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Earlier this week, the company that makes Jeeps criticized a Mitt Romney campaign ad airing in Ohio as misleading. Now, a SECOND automaker is saying the same thing about ANOTHER Romney ad. The arguments are over new auto jobs and where they’re being created. Ohio Public Radio’s Bill Cohen reports.

Thousands of northern Ohio residents are still without power and hundreds of schools closed for a second day as the region cleaned up from Sandy.

Voters who’ve been undecided in recent weeks are coming down to the wire to make a decision in the presidential race.

A dispute over Ohio auto jobs continues to swirl in this key battleground state in the presidential election... with election day just a week away.  A top auto company executive is strongly restating that Jeep has no plans to move Toledo auto jobs overseas... despite a claim to the contrary by Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney, and despite new ADS by Romney's campaign that hint at it. Ohio Public Radio's Bill Cohen reports.

Schools, cities, counties, townships and libraries must make payments to the Ohio Bureau of Workers Compensation.

The National Abortion Rights Action League is blasting Ohio Right to Life's president over statements he recently made about abortion and rape. Ohio Public Radio’s Jo Ingles reports.

The Ohio Republican Party has filed an election complaint against the Obama campaign and state democrats in a squabble over pizza provided to Ohio State University students.

1.4 million Ohioans have requested absentee ballots by mail.

As supporters railed against one another outside last night's U.S Senate debate in Cincinnati, the two candidates traded barbs inside.

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.

Columbus-based Huntington Bank says it will start offering its own brand of credit card next year.

Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan will make eight stops during a weekend campaign swing through Ohio.

This time last year, Ohio airwaves were flooded with political ads urging people to vote for or against Senate Bill 5. That was the state law that would have curbed public employees ability to collectively bargain, and it lost -- big. After that election many teachers decided they want to become a more direct part of the legislative process. And StateImpact Ohio’s Ida Lieszkovszky reports they’re now hoping to switch their classrooms for the Statehouse.

Democrats in the Ohio legislature are continuing to fight that plan from Republican governor John Kasich to privatize the Ohio Turnpike.

State Issue 1 on the November ballot asks voters if Ohio should convene a state constitutional convention.

Republican U.S Senate Candidate Josh Mandel has released a 10 point plan that would be an alternative to the federal health care law.

President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden are scheduled to appear today at a campaign rally in Dayton.

An outdoor advertising company says it's pulling voter-fraud billboards in Ohio and Wisconsin after complaints that they were meant to intimidate African-American voters.

A new Quinnipiac University poll shows President Obama has a five point lead in Ohio over Republican challenger Mitt Romney.

The group that’s backing a proposed change to Ohio’s constitution over redistricting is putting ads on the air statewide…..three weeks after the group opposing the change first put their spots out. Ohio Public Radio’s Jo Ingles reports.