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Democratic state lawmakers say the Republicans who control the Ohio House and Senate are passing bills that make it harder for voters who tend to favor Democrats to cast ballots. But Republicans say the Democrats have it wrong. Ohio Public Radio’s Jo Ingles reports on the fight over voting rights.

The Republican-controlled Ohio House has voted 58-to-32 to uphold a GOP candidate's victory last year in a disputed race for state representative.

Democrats in the Ohio Senate want to redirect millions of dollars from a proposed income tax cut to education. The proposal is among roughly 200 amendments they offered to the state's $61.5 billion, two-year budget.

A federal judge in Denver recently ruled that nearly 250 Abercrombie & Fitch Co. and J.M. Hollister LLC clothing stores are unfriendly to the disabled.

The State Highway Patrol says 29 people have been injured in a crash between a commercial bus and a car on Interstate 75 in northwest Ohio.

Police in central Ohio are looking for a 20-year-old man who they say walked into a high school and tried to abduct his 14-year-old ex-girlfriend.

Though the Ohio Republican Party has been dealing with a split among its constituents, the GOP hasn’t forgotten its oldest enemy – the Democrats.

A 17-year-old boy charged with killing two teenage brothers in northwest Ohio has pleaded not guilty.

Tea Party members from Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana converged in Cincinnati yesterday to protest the recent IRS scandal.

City, county, and state authorities raided a clinic and two pharmacies on Columbus' South side this morning as part of a nine-month investigation of alleged pill mills.

A Knox County grand jury this morning indicted a Mount Vernon man charged with hitting and injuring a Danville police officer during a cross-county chase early Sunday morning.

Zanesville Police say a 2-year-old autistic boy from Akron drowned in the Muskingum River Saturday after wandering away from his family's cabin.

Funeral services are pending for the Columbus man whose body washed ashore on a North Carolina beach over the weekend.

Ohio EPA investigators suspect a chemical leak is to blame for a fish kill in Sycamore Creek in Blue Ash last week.

Disciplinary hearings for six of the twelve Cleveland police supervisors stemming from last year's chase and fatal shooting are underway.

Red Cross volunteers from Central Ohio leave this morning to help victims of the tornadoes in Oklahoma.

Ohio is one of 15 states where undocumented immigrants are being sent back to their home country after seeking medical care.

Plans are in the works to renovate a former warehouse in Franklinton for use as a place to launch new businesses.

Rules designed to govern Columbus' growing food truck scene are on hold.

Democratic State Representative Connie Pillich says she is running for State Treasurer.