends up as the butt of many American jokes. During the early stages of the Iraq war, many in this country took to replacing a certain F word in food names with "freedom." What kind of energy jokes do you ...

Extreme righty, moderate, lefty leaning - it doesn't matter. Attorney preferable, but not necessary.

Sophomores at publicly funded high schools scored slightly lower on the state's graduation test for the second straight year, with more than a third failing at least one of the test's five sections, preliminary ...

Once known as the Mother of Presidents, Ohio is now getting poorer, older and dumber - and making all the wrong moves to reverse the situation.

A bill introduced by State Rep. Kathleen Chandler would require school districts to bus students up through grade eight who live within two miles of school or wherever there are no sidewalks available to walk ...

Hoping to prevent a $4 million problem marring Ohio's highway system, the Ohio Department of Transportation kicked off its annual spring litter cleanup by enlisting the help of an army of volunteers to prevent ...

Housing advocates are urging Ohio Attorney General Nancy Hardin Rogers to reject the ballot language that summarizes a pair of proposals by payday lenders seeking to overturn a law that tightens borrowing rules ...

Gov. Ted Strickland has appointed a Navy veteran and former state lawmaker to head Ohio's first cabinet-level veterans' agency.

Last weekend former Ohioan Chester Finn Jr. went off on a rant about our state in The Wall Street Journal.

COLUMBUS - In an attempt to stimulate competition among television providers, state Rep.

Ohio voters and those in the rest of the country apparently already have settled on who to blame for the seemingly incessant drumbeat of gloomy economic news: George Walker Bush.

TV Online Agreement extends unemployment benefits for 13 weeks By William Hershey COLUMBUS - As many as 280,000 Ohioans could qualify for an extra 13 weeks of unemployment compensation benefits under an ...

Gov. Ted Strickland will spend some of his enormous political capital this year to campaign for fellow Democrat Barack Obama.

COLUMBUS - An anti-sweatshop group wants Ohio to pressure two companies it does business with to improve what it says are abusive working conditions in factories abroad.

As he builds a sweeping education plan, Gov. Ted Strickland will host 12 forums across the state this summer to gather ideas on how to improve Ohio primary and secondary schools.

On Tuesday, Matthew Vadum at NewsBusters exposed "Al-Qaeda's law firm," the so-called Center for Constitutional Rights , the group that argued the case that led to the "the U.S. Supreme Court's lawless, ...

"Today Ohio wines are better than ever, " Strickland said. "Ohio vineyards and winemakers produce a wide array of fine wines to please every consumer's palate." The 2008 "Ohio Quality Wine" award winners are: ...

' A divided Supreme Court ruled 5-4 this morning, for the first time in U.S. history, that Americans have an individual right to bear arms.

Walker Carpenter, 76, of West Chester still rides his bike and plays sports. "I turned 76 just last week, but I feel 46,'' Carpenter said.

Twin Valley to close doors Monday - DAyton Daily News By Anthony Gottschlich - June 29, 2008 DAYTON - Its beds empty and its staff packed up, the Dayton area's only public psychiatric hospital closes Monday, ...