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A poster using the initials of the State Teachers Retirement System of Ohio to spell out "Stealing Teachers' Retirement Savings" hangs on the wall during a board meeting at the pension fund's headquarters in Columbus, Ohio, on Wednesday, May 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Julie Carr Smyth)

What comes next for Ohio’s teacher pension fund? Prospects of a ‘hostile takeover’ are being probed

A battle is under way for the future of Ohio’s $94 billion teacher pension fund. The State Teachers Retirement System of Ohio is facing intense scrutiny, including state investigations and a lawsuit.
 
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine speaks, Thursday, May 23, 2024 in Columbus, Ohio. Gov. Mike DeWine said Thursday that he is calling a special session of the General Assembly next week to pass legislation ensuring President Joe Biden is on the state's 2024 ballot. (AP Photo/Patrick Orsagos)

Ohio governor calls special session to pass legislation ensuring President Biden is on 2024 ballot

 
FILE - Varieties of disposable flavored electronic cigarette devices are displayed at a store in Pinecrest, Fla., Monday, June 26, 2023. A judge has found that an Ohio law prohibiting cities from banning the sale of flavored tobacco products is unconstitutional. The state is expected to appeal the ruling issued Friday by Franklin County Common Pleas Court Judge Mark Serrott. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)

Judge rules Ohio law that keeps cities from banning flavored tobacco is unconstitutional

 
FILE - Nikko Griffin, left, and Tyra Patterson, call out to arriving voters for several issues, including Issue 2, legalizing recreational marijuana, at a parking lot during early in-person voting in Cincinnati, Nov. 2, 2023. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Ohio adult-use marijuana sales approved as part of 2023 ballot measure could begin by mid-June

 
Ohio Governor Mike DeWine gives his 2024 State of the State address in the Ohio House chambers at the Ohio Statehouse on Wednesday, April 10, 2024 in Columbus. (Barbara J. Perenic /The Columbus Dispatch via AP)

Ohio’s DeWine focuses on children in his State of the State address

 

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Republican Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine sports a pair of eclipse glasses while talking to reporters at the Ohio Emergency Operations Center in Columbus, Ohio, on Friday, April 5, 2024. DeWine activated the center on Friday to assist communities before, during and after Monday's total solar eclipse, which could draw hundreds of thousands of tourists to the state. (AP Photo/Julie Carr Smyth)

Emergency operations plan ensures ‘a great day’ for Monday’s eclipse, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine says

Ohio is pulling out all the stops for Monday’s total solar eclipse, as it braces for potentially hundreds of thousands of visitors.
 

Lawsuit says Ohio’s gender-affirming care ban violates the state constitution

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Two families of transgender minors filed a constitutional challenge on Tuesday to an Ohio law that severely limits gender-affirming health care for youth under 18.
 
FILE - Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine speaks during a news conference, Dec. 29, 2023, in Columbus, Ohio. DeWine parted ways with Donald Trump on Monday, March 11, 2024, and endorsed state Sen. Matt Dolan over Trump-backed businessman Bernie Moreno in the state's three-way GOP primary for a U.S. Senate seat. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine bypasses Trump-backed Bernie Moreno for Matt Dolan with US Senate race nod

Republican Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine has parted ways with Donald Trump to endorse state Sen. Matt Dolan over Trump-backed businessman Bernie Moreno in the three-way GOP primary for U.S.
 
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine discusses the final report of a working group on school bus safety Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2024, at the Ohio Department of Public Safety in Columbus, Ohio. (AP Photo/Julie Carr Smyth)

Deadly school bus crash in Ohio yields safety, training guidance — but no seat belt mandate

A task force convened by Republican Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine after a deadly school bus crash is recommending enhanced training for drivers and installing a host of new safety features.
 
