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Ohio Senate President Larry Obhof, R-Medina, is quarantining out of precaution after fellow Republican Sen. Bob Peterson tested positive for COVID-19.”I had a brief, outdoor interaction with Senator (Bob) Peterson last week. I will be working from home this week out of an abundance of caution,” Obhof told The Dispatch. “The Senate is following its…

Republican Attorney General Dave Yost reiterated his support Monday for the licensing of police officers to ensure that the few bent on wrongdoing or otherwise not competent for law enforcement duties can be removed from the job.”There has to be some way, other than committing and being convicted of a felony, for people who shouldn’t…

No new auto plant has opened in Ohio during Donald Trump’s presidency, although electric trucks are scheduled to roll off the line soon at GM’s former Lordstown plant. Top Featured Tags: – Ohio News Press Release Distribution Service

I suspect that high-ranking government types cannot decide on a bathroom break unless a well-paid consultant first confirms for them that it is potty time.If the developers run Columbus, consultants must be in a close second. Should “Columbus” fall under sustained fire for a name change, given the increasingly sullied reputation of our historically infamous…

Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is committing at least $100 million to help Joe Biden’s presidential campaign in the crucial battleground state of Florida.Bloomberg’s late-stage infusion of cash reflects Democrats’ concerns about the tight race in a state that is a priority for President Donald Trump. A victory for Biden in Florida, the…

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — Coronavirus infections in the Dakotas are growing faster than anywhere else in the nation, fueling impassioned debates over masks and personal freedom after months in which the two states avoided the worst of the pandemic.The argument over masks raged this week in Brookings, South Dakota, as the city council considered requiring…

Residents had been mystified and irked by the closure, attributed to air-conditioning issues. Top Featured Tags: – Ohio News Press Release Distribution Service

Dan Volkema, a Columbus lawyer with Volkema Thomas and one of the representatives of the Reitters’ estate, said the family hopes to make Navien aware of the hazards of the units and to better safeguard who is selling and buying the products. Top Featured Tags: – Ohio News Press Release Distribution Service

SHANKSVILLE, Pa. — One spent time quietly consoling families.The other proclaimed America’s might.President Donald Trump and his Democratic rival, Joe Biden marked the 19th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks on Friday at memorial services where their differences in style couldn’t have been more sharply on display.Trump and Biden were both traveling to rural Shanksville,…

About three weeks ago, the University of Mississippi started its fall semester, bringing students from around the country back to Lafayette County. The university had hoped its mix of in-person and online classes and mask-wearing guidelines, among other measures, would be enough to prevent an outbreak.On paper, the college appears to be doing well. According to recent numbers, the…

More than two months into the fiscal year, state officials have yet to take any significant steps to resolve a projected $2 billion shortfall in the COVID-19-wracked state budget.The gap for the budget year that began July 1 has thus far been met with tinkering around the edges that falls far short of aligning budgeted…

WASHINGTON — Try as he might to change the subject, President Donald Trump can’t escape the coronavirus.In April, the president tried to shift the public’s focus to the economy. In July, to defending the country’s “heritage.” In September, to enforcing “law and order.” But all along the way, the death toll from the coronavirus continued…

Mayor Andrew J. Ginther said the grant, awarded by the Office of Population Affairs at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, will reduce the disparity in health equality and better service residents across Franklin County. Top Featured Tags: – Ohio News Press Release Distribution Service

His victims were neighbors who knew him well enough to let him into their homes.Troy L. Hairston “was someone they thought they could trust,” Franklin County Assistant Prosecutor Kara Keating said Thursday at Hairston’s sentencing hearing in Common Pleas Court.Hairston took advantage of that trust by raping two women in their South Side homes —…

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump told journalist Bob Woodward that he knew the coronavirus was more deadly and contagious than the flu while he continued to downplay its dangers to the public, according to Woodward’s new book “Rage.””I wanted to always play it down. I still like playing it down, because I don’t want to…

A vaccine candidate being studied by AstraZeneca is now on hold after a clinical trial participant in the United Kingdom fell ill. Ohio State was helping to conduct a U.S. trial. Top Featured Tags: – Ohio News Press Release Distribution Service

Donald Trump Jr. said Democrats would have to “play a lot of games” to take down President Donald Trump and elect former Vice President Joe Biden.In a speech to a mostly unmasked crowd of about 300 people at the University of Northwestern Ohio event center in Lima on Wednesday, the president’s son drew friendly laughs…

An age discrimination lawsuit filed late last week alleges a 53-year-old former Ohio State employee within the College of Education and Human Ecology was fired and replaced by a younger, less-experienced candidate. The lawsuit follows other age-discrimination cases filed by employees within the same college in recent years. Top Featured Tags: – Ohio News Press…

The National Weather Service will be visiting central Ohio today looking for evidence of a tornado touchdown.Sirens sounded just after 5 p.m. Monday in several counties, including Delaware, Franklin, Knox, Licking and Union, as a storm front plowed into the area from the northwest, bringing wind gusts of more than 60 mph, hail and several…

For four years, a woman raped as a teenager by her pastor has been trying to convince Ohio’s Republican-controlled legislature to repeal the limit on damages sexual assault victims can seek in lawsuits.”No amount of money will ever take away what happened or make it better,” Jessica Simpkins said. But, the current cap of $350,000…

Columbus police and homicide detectives were called to an auto body shop in North Linden where a body was found on Monday morning.Later, police confirmed that the body marks the city’s 100th homicide this year.A call came in at 9:27 a.m. that a man had found a female body in an alley in the 1600…

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