Ohioans received $182.5 million from the state’s unclaimed funds during 2026 fiscal year
Payouts nearly tripled after DeWine tapped $1 billion in unclaimed funds for stadiums, with 14 facilities still competing for a remaining $400 million.
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Ramaswamy under fire for taking over $10K from operative jailed in case involving 15-year-old
Havas resigned as Husted's Franklin County chair over the same 2009 case, and it's the third donor or endorser tied to misconduct in Ramaswamy's campaign.
Book bans, censorship, and funding fears challenge Ohio public school librarians
A statewide survey found 56% of responding Ohio librarians faced censorship attempts since 2021, as lawmakers weigh new bills over library materials.
‘The precipice of an emergency.’ Marietta residents worry drinking water could become contaminated.
ODNR has confirmed brine waste migration from seven Washington County injection wells since 2019, prompting four owners to voluntarily halt operations this July.
Vivek Ramaswamy’s ‘meritocracy’ campaign takes $10K from dad jailed for rigging daughter’s ACT
Hauser served two months in prison for paying $40,000 to fix his daughter's ACT score, one of dozens caught in the Varsity Blues admissions scandal.
Seneca County sheriff releases bodycam video of fatal deputy shooting of Jeffrey Sergent
The state's investigation remains open and the deputies unnamed, while the sheriff's legal citation on vehicles as deadly weapons misstates the Ohio statute it quotes.
3 hurt inside Gibsonburg home before dawn — juvenile in custody, BCI called to process the scene
Police withheld names and the cause of the injuries, citing family privacy, while five agencies including the county prosecutor assisted at the scene.
Seneca County cyclosporiasis cases climb to 5 as health officials search for the source
Ohio has logged 177 cases statewide with 28 hospitalizations, and nearby Lucas and Wood counties report far higher totals than Seneca as investigators hunt for a common source.
UAW endorses Aaron Jones — a factory supervisor challenging Gary Click for Ohio House District 88
Click survived his May primary by fewer than 600 votes and lost Seneca County, where Jones lives, as Jones piles up labor and veterans endorsements.
Ohio progressive group turns FBI raid into voter mobilization pitch
Allies of the Ohio Organizing Collaborative are launching a social media ad campaign portraying the FBI investigation as an attempt at voter suppression that they say will backfire on Republicans this fall.
Former Ohio Supreme Court justices join tour for independent, nonpartisan judiciary
Former Chief Justice Maureen O'Connor and colleagues warned that partisan judicial races and a president above the law threaten courts ahead of November's midterms.
We asked Ohio’s death row what they think of governor’s death penalty reversal
Sixteen condemned Ohio prisoners told The Marshall Project the death penalty never deterred them, while questioning why DeWine has commuted only one sentence.
Ohio voters buried SB 5. The anti-union operatives who fought to save it now run Ramaswamy’s campaign
Seneca County rejected SB 5 by 25 points in 2011, and the unions it targeted have mostly endorsed Ramaswamy's Democratic opponent, Amy Acton, this year.
140 guns, meth, $81K seized in Wyandot County raid
The raid began as a U.S. Marshals search for a Huron County fugitive before deputies found a second man barred from having firearms with the drugs and cash.
Gary Click pushes ‘child protection’ bill with lawmaker investigated over child sex abuse allegations
Seneca County Democrats want Click to explain his silence on Creech, whose committee posts were stripped and restored after the abuse allegation surfaced.
Jon Husted campaign chair quits after guilty plea in case involving 15-year-old
Havas served 90 days in jail after his 2009 case was reduced from sexual misconduct with a minor to misdemeanor assault, records show.
New Scoops & Slices Trail links 27 food stops, 30 geocaches across Seneca County
Free digital passes launch Saturday with two prizes at stake: a hat for five business visits or a geocoin for finding 25 of 30 hidden caches.
Moreno moves to restrict birthright citizenship — the same right that made Ramaswamy a citizen
The bill's own wording would exempt Ramaswamy, whose campaign says his parents held green cards, while narrowing citizenship for others he's echoed.
Feds, Ohio Republicans focus on individual cases of Medicaid fraud, but what about corporations?
Ohio already collected $88 million from Centene and $100 million from drug middlemen, but those cases went unmentioned at the June fraud press conference.
In Ohio, solar is no big threat to farmland
Golf courses use nearly triple the farmland solar does statewide, and suburban sprawl five times more, according to a new SEIA land-use map.
