COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Both initial and continuing claims for unemployment compensation rose last week, another sign of the economy’s continued weakness during the coronavirus pandemic, the state…
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Senate report: Opioid industry has paid advocacy groups $65M
By GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press A bipartisan congressional investigation released Wednesday found that key players in the nation’s opioid industry have spent $65 million since 1997 funding nonprof…
Officials approve $2.5M for body cameras after Ohio shooting
By FARNOUSH AMIRI and ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS Report for America/Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Officials approved $2.5 million in funding Wednesday to allow the Franklin County Sheriff’s O…
Court: Ohio must allow gender changes on birth certificates
By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio can’t keep refusing to allow people to change the gender listings on their birth certificates, a federal court ruled Wednesday. In respo…
DeWine warns that vaccine doesn’t mean quick end
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine warned Tuesday that the long-awaited arrival of a COVID-19 vaccine doesn’t mean the state’s coronavirus troubles are over. Ohioans must continue…
Cavaliers hoping to ‘overachieve’ after long 2020 lay-off
By TOM WITHERS AP Sports Writer CLEVELAND (AP) — The NBA’s interrupted season and invitation-only gathering in Florida to finish it due to the pandemic hurt every team to varying degrees. It dev…
‘Moment of hope’: Ohio begins to vaccinate frontline workers
By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS and FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press/Report for America COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The first vaccines against the coronavirus arrived in Ohio Monday morning as a national rollout got…
5 years and counting: Ex-treasure hunter still stuck in jail
By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A former deep-sea treasure hunter is about to mark his fifth year in jail for refusing to disclose the whereabouts of 500 missing coins m…
Biden’s challenge: Building Cabinet that meets all his goals
By WILL WEISSERT and LISA MASCARO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Shortly after President-elect Joe Biden’s victory last month, Cabinet hopeful Marcia Fudge pointedly noted that Black people are of…
U.S. marshal calls his post-shooting remarks ‘premature’
By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS and FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press/Report for America COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A U.S. marshal said Friday that his description of the fatal shooting of a Black man by a white she…