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The Republican proposal for new state House and Senate district maps, adopted by the Ohio Redistricting Commission as working documents, is expected to be ratified this week. FILE

Intense debate continues on Ohio critical race theory bills

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The Ohio Redistricting Commission approved new maps for Ohio General Assembly seats.

See how your Statehouse districts will change

The Ohio Statehouse in Columbus, Ohio. (Doral Chenoweth/The Columbus Dispatch via AP)

New state House, Senate district maps only good for four years

Children’s hospitals urge schools to mandate masks

State redistricting debate, calls to avoid gerrymandering continue ahead of vote

Dayton emergency responders have been impacted by fatal drug overdoses in the city. The big opioid settlements could help respond to the damage from the public health crisis. STAFF

Lessons from Ohio’s Big Tobacco settlement can inform opioid settlement

State Superintendent of Public Instruction Paolo DeMaria (left) listens to Darius Watkins discuss the impact of Springfield’s Career ConnectED on his education. JEFF GUERINI/STAFF

Outgoing superintendent urges Ohio schools to take risks

The Republican proposal for new state House and Senate district maps, adopted by the Ohio Redistricting Commission as working documents, is expected to be ratified this week. FILE

Ohio redistricting plan called illegal, roundly criticized at Dayton-area hearing as...

Photos of Deb Loewer from the ridge above the Pentagon with Deb’s former office and area where the plane struck on 9.11 over her shoulder.

Springfield native who ran Situation Room on 9/11: Don’t rush to judgment on Afghanistan

What Ohio lawmakers will likely focus on this fall

The Ohio Statehouse. FILE

Coalition pushes for more public input, transparency for new legislative maps

Gov. Mike DeWine speaks Monday, backed by Maj. Gen. (Ret.) Deborah Ashenhurst, Ohio Department of Veterans Services director; right, Lori Criss, Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services director; middle, and Maj. Gen. John Harris, Ohio adjutant general.

DeWine urges veterans to seek mental health services

U.S. soldiers stand guard inside the airport walls as hundreds of people gather near an evacuation control checkpoint on the perimeter of the Hamid Karzai International Airport, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Aug. 26, 2021. Western nations warned Thursday of a possible attack on Kabul's airport, where thousands have flocked as they try to flee Taliban-controlled Afghanistan in the waning days of a massive airlift. Britain said an attack could come within hours. (AP Photo/Wali Sabawoon)

Ohio leaders react to the carnage in Kabul

Ohio State legislators held a redistricting conference Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2021, at Sinclair College in Dayton. The redistricting commission is holding crowd-and - panel meetings all across the state. Jim Noelker/Staff

Gerrymandering decried at local redistricting meeting

Here’s your chance to weigh in on state redistricting

Ohio bills to restrict COVID mask, vaccine mandates stir heavy debate

FILE - In this Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021 file photo, supporters of President Donald Trump gather outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/Shafkat Anowar)

Kettering man charged in U.S. Capitol riot

The Ohio Statehouse

Feds withdraw approval for Ohio Medicaid work requirements

New leader of Ohio’s schools announces surprise resignation

Lebanon Mayor Amy Brewer, who has served on Lebanon City Council for 32 years, the last 20 as mayor, said she was retiring from public service and said she felt blessed and good about making this decision.

Lebanon mayor in office for 32 years not seeking re-election

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

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

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine and Dayton Mayor Nan Whaley received the most campaign contributions in the race for Ohio governor during the first half of 2021. In this 2019 file photo DeWine and Whaley participate in a forum about gun violence in the wake of the Aug. 4 mass shooting in Dayton's Oregon District.. BILL LACKEY/STAFF

DeWine, Whaley raise the most in their party primaries for 2022 governor race

Plummer plans to run for Ohio House speaker

Racial equity language triggers state school board fight in Ohio

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine ordered the amount contributed to his campaign from FirstEnergy to be donated to the Boys and Girls Clubs after the utility agreed to a historic $230 million penalty to resolve federal charges that it was involved in a bribery scheme to pass a state bailout of nuclear power plants. FILE

DeWine directs campaign to give FirstEnergy donations to Boys and Girls Clubs

Walt Davis of Warren County was appointed to the state school board by Gov. Mike DeWine in June 2021. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO

From Pentagon to roller coasters to education: Local man joins state school board

Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Urbana, was one of five GOP picks by House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy for the Democrat-led Jan. 6 select committee to investigate the deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, Pool)

Rep. Jim Jordan named to Jan. 6 select committee

A death chamber at the Southern Ohio Corrections Facility in Lucasville, Ohio. THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

Why area Republicans sponsored bills to abolish Ohio’s death penalty

Search the database: See how much local businesses got from $28.6B federal restaurant...

New Ohio law says schools can’t enforce current CDC guidance

Local schools face mask decisions amid new COVID guidance: Here’s what they’re saying

Data breaches on track for record this year as Ohio bill hopes to create ‘data rights’

Explainer: If you work from home, could you get a 2021 tax refund?

Former U.S. attorney David DeVillers is leading Ohio's effort to recover fraudulent unemployment payouts.

Ohio recovers $150M in fraud overpayments; can it recoup the rest?

Kathleen Wiant speaks about her son Collin, a college student who died as a result of hazing, during a news conference Tuesday before Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine, left, signed an anti-hazing law. Also pictured are Collin's father Wade Wiant and at right, Shari and Cory Foltz, the parents of Stone Foltz, who also died in a hazing incident. THE OHIO CHANNEL

New Ohio law increases penalties for hazing following deaths at Ohio University, Bowling...

Good Shepherd Academy center toddlers sing a walking song as they walk the hallway at the Jubilee Community Church in Springboro. TY GREENLEES / STAFF

Ohio’s child care system lowers bar on quality

Dayton Daily News Reporter Josh Sweigart is one of many Ohioans whose identity was used to fraudulently file for unemployment.

Unemployment fraud-fighting efforts reveal scope of fraud attempts in Ohio

DeWine praises budget, explains decisions on vetoes

J.D. Vance: 7 things to know about the ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ author and U.S. Senate candidate

J.D. Vance announced his bid for the U.S. Senate during an event at Middletown Tube in Middletown on Thursday, July 1, 2021. NICK GRAHAM / STAFF

‘Hillbilly Elegy’ author J.D. Vance announces bid for U.S. Senate in hometown of...

Images that appear to show Timothy Allen Hart of Huber Heights Jan. 6, 2021, at the U.S. Capitol were included in criminal complaint against him filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

Huber Heights man 5th in area charged in Capitol riot

State school superintendent DeMaria retiring

The Ohio Statehouse

$74 billion state budget heads to DeWine for signature, vetoes

Ohio meets ‘urgent deadline’ as DeWine signs executive order on name, image, likeness...

School report card reform bill heads to governor

Proposed statehouse bill could change child custody in divorce cases

State rejects protest to new Ohio Medicaid system

Senator Niraj Antani (R-Miamisburg) and Ohio State football coach Ryan Day (right). Day testified Tuesday in support of the name, image and likeness bill introduced by Antani. That bill was passed by the Senate on Wednesday. CONTRIBUTED

Sports-related bills sponsored by area lawmaker passed by Ohio Senate

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