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Anti-Nuclear Bailout Group Argues for More Time to Collect Signatures
By: Andy Chow | Statehouse News Bureau
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Ohioans Against Corporate Bailouts revealed in a U.S. District Court hearing that they fell far short of the signatures needed to qualify for a potential referendum on the nuclear bailout… Read More
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Ohio Governor Convenes Talks With Lawyers in Opioid Lawsuits
By: Julie Carr Smyth | AP
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) – Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine said Tuesday that he has convened a meeting with the state attorney general and lawyers for cities and counties involved in the… Read More
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Woman Claims Sold Drugs to Help Kids; Gets 11-year Sentence
By: Associated Press
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ZANESVILLE, Ohio (AP) – An Ohio woman who claims the reason she sold drugs was to raise money to buy a farm and send her five children to college has… Read More
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Appalachian Tourism Works to Bring Residents Out of Poverty
By: Taylor PacelliBy: Benjamin Schwartz, Tyler Corbit
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You walk upon it, and it doesn’t appear to be much. It is a semi-circle in the middle of nowhere. It has no cell service. When you go closer to… Read More
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Trump Calls Impeachment Inquiry A ‘Lynching’
By: Brian Naylor | NPR
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In a Tuesday morning tweet, the president lashed out at the process underway in the House that may lead to an impeachment vote.
![After being taken to a hospital for observation and treatment of a minor pelvic fracture, former President Jimmy Carter "is in good spirits and is looking forward to recovering at home," the Carter Center says. He's seen here with his wife, Rosalynn Carter, earlier this year.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/rts2sa2a-5edb320b6bd1cc4be852476b3d7e74a9d373eaec-e1571761492177-900x422.jpg)
Jimmy Carter Fractures Pelvis, Is Hospitalized After Fall
By: Bill Chappell | NPR
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The former president, 95, was admitted to a Georgia hospital “for observation and treatment of a minor pelvic fracture,” the Carter Center says. It adds that Carter “is in good spirits.”
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Murray Energy CEO Lashes Out at “Feckless” Federal Officials Over Coal Subsidy Plan
By: Sydney Boles | Ohio Valley ReSource
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Coal executive Bob Murray clashed Monday with federal energy regulators at a Lexington, Kentucky, energy forum over what Murray called a failure by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to sufficiently… Read More
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Data Center Lets Kentuckians Track Higher Education System
By: Associated Press
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FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — The Council on Postsecondary Education says the public launch of a comprehensive data center will enable Kentuckians to track progress in the state’s higher education system…. Read More
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Home Rule In Ohio – Under Attack Or Reined In?
By: Karen Kasler | Statehouse News Bureau
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The home rule provision was added to the Ohio constitution by voters in 1912, and the struggles between local officials and state lawmakers have raged almost since then. In recent years, state… Read More
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News Orgs Appeal To Supreme Court For Gunman Records
By: Associated Press
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CINCINNATI (AP) – News organizations seeking school records of a gunman who killed nine people in Dayton have appealed to the Ohio Supreme Court after a lower court rejected their… Read More
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Ex-CEO and Ex-prisoner Blankenship Making Presidential Bid
By: Associated Press
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Former coal executive and ex-federal prisoner Don Blankenship says he’ll seek the Constitution Party’s presidential nomination next year. West Virginia Constitution Party chairman Jeffrey-Frank Jarrell says… Read More
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Family to Appeal Oberlin College Jury Award Reduction
By: Associated Press
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OBERLIN, Ohio (AP) — The Ohio business owners whose $44 million jury award in a lawsuit against Oberlin College was cut by a judge to $31.5 million plans to appeal… Read More
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Fired TV Weatherman Pleads Not Guilty to Child Porn Charges
By: Associated Press
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A former television weatherman accused of downloading pornographic images depicting children has pleaded not guilty in Ohio to four child pornography-related charges. Sixty-year-old Mike Davis pleaded… Read More
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Parts of Pike County to be Tested for Radiological Contaminants
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PIKETON, Ohio (AP) — A private company will test schools and homes near a former uranium enrichment plant in Ohio for radiological contaminants after trace amounts of enriched uranium were… Read More
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“Made in Boise” Opens New Season of Independent Lens | Monday, October 28, 2019
An Inside Look at the Lives of Women Who Are Carrying Babies as Surrogates for Gay Couples, Single Men and Infertile Couples A surprising — and booming — industry… Read More