State lawmakers want to send more state dollars to pre-kindergarten programs that prepare children for kindergarten.Sen. Peggy Lehner, R-Kettering, wants to put $100 million toward pre-kindergarten education for Ohio’s youngest and poorest students. Lehner, who serves on a panel of lawmakers evaluating the House version of the state budget bill, ...
After spending about a decade in captivity, the three Cleveland women who were freed Monday may struggle for years to overcome the psychological and emotional trauma they suffered. Experts interviewed by the Dayton Daily News said survivors of kidnapping and sexual slavery often develop post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, anxiety and ...
The case of Cleveland kidnapping and rape suspect Ariel Castro continues to shock the world. Several twisted and disturbing allegations have emerged about the former Cleveland Public School Bus driver jailed in lieu of $8 million bond set Thursday on charges he kidnapped three young women and held them in ...
New government data showing the amounts U.S. hospitals’ charge Medicare for certain procedures confirm what consumer groups have suspected for years: hospitals, even in the same or nearby communities, can charge wildly different amounts for the same procedures. In Ohio, for example, the average charge to implant a permanent pacemaker ...
A surprise inspection of the state prison in Lebanon shows violence has been escalating over the past two years with more disturbances and assaults. Half of the inmates rate Lebanon Correctional Institution as unsafe or very unsafe and the prison is tied with the prison in Lucasville for the highest ...
The Ohio Attorney General’s office is slowly building a database of unsolved homicides from across the state in the hopes of generating new leads for detectives who might be able to solve cases that went cold long ago. “The idea was to get every unsolved homicide on a statewide database. ...
Ohio’s graying manufacturing workforce threatens to saddle some employers with labor shortages and hefty costs associated with training and replacing retiring employees. About one in four manufacturing workers in Ohio is 55 and older, which is up from more than one in seven workers a decade ago, according to a ...
Ohio lawmakers may allow larger cities to create “ entertainment districts” where open alcohol container laws would not apply — similar to the French Quarter in New Orleans and Fourth Street Live in Louisville. The bill, if passed, would apply to any city of more than 50,000 residents, meaning in ...
The U.S. Department of Justice filed suit this week against the nation’s largest for-profit hospice chain, based in Cincinnati, alleging the company wrongly charged Medicare tens of millions of dollars for care that wasn’t needed or wasn’t provided.VITAS Hospice Care has one location on Kettering Boulevard in Dayton that serves ...
Ohio Senate President Keith Faber struck a blow to members of his own party Wednesday, saying there is not enough GOP support behind legislation to make Ohio the 25th “right-to-work” state. >> Which states have right-to-work laws? After meeting with fellow Republicans Gov. John Kasich and House Speaker Bill Batchelder, ...
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