Ohio

'It's Ohio's Money Now'

AP | JOHN SEEWER | Posted 05.27.2012

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TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — The opening of casinos in Ohio this spring means the luck is running out for neighboring states that have pulled in an estimated...

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Student May Wear 'Jesus Is Not A Homophobe' T-shirt, Court Rules

AP | Posted 05.22.2012

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CINCINNATI -- A gay student who sued his Ohio high school for prohibiting him from wearing a T-shirt designed to urge tolerance of gays will be allowe...

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Woman Charged With Assault For Spitting Blood On Cop

The Huffington Post | Lauren Feldman | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Spit Blood on Cop, Assaulting Police Officer, Attack on Cops, Caught on Tape, Mug Shots, Ohio, Bellevue, Tiffany Pocock, Assault Spitting Blood, Crime News

One 27-year-old from Ohio may soon learn that spitting blood on a cop wins you no friends in the criminal justice system. At 1:45 a.m. last Friday,...

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PHOTOS: Inside Ohio's Beautiful Cuyahoga Valley National Park

CarsTravelFood | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: The Great American Road Trip, Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad, Towpath Trail, Cuyahoga Valley National Park, Cleveland, Ohio, Travel News

You can take the train ride through historic sites and imagine riding back to a simpler time as you see fox, deer, beavers and owls.

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Mom Gets 9 Years In Teen With Cerebral Palsy's Malnutrition Death

AP | LISA CORNWELL | Posted 05.17.2012

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CINCINNATI — The mother of a 14-year-old girl who had cerebral palsy and weighed 28 pounds when she died last year was sentenced Thursday to nin...

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Ohio Senate Approves Horizontal Drilling Rules

AP | JULIE CARR SMYTH | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Energy, Video, Horizontal Drilling, Fracking, Horizontal Shale Drilling, Fracking Horizontal Drilling, Ohio, Ohio Fracking Rules, Ohio Fracking, Ohio Natural Gas, Ohio Horizontal Drilling Rules, Hydraulic Fracturing, Ohio Energy, Green News

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio senators approved new regulations for horizontal shale drilling on Tuesday in a bipartisan vote punctuated by a spoken re...

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Michael Symon's Cleveland

Love Letters | Posted 05.30.2012

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You could be so cruel. Let's not even go into the winters, when the "lake effect" winds would have pissed off a penguin.

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Sole Survivor Of Family Cracker Barrel Shooting Dies

AP | Posted 05.15.2012

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CLEVELAND — A 10-year-old girl who was critically injured in April in a restaurant shooting by her father that killed her sister and her mother ...

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Ohio Governor Scraps Controversial Election Law

AP | ANN SANNER | Posted 05.15.2012

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COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio's Republican governor signed legislation Tuesday to get rid of a contentious new election law that Democrats and others ha...

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After Son Drowns, Mom Teaches Swimming To Minority Kids Statistically More At-Risk

Posted 05.15.2012

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After 16-year-old Josh Butts drowned and died, his grieving mother committed to addressing an alarming statistic. Nearly 70 percent of African Ame...

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Now Hear This: Put Your Moneymoney on Honeyhoney

Michael Bialas | Posted 05.15.2012

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The smart money these days is on Honeyhoney making more of a lasting impression than their groundbreaking predecessors from L.A.

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Ridiculously Early Look at Electoral Math

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.14.2012

Since, as any fifth-grader will tell you, we don't have a national vote for president, tracking the race by means of national polling is almost completely irrelevant.

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Triple-Murderer Wanted To Save Tree Where He Hid His Victims

AP | Posted 05.11.2012

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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- Authorities say a central Ohio man who killed three people and stuffed their bodies in a hollow tree made a deal with prosecuto...

