Thu Jan 12, 2012 9:10 AM EST
Boos, applause and the occasional outburst marked a gathering of about 500 Ohio residents seeking explanations for a series of earthquakes that has hit their area since deep injection drilling came to town.
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Sun Jan 8, 2012 4:31 PM EST
Former Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray's contentious tumble onto the national stage has been anything but typical for the intelligent, mild-mannered public servant who occasionally pads about his office in sock feet.
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Sun Dec 11, 2011 12:02 PM EST
After a childhood spent moving around, Patti Gorcheff vowed that she'd never uproot her daughter. But she says wastewater disposal in her area from an oil and gas drilling frenzy that's hit Ohio and other states has forced her to change her mind.
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Sat Dec 10, 2011 12:00 PM EST
After nearly 40 years in public education, Patrick Godwin spends his retirement days running a horse farm east of Sacramento, Calif., with his daughter.
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Tue Dec 6, 2011 1:51 PM EST
Ohio Democrats are accusing a leading national business federation of altering a photo of U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown and misrepresenting one of his votes in TV attack ads airing statewide.
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Thu Nov 3, 2011 5:59 PM EDT
Union leaders said Wednesday their success in striking down an Ohio law curbing collective bargaining rights for public workers points to an energized labor movement that could be pivotal in helping Democrats win battleground states in next year's election.
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Thu Oct 20, 2011 9:44 PM EDT
Ohio voters can prepare for two primaries in 2012 after the governor signed a bill on Friday night to hold most national contests in June with local primaries still taking place in March.
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Sun Oct 16, 2011 1:20 PM EDT
Shuttered businesses and boarded-up houses dot the streets of historic Zanesville, the struggling river city where Cory May is starting a life with his young wife.
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Fri Sep 2, 2011 4:10 PM EDT
Firefighters are featured in the first TV spot in the campaign to overturn an Ohio law limiting the bargaining powers of public employee unions.
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Thu Sep 1, 2011 1:36 PM EDT
A lockup along the shores of Lake Erie has become the first state prison in the nation to be sold to a private company.
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Wed Aug 17, 2011 6:05 AM EDT
After spending their days serving the public, Ohio lawmakers soon might be able to head to the basement and get served at the pub.
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Fri Aug 12, 2011 9:46 AM EDT
Opponents of the federal health care overhaul championed by President Barack Obama scored a key legal victory on Friday that should clear a proposed ballot measure for a fall vote in a pivotal state.
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Sat Aug 6, 2011 2:11 PM EDT
A memo that appears to coach buyers of oil and gas drilling leases to use deceptive tactics on unsuspecting landowners has provoked a state investigation and spirited debate in rural Ohio, the latest frontier in America's quest for new energy resources.
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Fri Jul 15, 2011 4:20 PM EDT
Under assault in a phone hacking scandal, News Corp. met a self-imposed deadline Friday for reporting its latest political contributions online, revealing $115,750 in contributions mostly to Democrats.
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Mon Jul 4, 2011 2:18 PM EDT
Ohio's new Republican Gov. John Kasich is a study in contradictions.
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Wed Jun 29, 2011 2:55 PM EDT
Thousands of opponents of Ohio's new collective bargaining law marched through the streets of Columbus on Wednesday to deliver signatures aimed at getting a repeal question on the November ballot, even as Gov. John Kasich continued to defend the law.
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Sun Jun 12, 2011 4:40 PM EDT
Ohio State University President E. Gordon Gee told the institution's largest graduating class that a scandal in its celebrated football program is "but a temporary condition."
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Fri May 13, 2011 1:29 PM EDT
The directors of media conglomerate News Corp., the owner of Fox News Channel, have quietly put in place a policy to disclose corporate political donations on the company's website.
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Thu Apr 21, 2011 3:30 PM EDT
A labor-backed group seeking to capitalize on a verbal gaffe by Gov. John Kasich delivered a letter Thursday to Bob Evans Farms Inc. pushing the company to improve benefits for employees.
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Thu Apr 21, 2011 3:08 AM EDT
A citizen activist says he was wronged by the failure of a small Ohio city to give him 20 years of 911 tapes he sought, which were long ago recorded over. The city says he can prove no harm and that he didn't even want the tapes — he wanted the thousands in penalty dollars for requesting records that no longer exist.
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Tue Mar 29, 2011 1:02 PM EDT
A state House committee on Wednesday narrowly approved a bill that would impose the strictest abortion limit in the nation, outlawing the procedure at the first detectable fetal heartbeat.
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Sun Mar 13, 2011 12:08 AM EST
It was 1992 and Ohio Senate President Stanley Aronoff was on the golf course when his cell phone rang.
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Mon Mar 7, 2011 4:34 PM EST
Gov. John Kasich gave one of the longest State of the State addresses in recent memory, yet he provided few specifics as to how he's going to fill a historic $8 billion budget gap.
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Wed Mar 2, 2011 5:24 PM EST
Anti-abortion activists have recently conducted hidden-camera stings at clinics, put up a billboard declaring abortion the No. 1 threat to blacks, and on Wednesday performed ultrasounds on pregnant women in front of Ohio legislators.
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Wed Feb 23, 2011 4:49 PM EST
Republican state lawmakers in Ohio sifted through stacks of proposed changes to a bill that would dramatically reduce collective bargaining rights for state employees, as thousands of opponents geared up for demonstrations ahead of a likely vote next week.
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