Jim Letizia

12-thousand Ohio children live in foster homes, 40 percent below the number of a decade ago.

An announcement that the state plans to lease the Ohio Turnpike is expected by the end of the week.

Bexley's landmark Drexel Theatre is undergoing major renovations.

Five companies are receiving state tax breaks to create jobs in Central Ohio.

Marion County Commissioners say their share of state casino tax revenue should be enough to reopen the women's wing of the Multi-County Correctional Center.

A death row inmate trying to delay his execution because of his extreme weight is appealing a judge's ruling denying his claim.

Authorities investigating a Cleveland car chase that ended with a barrage of fatal police gunfire and two deaths are seeking help from businesses along the chase route who may have recorded security camera video.

One-thousand employees of Columbus-based Nationwide Insurance moved from two offices in Dublin yesterday to a new building on Nationwide Boulevard downtown.

Columbus city officials say the city will host the 2017 National Association of Counties convention.

A woman wanted on charges she pretended to be the abused wife of a Pittsburgh police officer so she could live at a battered women's shelter is now facing charges and is jailed in Ashland, Ohio for allegedly doing the same thing there.

A new Brent Spence Bridge in Cincinnati will likely be paid for with tolls.

Columbus Police have arrested one suspect and are searching for another in connection with a November 30th shooting at a West Broad Street convenience store.

The Ohio Attorney General's Office is appealing a Franklin County judge's November ruling that cleared the name of a man who spent more than five years on death row for a pair of 1982 slayings he didn't commit.

Many people say politics these days has gotten too bitter and disrespectful.

The State Highway Patrol is investigating threatening letters sent to six Republican Ohio House members in September.

Being two minutes late is costing nearly two-dozen Delaware County firefighters their jobs.

A Columbus child is recovering from a bout with bacterial meningitis.

Dozens of local McGraw-Hill employees are losing their jobs.

The Ohio Supreme Court has upheld a 42-million dollar penalty against Columbus-based American Electric Power for earning excessive profits.

Republican Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted says he will not challenge Governor John Kasich in the 2014 GOP primary.