Republican Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost speaks at a news conference Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2024, at the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus, Ohio, where he expressed his support for legislation that would allow the state to begin using nitrogen gas to carry out the death penalty. Yost is flanked by the bill's sponsors, state Reps. Phil Plummer, left, and Brian Stewart. (AP Photo/Julie Carr Smyth)

Could Ohio be the next state to use nitrogen gas in executions? A new method would end a 5-year halt

Ohio’s Republican attorney general is backing a legislative effort that would bring nitrogen gas executions to the state to end a yearslong unofficial moratorium on the death penalty.
 

Ohio Legislature puts tobacco control in the state’s hands after governor’s veto

Local governments in Ohio can no longer regulate flavored tobacco in their communities. The Republican Legislature overrode on Wednesday GOP Gov.
 
Protesters advocating for transgender rights and healthcare stand outside of the Ohio Statehouse on Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2024, in Columbus, Ohio. The Republican-dominated Ohio state Senate voted Wednesday to override GOP Gov. Mike DeWine's veto of a gender-affirming care ban for minors and a ban that restricts transgender athletes' participation in girls and women's sports. (AP Photo/Patrick Orsagos)

Ohio bans gender-affirming care and restricts transgender athletes despite GOP governor’s veto

The Republican-dominated Ohio Senate has voted to override GOP Gov. Mike DeWine’s veto of legislation banning gender-affirming care for minors.
 
Ashton Colby is photographed in his apartment in Columbus, Ohio, on Thursday, Jan. 18, 2024. Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine announced proposals this month that transgender advocates say could block access to gender-affirming care provided by independent clinics and general practitioners, leaving thousands of adults scrambling for treatment and facing health risks. Colby, 31, fears the clinic where he gets the testosterone he has taken since age 19 would no longer offer it. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Ohio is on the verge of becoming the 2nd state to restrict gender-affirming care for adults

Ohio’s proposals for gender-affirming care could leave thousands of transgender adults scrambling to find medical providers who would be able to offer hormones and other services they rely on.
 

Ohio House overrides Republican governor’s veto of ban on gender affirming care for minors

The Republican-dominated Ohio House has voted to override GOP Gov. Mike DeWine’s veto of legislation banning gender-affirming care for minors.
 

Ohio governor signs order barring minors from gender-affirming surgery as veto override looms

A week after vetoing a ban on all forms gender affirming care for minors in Ohio, Republican Gov. Mike DeWine has signed an executive order effective immediately barring Ohioans from gender-affirming surgical interventions until they’re 18.
 
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine pauses as he speaks during a news conference, Friday, Dec. 29, 2023, in Columbus, Ohio. DeWine vetoed a measure Friday that would have banned gender-affirming care for minors and transgender athletes’ participation in girls and women’s sports, in a break from members of his party who championed the legislation. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Ohio’s GOP governor vetoes ban on gender-affirming care and transgender athletes in girls’ sports

Republican Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine has broken from his party and vetoed legislation banning all gender-affirming care for minors and transgender athletes’ participation in girls and women’s sports.
 
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine pauses as he speaks during an interview with the Associated Press at The Ohio Governor's Residence in Columbus, Ohio, Thursday, Dec. 21, 2023. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Ohio governor visits hospitals, talks to families as decision on gender-affirming care ban looms

BEXLEY, Ohio (AP) — Republican Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine has been visiting hospitals and speaking with families helped and harmed by gender-affirming care as he decides what action to take on legislation preventing minors from obtaining such treatments, he told The Associated Press in a year-end intervi
 
Organizers including clergy, business owners, social workers and transgender individuals gather in the Ohio Statehouse for a press conference on Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2023 in Columbus, Ohio in opposition to a bill that would ban gender affirming care for minors and ban transgender athletes from participating in girls' and women's sports. The Ohio Republican-led state Senate cleared the measure along party lines Wednesday. (AP Photo/Samantha Hendrickson)

Ohio Senate clears ban on gender-affirming care for minors, transgender athletes in girls sports

