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COLUMBUS – What started with an anti-John Kasich radio ad descended into a Twitter spat Monday as Rep. Bill Johnson continues to bank on the former governors waning popularity with conservatives.  Johnson, a Marietta Republican who is mulling a U.S. Senate bid, recently launched a radio ad, saying Kasich wanted to pick the next senator by consulting Wall Street tycoons and Big Tech elites. "The last time I heard from John Kasich, he was speaking to another group of elitists: the Democra...

Date Time OSU releasing winter series of music, spoken word mini-concerts that call for action on extinction CORVALLIS, Ore. – Oregon State University is publishing 20 four-minute concerts that weave together music and the spoken word to celebrate the creatures that fill the air with sound – frogs, wolves, songbirds, growling grizzly bears – and inspire action to save them. Videos in the “Music to Save Earth’s Songs” series will be posted online at 6 p.m. on Mondays and Thursdays th...

Good friends and a strong operation gave the team of Ed and Ashleigh Hensley an opportunity to present themselves on the nation’s highest stage and earn their first shot at one of the country’s top racing honours. Husband Ed, a California kid who has held tack at racetracks all across North America; and wife Ashleigh, a native of Manitoba and sister to Travis Cullen, have managed the Hensley operation on both sides of the border for nearly the last decade. Nowadays the two are the sole work...

Ohio Republicans Hope to Fill Portman’s Senate Seat while Avoiding Trump Civil War Ryan Mills © Al Drago/Reuters Senator Rob Portman (R., Ohio) arrives for a vote in the basement of the Capitol in Washington, D.C., January 26, 2021. Congressman Jim Jordan: Out. Lieutenant Governor Jon Husted: Out. As Ohioans begin to contemplate who will replace Rob Portman in the U.S. Senate next year, some of the biggest names in Buckeye State Republican politics are bowing out early, cre...

COLUMBUS – After four-and-a-half years of red "Make America Great Again" caps, raucous rallies and news-making tweets, the Republican party no longer belongs to former President Donald Trump. As Trump moves out of the White House, Ohio Republicans are left to decide whether their embrace of Trump will persist in a state he dominated twice. What policies will they cling to and which rhetoric will they ditch?  Those decisions will reverberate throughout the Buckeye State in the coming year...

WOOSTER The second attempt to develop a residential subdivision on a parcel of farmland on Melrose Drive suffered a setback when the Wooster Planning Commission voted 4-2 against recommending the project’s rezoning to City Council. Lemmon Development, a North Canton-based construction firm, is seeking rezoning of the 22-acre plot at 4677 Melrose Drive from R-1 single family residential to R-3 attached housing for a planned 152-unit single story apartment complex. At the Jan. 7 meeting, Plann...

Submitted photo John Manzo, senior pastor at St. Mark’s United Church of Christ in New Albany, leads a virtual service on Facebook Live in this screenshot. SOUTHERN INDIANA — The COVID-19 pandemic has altered the holiday season at local churches during one of the busiest times of year, whether the churches are offering in-person or virtual Christmas services. The News and Tribune spoke with several church leaders in Southern Indiana to discuss how they have adapted their Christmas ser...

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ASHLAND -- On Thursday, the Ohio Supreme Court unanimously upheld the conviction and death sentence for Shawn Grate in the murder of two Ashland women.  Grate, convicted of killing five women in Ashland and elsewhere, was sentenced in 2018 to death and a minimum of 90 years to life in prison for the local murders of Stacey Stanley and Elizabeth Griffith. He was later additionally sentenced to life in prison without parole in Richland County for the murders of two Mansfield women and again in...

>> there are people who disagree with that. >> oh, sure. >> but as dasseys attorneys delved further into those stunning statements the team made, they came to believe something more disturbing, that investigators tom fassbender and mark weaver had coerced the teen into making a false confession. >> these officers took advantage of a disabled youth and got him to say what they wanted him to say. >> dont lie to us now, okay? >> youre hurting yourself if you lie now. >> hes got severe learning disa...