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Ohio Republicans Turn Against Their Governor on Behalf of the Oil Industry

Carl Pope | Posted 05.10.2012

Read More: Rick Santorum, John Kasich, Koch Brothers, Natural Gas, Ohio, Ohio Oil Taxes, Ohio Tea Party, Oil Taxes, Tea Party, Green News

A rock-ribbed reactionary Governor who proposes a very modest tax increase on oil and gas that would not even begin to raise Ohio taxes to those in Texas and Oklahoma is broadsided by his own party.

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Sentiments From the Swing State: An Ohioan's Appeal for a Civil Election

Stuart Muszynski | Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: Politics, Swing States, America, Values, 2012 Election, Ohio, Mitt Romney, Washington DC, Political Incivility, Barack Obama, Culture, Obama Ohio, Romney Ohio, Politics News

Every year that incivility in politics increases and is showcased and exploited by political parties and the media, average, every day Americans become more "in your face."

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Man Pleads Not Guilty To Raping Boy With Child's Adoptive Father

AP | Posted 05.08.2012

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DAYTON, Ohio -- A not guilty plea has been entered for an Ohio man accused of raping a boy who authorities say was brought to the man's home by the bo...

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Obama Unveils Sweeping Strategy For Battleground States

AP | KEN THOMAS and STEVE PEOPLES | Posted 05.08.2012

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EUCLID, Ohio — Targeting middle-class voters, President Barack Obama on Monday unveiled a sweeping $25 million, nine-state ad campaign whose cen...

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Obama Escalates 2012 Fight With Official Campaign Kickoff

AP | DAVID ESPO | Posted 05.05.2012

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COLUMBUS, Ohio — Plunging into his campaign for a new term, President Barack Obama tore into Mitt Romney on Saturday as a willing and eager "rub...

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'Disappointed' Kasich Attacks Group For Working In 'Self-Interest'

Columbus Dispatch | Posted 05.04.2012

Read More: Energy, John Kasich, Gov. John Kasich, John Kasich Renewable Energy Lobby, Ohio, Politics News

Gov. John Kasich yesterday offered his most-passionate defense of his proposal to include cogeneration as an acceptable form of renewable energy in Oh...

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Future Of Ohio's Oil And Gas Taxes Debated

AP | JULIE CARR SMYTH | Posted 05.03.2012

Read More: Energy, Ohio Governor John Kasich, Oil Gas Industry, Ohio Oil Industry, Video, Ohio, John Kasich, Ohio Oil Gas Tax, Ohio Oil Gas Industry, Ohio Oil Tax, Ohio Gas Tax, Green News

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio state officials and the oil and gas industry are painting radically different pictures as they lobby lawmakers to support...

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PHOTOS: Cleveland And Its Accordion King

Randy Fox | Posted 05.03.2012

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For those interested in seeing an integral part of Rust Belt history, Cleveland is still an essential stop.

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5 Arrested In Bomb Plot Outside Cleveland

AP | THOMAS J. SHEERAN and KANTELE FRANKO | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Cleveland Bomb Plot, Video, Mug Shots, Cleveland, Ohio, Cleveland Ohio, Anarchists, Department of Justice, Justice Department, Nato Summit, Crime News

CLEVELAND — Five men described by federal authorities as anarchists angry with corporate America and the government were charged Tuesday with pl...

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Debt Collectors Might Be Employed To Recoup City's Unpaid Water Bills

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 04.30.2012

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The city of Canton, Ohio might be giving the debt-collection industry some rather good business soon. The Canton city council will vote Monday on w...

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Kasich Plan In Legal Limbo

Associated Press | Julie Carr Smyth | Posted 04.27.2012

Read More: John Kasich, Kasich Devlopment Plan, John Kasih Development Plan, Gov. John Kasich, Ohio, Politics News

A private economic development agency created by Gov. John Kasich to move "at the speed of business" has been slowed to a near halt in obtaining its s...

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Dad Kept Daughter In Dog Cage, Threatened Electrocution

AP | Posted 04.25.2012

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CINCINNATI -- An Ohio man accused of duct-taping his 12-year-old daughter, putting her in a dog cage and threatening to electrify it has pleaded guilt...

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