A year after the fight to save Chillicothe’s paper mill, workers are getting some money
About 570 former employees will get an average of $2,000 each in severance payments. A former union leader cautioned that the rest of the $5.5 million pledged by the mill’s former owner may not materialize.
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Election 2026
The voter registration deadline for Ohio’s May primary is approaching. Here’s what to know
Ohio’s May 5 primary election is weeks away. Here’s what voters need to know about registration deadlines, early voting and new mail ballot rules.
These educators were fed up. Democrats recruited them to run for the Statehouse
Democrats have recruited public school educators to run for key Ohio legislative seats. We talked with them — and a Republican teacher running, too.
Ohio disqualifies Libertarian U.S. Senate candidate
State Libertarians challenged Jeffrey Kanter’s candidacy in a high-stakes Senate race featuring Republican Jon Husted and Democrat Sherrod Brown.
GOVERNMENT
Ex-FirstEnergy executives’ bribery case ends in hung jury
The decision Tuesday, on the jurors’ eighth full day of deliberations, makes for a shocking and unresolved outcome in a scandal that has dogged Ohio politics since the first FBI arrests in July 2020.
EDUCATION
Getting adult students back to college is hard. Here’s what one Ohio program learned
The ‘Ohio College Comeback Compact’ helped adults who had completed some college courses but never earned a degree or credential get back into a classroom.
HEALTH
Recovery homes face tighter rules under bill advanced by Ohio House
If approved by the Senate, the bill would require state certification for recovery homes and strengthen local enforcement tools.
STATE SIGNALS NEWSLETTER
Ohio Republican legislators serve up red meat ahead of May primary election
Ohio politics news and insight from the State Signals newsletter. Plus, the FirstEnergy trial in Akron has stalled.
PUBLIC SAFETY
Up in smoke: Ohio rolls back some weed and hemp laws and adds new restrictions
There are new rules for transporting marijuana and edibles and restrictions on what can be sold and how potent it can be.
NEWS FROM NOTUS
Rep. Dave Taylor sold skyrocketing oil stocks as Iran war raged
The Republican congressman sold shares of Chevron and Marathon Petroleum in March.
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