COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The number of Ohio coronavirus cases has continued to spike despite pleas from the governor for people to help slow the spread. The 7-day rolling average of daily new cases in Oh…
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3 killed, 2 wounded in Toledo apartment building shooting
TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — A shooting at an apartment building in Toledo left three people dead and two others wounded, authorities said. Police were searching for a 24-year-old man who was believed to be th…
Ohio governor appoints new health director as virus rages
By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine on Thursday appointed a new Health Department director and brought on a chief medical officer for the agency as the…
EXPLAINER: Why the AP is not calling Householder race
By FARNOUSH AMIRI Report for America/Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The alleged bribery scheme that federal prosecutors described as the largest in Ohio history seems to have had little impact…
In 2020 finale, Trump combative, Biden on offense
By JONATHAN LEMIRE, ZEKE MILLER, WILL WEISSERT and ALEXANDRA JAFFE Associated Press PITTSBURGH (AP) — Closing out a campaign shadowed by a once-in-a-century pandemic, President Donald Trump charged ac…
Top Ohio official tweets inaccurate mail-in voting deadline
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio’s attorney general tweeted erroneously Monday that voters had until Tuesday to mail their absentee ballots, when Monday was actually the last day to vote by mail. Republican…
Centennial of Harding’s election quieter due to pandemic
By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The centennial of President Warren G. Harding’s election was marked Monday in his home county in Ohio with a modest radio tribute rathe…
On pandemic ‘learning loss,’ schools look forward, not back
By PATRICK WALL of Chalkbeat and KANTELE FRANKO of The Associated Press Chalkbeat and Associated Press NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — A complete picture has yet to emerge of how much learning was lost by student…
Court-ordered robocalls sent to ‘electoral terror’ victims
By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Nearly 30,000 recipients of what a judge described as “electoral terror” robocalls designed to scare people from voting in four states including Oh…
Ohio utility at center of $60 million bribery case fires CEO
By JOHN SEEWER Associated Press TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — A power company under investigation for its role in an alleged $60 million bribery scheme involving one of Ohio’s most powerful politicians fired it…