COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Backers of a proposal to change Ohio's troubled political mapmaking system will finally be able to start gathering signatures, after clearing a second round of state approvals Monday.
Citizens Not Politicians now has until July 3 to collect roughly 414,000 signatures ...
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) —
The office of Ohio's Republican attorney general said Monday it has appointed an outside law firm to investigate a Democratic state representative amid claims the lawmaker engaged in a pattern of erratic and abusive behavior toward other legislators, staff and ...
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Gov. Josh Shapiro's administration said Tuesday that it is appealing a court ruling that blocked a state regulation to make Pennsylvania's power plant owners pay for their planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions, even as the Democrat warned lawmakers to get to work on a ...
Mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania without accurate handwritten dates on their exterior envelopes must still be counted if they are received in time, a judge ruled Tuesday, concluding that rejecting such ballots violates federal civil rights law.
The decision has implications for the 2024 ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Three debates for next year's presidential general election are set to be held in college towns in Texas, Virginia and Utah between Sept. 16 and Oct. 9 — though it remains to be seen whether either party's candidate will actually participate.
The nonpartisan Commission on ...
BIGFORK, Mont. (AP) — After 17 years in the U.S. Senate, Democrat Jon Tester is a well-known commodity in Montana — a plain-spoken grain farmer with a flattop and a carefully cultivated reputation as a moderate.
The 67-year-old lawmaker smiled and laughed his way through the crowd at a ...
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The statewide battles over abortion rights since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a constitutional right to abortion have exposed another fault line: the commitment to democracy.
As voters in state after state affirm their support for abortion rights, opponents are ...
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A witness in federal court reportedly testified this week that he oversaw thousands of dollars in improvements at the Philadelphia home of a Pennsylvania Supreme Court justice, work he said was initially paid for by the labor union that the justice's brother led at the ...
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Some state parks can be fracked in Ohio, a decision made by a government commission Wednesday despite an ongoing investigation into claims of possible fraudulent support by an industry group that represents energy companies.
During a raucous meeting attended by many ...
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Republicans battling to be their party's alternative to former President Donald Trump came together Friday for a different kind of cattle call, bringing personal and at times emotional stories to what an influential Iowa Christian organization billed as a friendly ...
The federal government is delaying a new rule that could make it easier for millions of workers to unionize after business groups challenged it in court.
The National Labor Relations Board said Thursday that the rule — which was scheduled to go into effect in December — will now be ...
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The agency in charge of managing health insurance for more than 200,000 government workers in West Virginia is facing pushback over proposed premium increases, five years after public school employees went on strike over rising health care costs.
The state Public ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Workers at more than 200 U.S. Starbucks locations walked off the job Thursday in what organizers said was the largest strike yet in the 2-year-old effort to unionize the company's stores.
The Workers United union chose Starbucks' annual Red Cup Day to stage the walkout since ...
Minnesota (5-5, 3-4 Big Ten) at No. 3 Ohio State (10-0, 7-0, CFP No. 2), Saturday, 4 p.m. ET (BTN)
Line: Ohio State by 27 1/2, according to FanDuel Sportsbook.
Series record: Ohio State leads 46-7.
WHAT'S AT STAKE?
The Buckeyes need to take care of business against a lesser opponent one ...
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The Ohio State defense is sharper now because of the fretting, planning, tinkering and honing of coordinator Jim Knowles after the Buckeyes were repeatedly ripped by big plays in the demoralizing loss to Michigan last year.
One of the measures of a defense is how many ...
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Some state parks can be fracked in Ohio, a decision made by a government commission Wednesday despite an ongoing investigation into claims of possible fraudulent support by an industry group that represents energy companies.
During a raucous meeting attended by many ...
AKRON, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio man accused of abducting and beating a woman while she was confined for four days in a residential garage last month pleaded not guilty during a court hearing Thursday.
William Mozingo, 33, was arraigned on charges of kidnapping, felonious assault, abduction and ...
An Ohio man who repeatedly attacked police officers as he joined a mob of Donald Trump supporters in storming the U.S. Capitol was sentenced on Thursday to nearly five years in prison.
Kenneth Joseph Owen Thomas has acted as a "one-man misinformation machine" since the Jan. 6, 2021, riot, ...
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin, days removed from announcing he won't seek reelection, said Wednesday that if the nation's voters give former President Donald Trump another term in the White House, "he will destroy democracy in America."
Manchin, whose home state ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Terry R. Taylor, who in two trailblazing decades as the first female sports editor of The Associated Press transformed the news agency's emphasis into multilayered coverage of rigorous reporting, entertaining enterprise and edgy analysis, has died. She was 71.
Taylor died ...