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DAYTON, Ohio - The president of a not-for-profit company that runs three Dayton charter schools for struggling youth was a troubled teen herself.

It's not clear from history if Emperor Nero really fiddled while ancient Rome burned.

I should be writing this at the Coshocton Public Library. And why not? It has everything I need.

Butler County is host to one of the largest investments coming to Ohio, a project state and local officials are eager to make sure gets off the ground.

Gov. Ted Strickland's popularity has fallen, but his plan for gambling gets high marks from Ohio voters.

This June 15, 2009 file photo shows motorists passing by an alleged brothel in Warwick, R.I. In the frenzied rush after Rhode Island's budget passed in late June, state lawmakers were unable to agree on a compromise to close a 30-year-old legal loophole that permits prostitution so long as it happens indoors because many cash-strapped states have ...

The expansion of broadband Internet to southeast Ohio recently made significant strides towards the provision of networks to both the healthcare industry and area residents.

WOMAN ARRESTED FOR HEROIN POSSESSION: Marietta police, Washington County sheriff's deputies and the Major Crimes Task Force on Wednesday arrested a Marietta woman who reportedly had 60 balloons of heroin concealed in a body cavity.

The agency overseeing Ohio's state troopers said it will relax a new policy that warned employees they could face discipline, including being fired, for releasing unauthorized information.

Gov. Ted Strickland looks politically vulnerable in a new Quinnipiac University poll released on Friday, July 3. Gov.

I am a board member of the Toledo Lucas County Library Legacy Foundation and am writing to oppose Gov.

Share + Jul 2, 2009 5:34 pm US/Eastern ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS, Associated Press Writer COLUMBUS, Ohio An across-the-board drop in tax collections, coupled with a prolonged recession, has states facing their worst fiscal crisis in decades.

A woman and her ex-boyfriend are in critical conditions and separate hospitals and her husband is in jail after a Tuesday night stabbing in the Little Hocking area.

WASHINGTON - Ohio would be among states that would benefit the most from the administration's plan to encourage high-speed rail networks across the country, President Barack Obama said Wednesday.

The Ohio House moved another interim measure Wednesday that would enable lawmakers and Gov.

The Ohio biennial budget is still in the works and "anything can happen during these final days of discussion," said Jane Taylor, state director of AARP Ohio, one of a number of statewide associations that make up the Ohio Aging Network Coalition.

In California, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger declared a fiscal emergency and ordered state offices closed three days a month to save money as the state sank deeper into dysfunction.

Today, July 1, is the first day of Ohio's new fiscal year, but Lisa Hamler-Fugitt isn't popping any corks to celebrate.

* The company received a $300,000 federal grant issued through the Ohio Department of Development and a $36,750 loan from the Ottawa County Improvement Corp.

Like many Ohioans, state government now is living paycheck to paycheck. For how long is anybody's guess.