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Ann Sanner Associated Press COLUMBUS: Ohio senators want to strip wording from the state budget that closely mirrors provisions affecting teachers' pay already contained in the state's contentious new collective bargaining law. The revision is among a host of proposed adjustments to the budget that Senate leadership announced Tuesday. The House-passed budget bill would base [...]

Associated Press COLUMBUS: A new poll finds most Ohio voters would dump the state's new law that limits bargaining by public employees and bars them from striking. In the Quinnipiac University survey released Wednesday, 54 percent say the law should be repealed, 36 percent say it should be kept. Also, 58 percent oppose banning all [...]

Associated Press COLUMBUS: Gov. John Kasich says the Ohio Statehouse should have more security, including metal detectors for visitors to pass through. The governor told reporters on Thursday that families, kids and school groups visit the Capitol in Columbus and he wouldn't want "something to happen." He was responding to a question about whether state [...]

Ann Sanner Associated Press COLUMBUS: An Ohio House panel is poised to make additional changes to its $55.6 billion state budget proposal, and then likely vote to send it to the full Republican-led House. The House Finance and Appropriations Committee planned to meet Tuesday to debate changes to the two-year spending plan. Gov. John Kasich's [...]

Associated Press COLUMBUS: Ohio politicians are hailing the killing of Osama bin Laden by U.S. forces in Pakistan. The state's senior U.S. senator calls the death of the al-Qaida leader a victory for all Americans. Democrat Sherrod Brown says in a statement that the world's most wanted terrorist and architect of the Sept. 11 attacks [...]

By Stephanie Warsmith Beacon Journal staff writer About one in four sex offenders in Summit County has been caught out-of-compliance with registration requirements during checks by sheriff's deputies. These sweeps might stop if the cuts to local government funds proposed in the state budget stand, Summit County Sheriff Drew Alexander said Thursday. Alexander said the [...]

By Paula Schleis Beacon Journal staff writer TALLMADGE: Hoping to avoid a repeat of the bizarre political twists that occurred after the city's mayor resigned last year, a Charter Review Commission has proposed changes on how elected officials are replaced. The 11-member commission — formed once a decade to identify problems in the city charter [...]