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WASHINGTON -- The House voted Thursday to request an investigation into how long Democratic leaders knew about sexual misconduct allegations involving former Democratic Rep.

John Nance, a former Associated Press reporter and photographer who covered the Vietnam War and later oversaw the news cooperative's operations in the Philippines, has died.

Amtrak says it is looking for ways to improve service on two long-distance routes that pass through Ohio.

The 1851 Center for Constitutional Law had filed a lawsuit against the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, ACORN's full name.

Congressional opponents of the war in Afghanistan forced a debate Wednesday on the floor of the House of Representatives on a resolution to bring U.S. forces home and end the eight-year-old war.

The Ohio Supreme Court has agreed to weigh the constitutionality of a 2006 state law that lifted most local gun restrictions.

Only Ohio and Native American tribes in Washington and Oregon have so far met the deadline to comply with a federal law passed nearly three years ago to coordinate and expand sex offender registration nationwide, a U.S. Justice Department official said Wednesday.States and tribes have until this summer to implement the registration and notification ...

More than 5,000 Central Ohioans joined the ranks of the unemployed who were looking for a job in January, pushing the seven-county region's jobless rate to its highest level in more than a quarter-century, according to new data from the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services.

The suit filed in Dayton U.S. district court says The Connor Group ran a Craigslist online ad last year touting a bachelor pad for single men looking to "hook up." That drew the attention of the Miami Valley Fair Housing center, which seeks at least $25,000 in compensatory and punitive damages, an order that Connor Group employees get fair housing ...

Two former Ohio day care workers have been charged with giving children an over-the-counter dietary supplement to make them sleep.

FRANKLIN TWP., Warren County - A 22-year-old Middletown man fled the scene after hitting a guardrail and flipping his girlfriend's Gold Honda CRV on northbound Interstate 75 at the 40 mile marker, just north of Ohio 73 at 1:45 a.m. Tuesday, March 9. According to Ohio Highway Patrol Dispatcher Tiffany Coy, of the Lebanon Post of the Ohio State ...

Authorities say the unsuspecting woman had a 14-year relationship with Fernando Castro.

Ohio Senators have unanimously passed a House bill that would allow juvenile courts to issue protection orders for minors in dating relationships.

Records show that an Ohio State University janitor who fatally shot a supervisor and injured another was told last week he was being fired.

A surge of consumer complaints is giving National Consumer Protection Week 2010 additional importance in Ohio this year.

COLUMBUS -- Internal pressure was mounting for months ahead of the February firings of the staff of an agency charged with protecting the well-being of Ohio's insurance fund for injured workers.

CLEVELAND -- A cash-strapped historical society sold antique cars and other rare artifacts to pay off debt, embittering many supporters who say the sales have been shrouded in secrecy, The Plain Dealer reported Sunday.

Today is Monday, March 8, the 67th day of 2010. There are 298 days left in the year.

Ohio has missed out on thousands of manufacturing jobs in the solar industry because it was slow to phase out certain taxes and make other adjustments to lure factories, a newspaper reported Sunday.

A convicted killer found unconscious in prison a little more than a day before his scheduled execution has been hospitalized in serious condition as authorities investigate a possible overdose, Ohio prison officials said Monday.