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The Public Utility Commission of Ohio voted Wednesday to pause four state investigations tied to the First Energy bribery scandal.

The former Republican legislative leader accused of helping orchestrate a $60 million bribery scheme has asked a judge to dismiss a conspiracy charge against him.

While attorneys are getting ready for the big nuclear bailout bribery case in federal court, provisions of the law at the center of the scandal dealing with coal plant subsides remain in place.

The Statehouse News Bureau takes a look back at 2021 and the fallout of what’s been called the largest corruption scandal in Ohio history.

One of Ohio's largest utility companies is attempting to leave its past in the rearview mirror, but accountability concerns still linger as FirstEnergy looks at its plans for the future.

In a consolidated case, the Ohio attorney general’s office wants to move ahead on its civil racketeering case against FirstEnergy, Energy Harbor and others.

Lt. Gov. Jon Husted has been named in court filings related to a lawsuit against former FirstEnergy executives. Husted said he has no idea why he has been named as someone who would have discoverable information, and that so far no one has contacted him.

Roadblocks at the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio, in Gov. Mike DeWine’s office and elsewhere could make it harder to prevent future corruption.

In this week's episode of Snollygoster, Ohio's politics podcast from WOSU, hosts Mike Thompson and Steve Brown discuss former Health Department director Amy Acton's decision not to run for Rob Portman's Senate seat. Democratic strategist Antoinette Wilson joins the show.

Last week, Gov. Mike DeWine signed a law ending the $1 billion in charges that Ohio electric ratepayers would have paid to prop up the state’s two nuclear power plants. This new law effectively takes the nuclear bailout out of the energy law known as House Bill 6, which passed in 2019.