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Lawmakers are considering a proposal that would allow teachers and school workers to carry guns in schools if they have the eight hours of training that comes with earning a concealed carry license.

Gov. Mike DeWine is calling on state lawmakers to take on the task of finally finishing a reform of Ohio's unemployment compensation system that has needed to be fixed for many years.

The future of Ohio’s Down Syndrome abortion law was made clearer earlier this week when a sharply divided U.S. District Appeals Court ruled 9 to 7 that...

Republicans in the Ohio House have added a tax cut and changes to school funding to Gov. Mike DeWine’s two year budget. And they’ve made some other...

Another Republican has thrown his hat in the ring for the already crowded U.S. Senate primary in 2022.

Many K-12 students are back in classrooms this spring but when school is out for the summer, they won’t have a place to get the free or reduced meals provided by schools. With the pandemic, the normal summer food service program will also be a little different this year.

A coalition of bowling alleys, bars and other businesses that sell lottery games and mayors is pushing back and rejecting any plan to allow Ohio’s four casinos to control sports gambling in the state. This comes as a proposal on sports gambling is set to come out of the Ohio Senate soon.

Gov. Mike DeWine has said he’ll lift the statewide mask mandate when Ohio gets down to 50 cases per 100,000 people over a two-week period. But that rate has been trending upward in recent days, putting the state further away from that goal.

The State Highway Patrol says a man broke into the Ohio Statehouse early Monday morning, used a fire extinguisher to spray chemicals on the historic building’s Rotunda floor, and then called 911 seeking medical help.

Ohio is seeing what leaders are calling a "significant" increase in COVID-19 cases and to counter the spike, the state is searching for more options on where to go to get vaccinated.