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A Republican-backed proposal that would drastically affect how LGBTQ youth in Ohio live their everyday lives cleared the state Senate on Wednesday, despite adamant opposition from parents, medical providers and education professionals who call it cruel and potentially life thre
 
FILE - Marijuana plants grow in the Mother Room at AT-CPC of Ohio, Jan. 28, 2019, in Akron, Ohio. Ohio lawmakers are scrambling to write legislation to enact the will of the voters in last month's overwhelming victory for a ballot measure legalizing recreational marijuana. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak, File)

Adults can now legally possess and grow marijuana in Ohio — but there’s nowhere to buy it

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohioans woke up Thursday in a land of limbo for recreational marijuana use: Adults can now legally grow and possess cannabis at home, but cannot legally buy it.
 

New director gets final approval to lead Ohio’s revamped education department

Ohio’s recently revamped education department has a new director. A state Senate vote Wednesday confirms Steve Dackin as the director of new Department of Education and Workforce.
 
FILE - Ohio Lieutenant Governor Jon Husted, right, speaks beside Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine during a news conference, June 2, 2022, in Avon Lake, Ohio. DeWine and Husted have been drawn into a FirstEnergy Corp. investors lawsuit connected to the $60 million bribery scheme concocted by the energy giant and a now-incarcerated House speaker. (AP Photo/David Richard, File)

Documents of Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine and lieutenant governor subpoenaed in lawsuit over bribery scheme

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio’s governor and lieutenant governor have been drawn into a FirstEnergy Corp. investors lawsuit connected to the $60 million bribery scheme concocted by the Akron-based energy giant and a now-incarcerated House speaker.
 
FILE - Supporters of Issue 1, the Right to Reproductive Freedom amendment, attend a rally held by Ohioans United for Reproductive Rights at the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus, Ohio, Oct. 8, 2023. As campaigning escalates in Ohio's fall fight over abortion rights, a new line of attack from opponents suggests "partial-birth" abortions would be revived if a proposed constitutional amendment passes. (AP Photo/Joe Maiorana, File)

This procedure is banned in the US. Why is it a hot topic in fight over Ohio’s abortion amendment?

Anti-abortion groups seeking to build opposition to a reproductive rights measure in Ohio are messaging heavily around a term for an abortion procedure that hasn’t been legal in the U.S. for over 15 years.
 
FILE - The headquarters of the Ohio Department of Education in downtown Columbus, Ohio, is pictured on Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2023. A Republican-backed overhaul of Ohio’s public education system can continue operating even as a lawsuit claiming it violates the constitution makes its way through the courts, a county magistrate ruled Friday, Oct. 20, 2023. (AP Photo/Julie Carr Smyth, File)

Ohio court OKs GOP-backed education overhaul, says stalling would cause ‘chaos’ as lawsuit continues

A Republican-backed overhaul of Ohio’s public education system can continue operating even as a lawsuit claiming it violates the state constitution makes its way through the courts.
 
The headquarters of the Ohio Department of Education in downtown Columbus, Ohio, is pictured on Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2023. (AP Photo/Julie Carr Smyth)

Future of Ohio’s education system is unclear after judge extends restraining order on K-12 overhaul

The future of Ohio’s public education system hangs in the balance after a judge once again prevented the state from moving forward with a planned GOP-backed overhaul that a group of parents says is unconstitutional.
 
FILE - Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine speaks during a news conference, Feb. 21, 2023, in East Palestine, Ohio. At least part of a Republican-backed overhaul of the Ohio’s K-12 education system will take effect as planned, despite a court order Monday, Oct. 2, delaying the changes after a lawsuit said they violate the constitution. DeWine says that the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce will replace the Ohio Department of Education midnight Tuesday, Oct. 3, and assures that operations like school funding, employee paychecks and other functions will continue. (AP Photo/Matt Freed, File)

Part of Ohio’s GOP-backed K-12 education overhaul will take effect despite court order

At least part of a Republican-backed overhaul of the Ohio’s K-12 education system will take effect as planned, despite a court order Monday delaying the changes after a lawsuit said they violate the constitution.
 

