Jim has been with WCBE since 1996. Before that he worked as a reporter at another Columbus radio station, and for three newspapers in Southwest Florida.
A federal judge has denied a request to immediately reinstate two Democratic Montgomery County Board of Elections officials fired by Ohio's Republican Secretary of State. Walter Rice says Dennis Lieberman and Thomas Ritchie failed to identify that a fundamental right had been violated by their removal. Secretary of State Jon Husted accused them of violating state law by voting to approve weekend early voting hours. The two say they wanted to make the voting process as open as possible.
North-Canton-Based Voting Machine maker Diebold says it's "indefinitely" delaying plans to build a new global headquarters in the Summit County city of Green.
With polls showing him trailing President Obama in Ohio, Republican challenger Mitt Romney made 3 campaign stops in the state on Thursday, including a stop at Worthington industries.
A federal judge has ruled Ohio is the appropriate forum for an investors' lawsuit seeking to collect 100 million dollars on three-decade-old Venezuelan promissory notes.
The Olentangy Local School Board has decided to fire a veteran teacher whose son reported a pot-growing operation in the family's basement last August.
The Labor Department says weekly applications for unemployment insurance benefits in Ohio rose by 19-hundred last week due to layoffs in transportation and manufacturing.
Massachusetts regulators proposed a formal reprimand for a company now linked to deadly fungal meningitis outbreak that has hit Ohio and several other states.
The Ottawa County Board of Elections says 22-hundred voters were mailed official postcards listing the presidential election date as November 8th instead of the correct date of November 6th.