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The base of operations for Ohio's and Indiana's joint effort to win a test site for unmanned drone aircraft will be based in Springfield. 

The Columbus City Schools are taking steps to address the issue of grade-reading readiness, and to come into compliance with the state's third grade reading guarantee.

A central Ohio day care worker is denying accusations that she sprinkled drugs on snacks to get children in her day care to sleep during the day.

A radioactive steam leak in the plumbing of the reactor cooling system is causing a short-term shutdown of the Perry nuclear power plant east near Cleveland. For Ohio Public Radio, WKSU's Tim Rudell reports that the problem started over the weekend. 

Military veterans eligible to claim Ohio bonuses of up to $1,500 are running out of time.

As two controversial bills backed by abortion opponents make their way through the state budget process, there’s a new, free standing bill in the Ohio legislature that would put new limits on and enact new rules for abortions performed in the state.

Ohio Attorney General Mike Dewine says his office has received more than a dozen reports since January. Ohioans have reported losing an average of about $1,000 to the scams.

Columbus police are seeking any video that may have been taken of a shooting at a weekend festival that wounded an 11-year-old boy.

As advocates and Gov. John Kasich continue to hope lawmakers will consider Medicaid expansion, a group of lawmakers from both parties have introduced a bill they say will reform the government insurance program for low-income people.

Republican National Committee Chair Reince Priebus is meeting with African-American leaders in Cleveland today as part of an effort to expand party membership among minority groups that have been voting Democratic.

Parents of special-needs children are upset with a new policy at Kings Island amusement park in Mason.

An Ohioan who wore a bracelet engraved with the name of a prisoner of war from Vietnam is returning it today, on the 48th anniversary of his capture.

New U.S. Census Bureau figures show Ohio’s population continues to hold steady.

A former Ohio Supreme Court justice who mostly sided with the majority in death penalty cases says she now opposes capital punishment.

A jury has found the last of five suspects in a failed plot  to bomb a bridge over the Cuayhoga Valley National Park guilty on all counts. 

With the federal health insurance plan taking effect soon, there are a lot of cost projections being tossed around by state officials.

Cuayhoga County is following the lead of officials in Franklin and other counties by offering veterans identification cards to help them claim benefits.

Columbus police say they have arrested the teenager who allegedly attacked a social worker and stole her car.

Ohio police officers are scheduled to attend a briefing at the Columbus Police Academy today on ways to fight organized retail crime such as large-scale shoplifting rings.

A Columbus man will serve an additional seven years in prison for the death of a woman he assaulted in 1998.