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Wright State president to retire after 2 years in office
Oregon District shooting, guns topic of Democratic debate in Ohio
Got a message for your fellow Ohio drivers? ODOT wants to hear it
Referendum campaign challenges Ohio law, wants more time for petitions
Ohio may eliminate sales taxes on tampons, pads
Portman: Congress may be able to pass bill protecting gays in the workplace
Portman: Trump ‘wrong,’ but impeachment battle harmful
NEW DETAILS: Gov. DeWine outlines plan to tackle gun violence
Gov. Mike DeWine to unveil details of his gun control plan today
Ohio AG investigates new allegations in fight over energy bill referendum
Ohio lawmakers vote to increase suicide prevention training in schools
Ohio House votes to allow delivery of boozy ice cream
Ohio lawmakers vote to set up a cyber reserve to fight, prevent attacks
Guns used in 75% of domestic violence deaths in Ohio, report says
Gov. DeWine wants ban on flavored e-cigarette products
In wake of Dayton shooting, lawmakers want to keep juvenile records longer
Do red flag laws work? Here’s what we found in Indiana
DeWine wants more state psych beds open for violent patients
Former speaker stepping down from Ohio House
Whaley to Congress regarding mass shooting: ‘Our whole city is hurting’
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Wright State president Cheryl Schrader announced Tuesday she will retire from the position at the end of the year after serving two and half years at the university. Schrader— who was hired in 2017 on a five-year contract — said she would step down as president Dec. 31, ending a two-year run in which she was forced to navigate...
With Daytonians in the audience of the Democratic presidential debate, candidates advocated for assault weapons bans and buybacks, universal background checks and other measures to reduce the gun violence that has claimed more than 16,000 Ohioans since 2007. “The public is with us on this in a big way. The majority of Trump voters want...
“It’s Not A Race Leave Some Space” and “Camp in the Ohio State Parks Not the Left Lane” are among the cheeky signs reminding thousands of drivers to be safe and courteous on Ohio highways. Since 2015, the Ohio Department of Transportation has had an online ‘suggestion box’ for messages to be...
The multi-million dollar fight over a new law that adds charges to all Ohioans electric bills to provide subsidies to owners of four electric power plants moved to a federal courtroom on Friday. The federal court fight is over an effort to put House Bill 6, a law that was passed earlier this year, up for a statewide referendum vote. Opponents...
The so-called “Pink Tax” on tampons and feminine hygiene products will be eliminated in Ohio, if a bill passed on Thursday gains final approval. The Ohio House voted unanimously in favor of a bill that makes a slew of tax changes, including eliminating sales taxes on tampons and sanitary pads. The bill still needs final approval...
As the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments on whether existing law shields LGBT individuals from discrimination, U.S. Sen. Rob Portman said lawmakers may be able to pass a federal bill that calls for protecting gay Americans from discrimination in the workplace. The Cincinnati Republican voted in favor of the Employment Non-Discrimination...
U.S. Sen. Rob Portman says the impeachment fight is making it harder to work on bipartisan legislation. In a Dayton Daily News interview, Portman expressed frustration that impeachment was “taking a lot of the oxygen out of the room” on issues with bipartisan support, such as expanding gun purchase background checks or a national...
Gov. Mike DeWine is not calling for a “red flag law” or universal gun purchase background checks, but instead wants to improve existing systems to address gun violence that has killed more than 16,000 people in Ohio since 2007. At a press conference Monday, the Republican governor called for a system to let people voluntarily...
Two months after a deadly mass shooting in Dayton’s Oregon District, Gov. Mike DeWine today, Monday Oct. 7, will detail his legislative plans to curb gun violence and make a pitch to state lawmakers that his proposals will be effective and constitutional. Dayton Mayor Nan Whaley, Youngstown Mayor Jamael Tito Brown, Lt. Gov. Jon Husted...
Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost is investigating new allegations that people circulating petitions for a statewide referendum on a controversial energy bill are being offered cash to quit the campaign and to sell signed petitions to the opposing side. It’s the latest chapter in a costly, contentious fight over House Bill 6, which was...
The Ohio House of Representatives voted 85-7 on Wednesday in favor of a bill to address youth suicides and school safety with new mandates for training, instruction and planning. School districts would be required to establish a threat-assessment team and contract with an anonymous reporting system that operates 24/7 to receive safety tips...
State lawmakers voted 76-16 on a bill to legalize the ultimate convenience: home delivery of booze-infused ice cream. Under House Bill 160, makers of alcoholic ice cream would be allowed to ship the boozy treats to consumers via delivery companies such as UPS or FedEx and ship the product to retail liquor permit holders to resale to customers...
Civilian volunteers who are experts in computers and information technology would be part of a new ‘cyber reserve’ to fight and prevent hacks against government systems, under a bill that passed the Ohio House on Wednesday. Lawmakers voted 90-0 in favor of Senate Bill 52, which would create the Ohio Cyber Reserve under the command...
Eighty-one Ohioans died at the hands of domestic abusers in the last year and 75% of those cases involved a firearm, according to the Ohio Domestic Violence Network’s annual list of fatalities. The data is for the 12 months that ended June 30. While the overall number is lower than the 91 fatalities reported the prior year, there are...
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine is calling on public colleges and universities to ban tobacco and vaping on campuses, and is asking state legislators to outlaw the sale of flavored liquid nicotine used in vaping products. Unlike governors in New York and Michigan, DeWine determined he doesn’t have the legal authority to ban flavored liquid nicotine...
Juvenile records couldn’t be expunged until the offenders reach 28 years old, up from the current 23, under a bill being sponsored by state Rep. Phil Plummer, a former Montgomery County Sheriff. Plummer, R-Butler Twp., said he wants the records to be available to law enforcement for a longer window because often the profile of mass...
As Ohio lawmakers debate a “red flag” law to reduce gun violence in the wake of the deadly Oregon District mass shooting, they can look to neighboring Indiana to see how such extreme protection orders have operated in a Midwestern state for more than a decade. Data on red flag weapon seizures is spread out among courts in Indiana&rsquo...
Gov. Mike DeWine’s 17-point plan to address gun violence includes changing how and why people are placed in state psychiatric hospitals — so that more beds are available to people who could be threatening violence or suicide. On any given day, about 97 percent of the state’s 1,065 beds in its six psychiatric hospitals are...
Republican Ryan Smith said Thursday that he is resigning his seat in the Ohio House to be president of the University of Rio Grande and Rio Grande Community College. Smith served as House speaker from June to December 2018 and tried to hang onto the powerful post in January but lost to his GOP rival Larry Householder. Smith said he is looking...
In her first testimony before Congress, Dayton Mayor Nan Whaley on Wednesday detailed how a 24-year-old shooter armed with an “AR-15 pistol variant” killed nine and shot 17 others. “In those 32 seconds, the shooter’s weapon did exactly what it was designed to do – kill or injure as many people as possible in...
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