By JULIE CARR SMYTH and GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Transgender students from kindergarten through college at Ohio public and private schools will be banned from using multiperson bathrooms that fit their gender identities under a measure that Republican Gov. ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Democratic U.S. Rep. Marcy Kaptur's Trump-endorsed rival said he called the veteran Ohio congresswoman to concede defeat in the 2024 election. In a video posted to X, formerly Twitter, fourth-term state Rep. Derek Merrin did not rule out running for Kaptur's seat again ...

By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — JD Vance's election as vice president has opened up one of Ohio's U.S. Senate seats for the third time in as many years, setting off a scramble for the appointment among the state's ruling Republicans. GOP Gov. Mike DeWine is ...

By JILL COLVIN and STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — After several weeks working mostly behind closed doors, Vice President-elect JD Vance returned to Capitol Hill this week in a new, more visible role: Helping Donald Trump try to get his most contentious Cabinet picks ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — JD Vance's election as vice president has opened up one of Ohio's U.S. Senate seats for the third time in as many years, setting off a scramble for the appointment among the state's ruling Republicans. GOP Gov. Mike DeWine is tasked with filling the vacancy, giving the ...

By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Republican Jason Stephens, who has presided for the past two years over one of the most tumultuous periods in recent Ohio House history, said Monday that he will not seek another term as speaker. Stephens, 53, announced his ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Republican Jason Stephens, who has presided for the past two years over one of the most tumultuous periods in recent Ohio House history, said Monday that he will not seek another term as speaker. Stephens, 53, announced his decision during a Statehouse news conference ...

By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Around the country, advocates for Christian education have been finding legal ways to tap taxpayer money used more typically for public schools. One new approach in Ohio is benefiting schools tied to a burgeoning conservative ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin will kick off a fundraising campaign on Thursday for a monument to women's suffrage being planned in Ohio. "An Evening With Doris Kearns Goodwin" will take place in the Ohio Statehouse atrium. Megan Wood, CEO and ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The Ohio Senate on Wednesday approved a ban on transgender students using bathrooms that fit their gender identities and sent the measure to Republican Gov. Mike DeWine. The Republican-backed bill applies to public K-12 schools and institutions of higher education. It ...

By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Democrats won a key congressional seat and were defending two others in tight races in Ohio. Twenty-one-term U.S. Rep. Marcy Kaptur, the longest-serving woman in House history, claimed victory over state Rep. Derek Merrin early ...

By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio voters rejected a constitutional amendment Tuesday that would have established a citizen-led redistricting commission to replace an existing mapmaking system that repeatedly produced unconstitutional maps. The outcome ...

By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Republicans prevailed Tuesday in a must-win Senate race in Ohio, as Trump-backed Cleveland businessman Bernie Moreno defeated Democratic U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown to help shift control of the chamber to the GOP. With spending that ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrat Greg Landsman wins reelection to U.S. House in Ohio's 1st Congressional District.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio voters will decide Tuesday whether they want to set up a citizen-led redistricting commission to replace the state's troubled political mapmaking system. The proposed amendment, advanced by a robust bipartisan coalition called Citizens Not Politicians, calls for ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Democrats are defending three key congressional seats in Ohio on Tuesday, with control of the chamber in play. Republicans' primary target is 21-term U.S. Rep. Marcy Kaptur, the longest-serving woman in House history. She is facing state Rep. Derek Merrin, a Republican ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Three-term Democratic U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio faces perhaps the toughest reelection challenge of his career Tuesday in the most expensive Senate race of the year as control of the chamber hangs in the balance. Brown, 71, one of Ohio's best known and longest ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Votes cast for Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein in Ohio will not be counted despite her name appearing on the state's ballot in Tuesday's election after an appeals court panel denied her motion seeking to force the election chief to tally them. The ...

CANTON, Ohio (AP) — Prosecutors in Ohio have announced reckless homicide charges against two police officers in the death of a man who was handcuffed and left face down on the floor of a social club in Canton while telling officers he couldn't breathe. Stark County prosecutor Kyle Stone told ...

Associated Press undefined COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Votes cast for Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein in Ohio will not be counted despite her name appearing on the state's ballot in Tuesday's election after an appeals court panel denied her motion seeking to force the election ...