Both the anti-fraud task force that Vance leads for President Donald Trump and U.S. House Republicans have taken aim at the state. Ramaswamy announced his own plan to combat Medicaid fraud on Tuesday.
The bitter divorce between an Ohio congressman and his former wife, the daughter of one of the state’s U.S. senators, has escalated into new legal action.
Reps. Melanie Miller (R-Ashland, left) and Michele Grim (D-Toledo, right) introduced a new house bill aimed at helping abuse survivors leave harmful homes.
The levy placed before voters seeks to fund radio towers, emergency radios, phone systems, servers, and computer-aided dispatch software, but not staffing.
Merrin was up against four others in the primary, including State Rep. Josh Williams, former ICE deputy director Madison Sheahan, Air Force Veteran Alea Nadeem and data scientist executive Anthony Campbell.
In what promises to be one of November’s marquee matchups, former Sen. Sherrod Brown easily defeated a challenger in the Democratic primary and will now attempt to unseat Republican Sen. Jon Husted.
Ramaswamy has spent his campaign for Ohio governor focused on November’s general election and finally gets the chance to put the long primary season behind him, as the Trump-endorsed entrepreneur positions for an expensive run against Dr. Amy Acton, the former state health director.
Candidates for Ohio’s top elected offices will stand before voters in a statewide primary on Tuesday, although many of them are already looking ahead to the November general election.
Acton’s COVID-19 health orders in 2020 are back in focus, and Ramaswamy is also being pressed over his COVID-era advising in Ohio, past support for vaccines and masks, and his earlier backing of a national COVID registry.
As he seeks to retain his U.S. Senate seat this fall, Ohio Republican Jon Husted has been unable to escape the shadow of a $60 million bribery scandal that has roiled state politics for more than five years.
The Ohio House unanimously passed a bill to create a commission to study the impacts of data centers on communities and find best practices for local decision makers.
Voters in 14 states who cast their votes by mail will be given a grace period ranging from a day later to several weeks in which their ballots can be received and counted.
Former CEO Chuck Jones and ex-senior vice president Michael Dowling face charges of corruption, bribery, conspiracy and aggravated theft for paying $4.3 million to the state’s future top utility regulator.
Husted testified that he was present at a 2018 dinner with Ohio’s then-Gov.-elect Mike DeWine and two former FirstEnergy Corp. executives who are accused of bribing a top utility regulator, whom DeWine appointed shortly thereafter.
Ohio House Democrats will file eight immigration bills to ban Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations in schools and churches, require agents to identify themselves and improve conditions in detention centers.
Justin Salsburey, 43, of Bellefontaine, and his wife, Ruthann Rankin, were each charged late last month with conspiracy and possession with the intent to distribute large amounts of narcotics through the U.S. mail.
A new law signed this week by Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer will expand the power of the Legislature’s sergeants-at-arms to investigate threats and alleged crimes outside the Capitol at the direction of elected officials.
Former Democratic U.S. Rep. Tim Ryan said Friday that he has decided not to run for Ohio governor next year, eliminating the most significant hurdle to the nomination for former state health director Dr. Amy Acton.
Will we see history made or a major upset in Toledo’s mayoral race Tuesday? No mayor has ever served three consecutive terms and two people are trying to prevent that from happening now.
Republican U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan was among those questioned under oath this month about the sexual abuse of Ohio State University athletes decades ago by a team doctor.