Judge temporarily blocks Republican-backed overhaul of Ohio’s education system following lawsuit

A county judge has granted a temporary restraining order blocking a massive Republican-backed overhaul of Ohio’s K-12 education system.
 
FILE - Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine speaks during a news conference in East Palestine, Ohio, Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2023. A Republican-backed overhaul of how Ohio oversees k-12 education, including decisions on academic standards and school curriculum is unconstitutional, according to a new lawsuit filed Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2023. (AP Photo/Matt Freed, File)

Overhaul of Ohio’s K-12 education system is unconstitutional, new lawsuit says

Seven Ohio school board members are alleging in a new lawsuit that a Republican-backed overhaul of how the state oversees K-12 education violates the state’s constitution.
 
FILE - A map of Ohio congressional districts is displayed during a committee hearing at the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus, Ohio, on Nov. 16, 2021. The Ohio Attorney General's Office has rejected petition language for a constitutional amendment aimed at remaking Ohio’s troubled political-mapmaking system. Republican Dave Yost said Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2023, that the submission, by the group Citizens Not Politicians, failed to present a fair and truthful summary of what is proposed. (AP Photo/Julie Carr Smyth, File)

GOP legislative leaders’ co-chair flap has brought the Ohio Redistricting Commission to a standstill

Ohio’s latest attempt to draw fair political maps has crumbled amid Republican infighting. Gov. Mike DeWine gaveled the reconstituted Ohio Redistricting Commission to order despite the Ohio Senate president and Ohio House speaker, both fellow Republicans, being at an impasse over who the GOP’s co-ch
 

Study of Ohio’s largest rivers shows great improvement since 1980s, officials say

Ohio officials say a first-ever comprehensive study of the state’s largest rivers indicates great improvement in water quality over the past few decades. Gov.
 
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine, surrounded by the over 6,000 pages making up Ohio's $86 million state budget, addresses reporters at a press conference, Wednesday, July 5, 2023, at the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus, Ohio. (AP Photo/Samantha Hendrickson)

Ohio’s $86 billion state budget OK’d by governor, but with vetoes on tobacco regulation and vaccines

Republican Gov. Mike DeWine has cleared Ohio’s $86 billion state budget, signing into law $3 billion in tax cuts and universal school vouchers, among hundreds of others provisions, for the next two fiscal years.
 

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Editorial: Steen vs. DeWine

The long-running battle over investment management of Ohio’s State Teachers Retirement System is now in front of the 10th District Court of Appeals in Columbus.
 
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine, flanked by state lawmakers from both sides of the aisle, signs Ohio's transportation budget into law at the statehouse, Friday, March 31, 2023, in in Columbus, Ohio. The measure includes railway safety provisions in response to February's East Palestine train derailment and toxic chemical spill. (AP Photo/Samantha Hendrickson)

Ohio governor signs rail safety measures into law

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine signed a nearly $13.5 billion state transportation budget Friday, touting new rail safety measures that were included in response to the February train derailment and toxic chemical spill in East Palestine.
 

Speaker: Republican Ohio state Rep. Kris Jordan dead at 46

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Kris Jordan, a Republican who represented Delaware County in the Ohio House of Representatives, has died, the Ohio House speaker announced Saturday.
 
A tank car sits on a trailer as the cleanup of portions of a Norfolk Southern freight train that derailed over a week ago continues in East Palestine, Ohio, Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2023. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

Buttigieg warns Norfolk Southern to support Ohio community

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is warning the CEO of Norfolk Southern that the freight rail company must “demonstrate unequivocal support for the people” of East Palestine, Ohio, and surrounding areas.
 

Norfolk Southern CEO visits East Palestine after derailment

The president of Norfolk Southern made a visit to East Palestine, Ohio, on Saturday following criticism from residents and political leaders about the company’s response to the fiery derailment of a freight train carrying toxic materials earlier this month.
 
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