Tag: Ohio news

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Republican state lawmakers moving to ask Ohio voters this August to raise the threshold for passing future constitutional amendments — with the idea of thwarting a November abortion rights question — pressed forward Tuesday, even as former attorneys general of both parties joined a growing chorus in opposing their plan.

TOLEDO – Toledo Metropolitan Area Council of Governments is hiring Sandy Spang to serve as the organization’s next president.

Lordstown Motors warned Monday that it is in danger of failing as the electronics company Foxconn wavers on a $170 million investment in the commercial electric vehicle startup.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Part of a house collapsed and 14 people were injured near The Ohio State University Saturday evening when people climbed onto a roof that was not designed to hold significant weight, authorities said.

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CINCINNATI (AP) — Jerry Springer, the onetime mayor and news anchor whose namesake TV show featured a three-ring circus of dysfunctional families willing to bare all on weekday afternoons including brawls, obscenities and blurred images of nudity, died Thursday at 79.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The Ohio House approved an $88 billion state budget Wednesday with bipartisan support, sending it to the Senate after a tense session where some lawmakers in the House’s fractured Republican supermajority were blocked from trying to add a universal school voucher proposal and other changes.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A Trump-backed Republican in Ohio whose military record was called into question during his unsuccessful 2022 congressional campaign announced Wednesday that he plans to run again next year.

COLUMBUS, Ohio – The Ohio Narcotics Intelligence Center and the Ohio Department of Aging are warning Ohioans of a growing trend of cryptocurrency scams targeting older adults. During the course of drug-related investigations, the ONIC became aware of these types of financial exploitations against older adults and worked in conjunction with ODA to bring awareness by issuing a public bulletin today to encourage older Ohioans, family members, and caregivers to be on alert.

By J.D. Davidson