COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Testing shows that potentially harmful chemicals known as PFAS aren’t widely contaminating the more than 1,500 public drinking water systems in Ohio, the Ohio Environmental Prote…
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Ohio governor signs bill requiring burial of fetal remains
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Fetal remains from surgical abortions in Ohio must be cremated or buried under a bill signed Wednesday by Republican Gov. Mike DeWine. The bill updates a current state law requir…
Ohio to receive smaller 2nd week coronavirus vaccine supply
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio’s supply of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine will be less in the second full week of delivery than initial estimates, the Department of Health said Friday. Previous esti…
Lawmakers push abortion restrictions, gun rights expansion
By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Republican lawmakers have sent bills to Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine that would increase abortion restrictions, expand gun rights and ban the ex…
Ohio unemployment claims rise again as pandemic impact felt
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Both initial and continuing claims for unemployment compensation rose in Ohio last week, another sign of the economy’s continued weakness during the coronavirus pandemic. T…
Prosecutor releases security video of Ohio judge being shot
By The Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Surveillance video showing an Ohio judge being shot and wounded at a courthouse before the assailant was himself shot and killed has been released by a co…
Ohio State tallies hundreds more instances of abuse by doc
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio State University has tallied hundreds more instances of alleged decades-old sexual misconduct by now-deceased team doctor Richard Strauss, bringing the total to more than 2,…
Another casualty of 2020: The magic of the snow day
By CAROLYN THOMPSON Associated Press BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Even before the first flakes fell, New York City’s first big snowfall of the season was doomed to be a gloomy disappointment for more than a m…
Family behind OxyContin attests to its role in opioid crisis
By GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press Two owners of the company that makes OxyContin acknowledged to Congress on Thursday that the powerful prescription painkiller played a role in the opioid epidemic b…
GOP advance bill to halt collection of nuclear bailout money
By FARNOUSH AMIRI Report for America/The Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A bill that would delay the collection of nuclear subsidies under the law at the center of a $60 million federal bribery…