Ohio Politics

More than 150 people jammed into the Mason City Building's council chamber, overflow room and lobby on Monday to express their opinion about a proposed anti-abortion ordinance being reviewed by a Mason City Council committee that is similar to one adopted in May by Lebanon City Council. The ordinance has been discussed in committee but has not made it to the agenda for council consideration. ED RICHTER/STAFF

Mason city council passes ban on abortions in city limits

Sen. Sherrod Brown talks to a worker during his tour of TAC Industries’ Cargo Net Manufacturing Facility in Springfield on Friday. Hasan Karim/Staff

Sen. Brown visits Springfield nonprofit that focuses on job training for those with...

Beavercreek High School junior ROTC presented the colors at the beginning of the 911 Anniversary Memorial Saturday Sept.11, 2021. JIM NOELER/STAFF

PHOTOS: 20th anniversary of 9/11 attacks: A look at local observances

Vehicles are under water during flooding in Philadelphia, Thursday, Sept. 2, 2021 in the aftermath of downpours and high winds from the remnants of Hurricane Ida that hit the area. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

PHOTOS: Hurricane Ida’s remnants hit Northeast

$Dayton Mayor Nan Whaley, is seeking the Democratic nomination in the Ohio gubernatorial race. Whaley said Thursday, Aug. 5, 2021, she will visit all 88 Ohio counties by early May, pledging to give voters “a voice, to listen to them and to give them power, because Ohio deserves better.” MARSHALL GORBY\STAFF$

Dayton mayor pledges to visit Ohio’s 88 counties in gubernatorial bid

Rep. Joyce Beatty, D-Ohio, chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus is taken into custody by U.S. Capitol Police officers in the Hart Senate Office Building, after a demonstration supporting the voting rights, on Capitol Hill, Thursday, July 15, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

PHOTOS: Ohio Rep. Joyce Beatty arrested during voting rights protest at Capitol

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Ohio Medicaid providers’ data may have been exposed from data breach

State rejects protest to new Ohio Medicaid system

Ohio overhauling $20B Medicaid program, but budget could pump the brakes

Smoke caused by Israeli airstrikes are seen at a residential building in Gaza City, early Wednesday, May 12, 2021. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

PHOTOS: Heavy hitting, escalating Mideast violence intensifies

West Chester trustee making national appearances as a voice to stop Asian hate, violence

Butler County voters will have several decisions to make this November's general election. NICK GRAHAM/STAFF

After quiet spring, Butler County to see host of candidates, election issues this...

Citizens stand near the municipal building after at least one Pasquotank County Sheriff's deputy shot and killed a Black man while executing a search warrant, the sheriff's office said, Wednesday, April 21, 2021, in Elizabeth City, N.C. The deputy was wearing an active body camera at the time of the shooting, said Sheriff Tommy Wooten II, who declined to say how many shots the deputy fired or release any other details, citing a pending review by the State Bureau of Investigation. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)

PHOTOS: North Carolina police shooting protests continue in Elizabeth City

Ohio State students gather on High Street to protest the police shooting that killed Ma'Khia Bryant and call on the university to cut its ties with the Columbus Police Department, Wednesday, April 21, 2021, at the Ohio Union in Columbus, Ohio. The demonstration began at the Student Union and moved to the Ohio Statehouse down High Street. (Kyle Robertson/The Columbus Dispatch via AP)

PHOTOS: Protests in Columbus after 16-year-old girl killed by police

Mourners attend a vigil for the victims of a mass shooting at a grocery store earlier in the week, Wednesday, March 24, 2021, outside the courthouse in Boulder, Colo. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

PHOTOS: Vigil held for Colorado mass shooting victims in Boulder

A migrant child, right, looks at a U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer at an intake area upon crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, early Wednesday, March 24, 2021, in Roma, Texas. A surge of migrants on the Southwest border has the Biden administration on the defensive. The head of Homeland Security acknowledged the severity of the problem but insisted it's under control and said he won't revive a Trump-era practice of immediately expelling teens and children. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

PHOTOS: Surge of migrant children at border a US humanitarian, political challenge

A man and woman kiss near the scene of a mass shooting in a King Soopers grocery store, Monday, March 22, 2021, in Boulder, Colo. (Hart Van Denberg/Colorado Public Radio viua AP)

PHOTOS: Mass shooting at Colorado grocery store

Flowers and messages of support are shown near the International Full Gospel Fellowship church, Thursday, March 18, 2021, in Seattle. The church was one of two in the neighborhood that were hit with anti-Asian graffiti earlier in the week, one of several incidents targeting Asian neighborhoods in Seattle this year. Asian Americans were already worn down by a year of pandemic-fueled racist attacks when a white gunman was charged with killing eight people, most of them Asian women, at three Atlanta-area massage parlors on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

PHOTOS: Outrage, grief over Asian American deaths, anti-Asian violence in America

Meet Arnold Ziffel, a Vietnamese Pot-Bellied Pig. Arnold was the focus of dueling lawsuits between Arnold's owners Rick and Kathy Price and their homeowners association in Springboro. A Warren County magistrate has decided that the pig is a family pet and is not livestock.

PHOTOS: This pet pig was in the middle of dueling lawsuits. Now he's just a pet.

Voter turnout in Beavercreek was good, officials said at the University Baptist Church, on Tuesday, May 4, 2021.

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