FREDERICK, Md. (AP) — A Frederick County judge is affirming a decision blocking a key component of a proposed multistate power line. Circuit Judge Edward Dwyer issued his opinion Wednesday in a case involving the Potomac-Appalachian Transmission Highline. He affirmed a local zoning board’s denial of Potomac Edison’s plan to build an electrical substation on 150 acres […]
CINCINNATI (AP) — An Ohio city is preparing to adopt tough new restrictions on scrap metal sales aimed at curbing theft problems. Cincinnati city council could vote as soon as Wednesday afternoon’s meeting on proposed rules that legislative experts say would be among the nation’s strictest. They would require frequent sellers to obtain licenses, pass […]
AKRON, Ohio (AP) — The star witness at a high-profile public corruption trial in northeast Ohio has testified against a former political power broker, saying the man craved free meals, liquor and prostitutes. Former Cuyahoga (ky-uh-HOH’-guh) County Auditor Frank Russo took the stand Tuesday at the Akron federal court trial of former Commissioner Jimmy Dimora. […]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — As attacks on Ohio Republicans heat up over their handling of congressional redistricting, state records show Democrats didn’t use their mapmaking money from taxpayers to draw any lines at all. They spent $40,000 of their allotted $150,000 to hire a liberal think tank with ties to former Gov. Ted Strickland for help […]
COLUMBUS (AP) — Ohio’s unemployment rate saw its largest one-month decline in nearly 30 years during November amid improvement in the state’s job market and overall economy, and as thousands of the state’s jobless stopped searching for work, officials said Friday. Gov. John Kasich called the report “encouraging.” Joblessness dropped to 8.5 percent last month, from […]
COLUMBUS (AP) — Voters in Ohio have decided against raising the age limit for judges from 70 to 75. They upheld a 1973 law that capped judicial age at 70, under the philosophy that age can affect judgment and therefore older judges should be forced to retire. Defeat potentially affects 10 percent of sitting judges over […]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Voters in Ohio have approved a ballot measure intended to keep government from requiring Ohioans to participate in any health care system. The constitutional amendment passed is largely symbolic, coming in response to the 2009 federal health care overhaul, a provision of which mandates that most Americans purchase health care. Supporters […]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The state’s new collective bargaining law was defeated Tuesday after an expensive union-backed campaign that pitted firefighters, police officers and teachers against the Republican establishment. In a political blow to GOP Gov. John Kasich, voters handily rejected the law, which would have limited the bargaining abilities of 350,000 unionized public workers. […]