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Click deletes election day attack on Vance ally Edwards
Gary Click deleted a primary-day Facebook attack on JD Vance ally Jay Edwards over Householder ties — but Click's own 2019 campaign ran a Facebook ad promoting HB 6.
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Conditions in Haiti ‘grave’ as Supreme Court weighs allowing revoked legal status and deportation
The U.S. Supreme Court is weighing the Trump administration's move to end temporary protected status for roughly 45,000 Haitians in Ohio, as a new report warns Haiti remains one of the world's worst humanitarian crises.
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Commissioner Bill Frankart acknowledged past false claims in deposition, report says
A new report says Seneca County Commissioner Bill Frankart acknowledged under oath that some public statements were false and went uncorrected ahead of the May 5 primary election.
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Husted touts endorsement of Ohio sheriff who intimidated voters
It's at least the third controversial endorsement Husted's campaign has publicly promoted in recent months.
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Racial health-care problems are stubborn — and they’re particularly bad in Ohio, report says
Experts warn federal Medicaid cuts and reduced data transparency could deepen racial health disparities in Ohio, where outcomes already lag for Black and Hispanic residents.
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Ohio will get a National Women’s Soccer League team, but residents oppose training facility location
A new NWSL team in Columbus plans a training site at McCoy Park, raising concerns after promised upgrades in an underserved neighborhood are displaced.
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Ohio’s Republican supreme court candidates make a bid to unseat 6-1 court’s only Democratic justice
Four Republican candidates in Ohio’s Supreme Court primary highlight legal experience and judicial philosophy as they compete to unseat the court’s lone Democrat.
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Ramaswamy backed COVID 'segregation' as firm got $2.25B
Vivek Ramaswamy backed a national COVID registry that would 'segregate' Americans, while his biotech firm got $2.25B from Moderna over vaccines.
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Ohio’s electric bills are high — and so are utility CEO salaries
As Ohio electric bills climbed 22% in February — the sharpest increase of any state but one — the CEOs of the state's four electric utilities collectively took home $81 million in 2025, including a $37 million payday for AEP's top executive.
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Future of Haitians living in Ohio with temporary protected status depends on the U.S. Supreme Court
The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments this week on whether the Trump administration can strip Temporary Protected Status from Haitian and Syrian nationals — a ruling that could directly impact tens of thousands of Ohioans, including an estimated 12,000 to 15,000 Haitians living in Springfield.
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Ohio Supreme Court reverses PUCO decision, finds utility resellers are utilities under state law
The Ohio Supreme Court reversed a state regulators' decision, ruling that third-party submetering companies supplying electricity to apartment tenants must be treated as utilities — sending the case back to the Public Utilities Commission and intensifying a legislative battle over consumer protections.
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Ohio Supreme Court rules against parental rights for woman in same-sex custody case
The Ohio Supreme Court ruled that a woman has no legal parenting rights to children born to her former same-sex partner, rejecting a lower court's "would-have-been-married" standard as an impossible legal test.
