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Ex-lawmakers filed a promised lawsuit over unclaimed funds for the Cleveland Browns stadium in Ohio’s budget
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — As they promised late last month, two Democratic former lawmakers have filed a lawsuit on behalf of Ohioans who could have unclaimed funds with… Read More

Ohio workers who claim they’re owed $900m in unemployment COVID funds win again in court
By: Karen Kasler | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — An appeals court has ordered Gov. Mike DeWine to take $900 million in federal funds Ohioans needed for unemployment during the COVID pandemic and… Read More

Ohio is in line for $198M over 15 years after a big settlement with opioid maker Purdue Pharma
By: Karen Kasler | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Ohio could get $198 million over 15 years from a huge settlement struck between attorneys general from 49 states, the District of Columbia and… Read More

A judge tossed out a defamation case brought by William Husel, the Ohio doctor who was acquitted of killing patients
By: Julie Carr Smyth | John Seewer | AP
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A former Ohio doctor who was fired before being found not guilty on murder charges in the deaths of 14 patients lost a defamation lawsuit against… Read More

The Supreme Court makes it easier to claim ‘reverse discrimination’ in employment, in a case from Ohio
By: Mark Sherman | AP
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A unanimous Supreme Court made it easier Thursday to bring lawsuits over so-called reverse discrimination, siding with an Ohio woman who claims she didn’t get a job… Read More

Groups have sued over West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey’s order on religious exemptions for school vaccines
By: John Raby | AP
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Two groups filed a lawsuit Friday over an executive order by West Virginia Republican Gov. Patrick Morrisey granting religious exemptions from required school vaccines. The American… Read More

Former Hocking County prosecutor Ryan Black has been suspended for two years for sexual misconduct
By: Ellie Owen | WOSU
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (WOSU) — Ryan Black, a former Hocking County prosecutor, has been suspended by the Ohio Supreme Court for two years, with six months stayed, for inappropriate conduct in… Read More

A truck driver was found guilty on lesser charges in a bus crash that killed 6 people on a school trip
By: Associated Press
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NEWARK, Ohio (AP) — A truck driver who triggered a chain-reaction that ended with a bus crash that killed three Ohio high school band students and three adults was convicted… Read More

A court in West Virginia declined to answer whether opioids distribution can cause a public nuisance
By: John Raby | AP
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia’s Supreme Court on Monday declined to answer a federal court’s question in an appeal in a landmark lawsuit over whether the distribution of opioids… Read More

A court upholds the racketeering convictions of an ex-Ohio House speaker and a lobbyist in a $60M bribery scheme
By: Julie Carr Smyth | AP
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A federal appeals court upheld the racketeering convictions of former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder and an ex-lobbyist on Tuesday in a $60 million bribery scheme… Read More

A family says Ohio jail guards stood by as a restrained man who later died lost consciousness
By: John Seewer | AP
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MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Ohio (AP) — The family of a man who died after being restrained in an Ohio jail said Monday that the deputies who piled on him stood by… Read More

Is Norfolk Southern ‘making it right’ after the East Palestine derailment? A new lawsuit adds to doubts
By: Josh Funk | John Seewer | AP
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EAST PALESTINE, Ohio (AP) — Norfolk Southern began making promises to East Palestine, Ohio, soon after its train derailed and caught fire in February 2023. The railroad said it would “make it… Read More

A jury decides Norfolk Southern should pay for the $600 million settlement in the 2023 East Palestine derailment
By: Josh Funk | AP
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EAST PALESTINE, Ohio (AP) — The company that owned the railcar that caused the devastating East Palestine train derailment in 2023 won’t have to help pay for the $600 million… Read More

A judge permanently struck down the parental social media consent law in Ohio
By: Sarah Donaldson | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — A law requiring social media and gaming sites to get parental permission before letting any Ohioan younger than 16 onto their platforms can’t go… Read More

Some opponents are eyeing legal action after Gov. Mike DeWine signed Ohio’s higher education overhaul bill
By: Sarah Donaldson | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Gov. Mike DeWine wasted no time in signing the controversial Senate Bill 1 on Friday, less than 48 hours after he received it, meaning… Read More

A trial will determine who pays the $600 million settlement from the disastrous East Palestine derailment
By: Josh Funk | AP
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Norfolk Southern wants two other companies to help pay for the $600 million class-action settlement it agreed to over its disastrous 2023 East Palestine train derailment near the Ohio-Pennsylvania border… Read More

Meet the “bounty hunter” filing lawsuits in the name of government transparency
By: Erin Gottsacker | The Ohio Newsroom
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CINCINNATI (The Ohio Newsroom) — Brian Ames has spent the last decade filing upwards of 160 lawsuits against local governments in the name of government transparency. “I go find public… Read More

An appeals court blocks Ohio’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors
By: Julie Carr Smyth | AP
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors is unconstitutional and must be permanently blocked from being enforced, a three-judge panel of appellate judges ruled Tuesday. The… Read More

A court rules an Ohio law that requires burial or cremation of aborted fetal remains is unconstitutional
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — A 2021 Ohio law requiring the burial or cremation of fetal remains from abortion has been blocked by a Hamilton County judge. The court… Read More

A judge orders the state to ask feds for $900M in COVID unemployment benefits for 300,000 Ohioans
By: Karen Kasler | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Ohio must try to get back around a billion dollars in pandemic unemployment benefits from the federal government and distribute it to Ohioans who have… Read More

An ex-sheriff charged in a judge’s shooting that rocked a Kentucky community watches his hearing from jail
By: Bruce Schreiner | AP
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LETCHER COUNTY, Ky. (AP) — A former Kentucky sheriff accused of gunning down a judge last year, stunning their tight-knit Appalachian community, appeared remotely from jail on Friday for a court… Read More

The Feds have indicted former FirstEnergy executives already facing charges in Ohio court
By: Karen Kasler | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Former FirstEnergy executives Chuck Jones and Michael Dowling have been indicted on federal charges in connection with the billion-dollar nuclear power plant bailout scheme,… Read More

A new Ohio law seeks to stop damage from meritless SLAPP suits and protect speech
By: Karen Kasler | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Ohio has a new law to battle strategic lawsuits against public participation, known as SLAPP suits. Supporters of the law say these suits are designed… Read More

Altice will spend millions on internet upgrades in a settlement with West Virginia
By: Associated Press
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The parent company of one of West Virginia’s largest internet providers has reached a settlement with the state to resolve thousands of consumer complaints and provide… Read More

Albertsons sues Kroger for failing to win approval of their proposed supermarket merger
By: Dee-Ann Durbin | AP
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Kroger and Albertsons’ plan for the largest U.S. supermarket merger in history crumbled last week, with Albertsons pulling out of the $24.6 billion deal and the two companies accusing each other… Read More
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