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Sheriff: 4 Inmates Escape Gallia County Jail
GALLIPOLIS, Ohio (AP) — A sheriff says four inmates have overpowered two corrections officers with a homemade weapon and escaped from a county jail in Ohio. The Gallia County Sheriff’s… Read More
Advocates: People Held at W.Va. Mental Hospitals Unnecessarily
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Disability rights advocates in West Virginia say patients who are sent to state-run psychiatric hospitals after being found not guilty of a crime by reason of… Read More
Ohio Releases List of 183,000 Cancelled Voter Registrations
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio’s elections chief is urging voters to see if they’re among almost 183,000 registrations canceled as part of the state’s voter rolls maintenance. Republican Secretary of… Read More
Kentucky’s Overcrowded Jails Full of Nonviolent Offenders
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky’s overcrowded jails are filled with nonviolent offenders who pose little risk, according to an analysis by the Administrative Office of the Courts reported in the Lexington Herald-Leader…. Read More
Women In Government: What Stands In The Way?
When Kellyanne Conway, White House counselor for President Donald Trump, took the stage at the Ohio Republican Party State dinner the very first topic of discussion was on women in… Read More
Ohio Weighs Opening Highway Corridors to Broadband Projects
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — About 1 million Ohioans, mostly in Appalachia, lack high-speed internet service and the state’s highway corridors may hold the key to addressing the stubborn problem, a… Read More