By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A frustrated Ohio Supreme Court rejected Republican-drawn Statehouse maps for a fifth time Wednesday, extending the string of GOP defeats in …
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Infrastructure plan: $33M to clean up hundreds of oil wells
By JANET McCONNAUGHEY Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — About $33 million of the $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure plan recently signed into law by President Joe Biden will go toward cleanning u…
High court weighs end of $300 weekly unemployment payment
By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — In June 2021, Gov. Mike DeWine ended Ohio’s participation in a federal pandemic unemployment aid program ahead of a government dead…
Texas massacre casts shadow over hearing for ATF pick
By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press Less than a day after a gunman massacred 19 children and two teachers at an elementary school in Texas, a Wednesday Senate hearing for President Joe Biden’s pick…
Proposed constitutional amendment on bail advances in Ohio
By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Judges in Ohio would be required to consider criminal suspects’ threat to public safety when setting bail amounts under a proposed …
Ohio GOP wants noncitizen voting ban on November ballot
By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Republican state lawmakers in Ohio have fast-tracked a fall ballot measure that would expressly prohibit noncitizens from voting in local ele…
Ohioans got short shrift as political map fight dragged on
By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Accusations have flown for months over who’s to blame for Ohio’s protracted redistricting predicament — a mess of a political map…
Kentucky, Ohio request nearly $2B for bridge improvements
COVINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Ohio and Kentucky have asked the federal government to spend $2 billion from the bipartisan infrastructure deal to build a new Ohio River bridge and to fix an existing outdated s…
Montana bars birth certificate changes, even with surgery
MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Montana health officials say transgender people can’t change their birth certificates even if they undergo gender-confirmation surgery, in d…
Feds: Ohio man plotted trip to Texas to kill George W. Bush
By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — An Iraqi man who came to the United States two years ago and applied for asylum hatched a plot to assassinate former President George W. …