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The former Ohio lawmaker, who retired in 2012, was a part of the Republican wave in 1994 that swept the GOP into congressional power for the first time in decades. "I am proud to have known and worked with Steve LaTourette.
President Barack Obama on Wednesday commuted the prison sentences of 214 federal inmates - including at least seven Ohioans - most of whom were convicted of drug crimes. A White House spokesman said the number of commutations issued on Wednesday are the most granted in a single day since at least 1900, and brings the total number of commutations issued by Obama to 562 - more than the prior nine presidents combined and more than any individual president in nearly a century.
Scorching July weather may have many in the Ohio Valley deciding between cranking up the air conditioning and keeping electricity bills within reason, but it turns out consumers in West Virginia and Ohio are running at about the middle of the pack, in terms of nationwide energy costs. Financial research firm WalletHub analyzed monthly energy bills in all 50 states, and Washington, D.C., using a formula that considered electricity, natural gas, motor fuel and home heating oil.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks at a rally in Columbus, Ohio, Sunday, July 31, 2016. Clinton and running mate Tim Kaine are on a three-day bus tour through the rust belt.
PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio -- First flown in the 1970s, the Air Force's aging F-15 Eagle could potentially fly into the 2040s, according to a top Air Force official in charge of fighters and bombers. It's another sign that the Air Force may have to keep planes in the air years longer than originally planned while it flies the smallest and oldest fleet in its history.
A Connecticut judge will hear arguments on whether gun maker Remington Arms' company documents should be sealed from public view as it fights a lawsuit filed by families of some of the victims of the 2012 Sandy... Remington Arms and the families of some victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre have agreed that any dispute over the release of company documents in a lawsuit brought by the families and a surviving... Search warrants show investigators found a hidden room outfitted with restraints inside a barn belonging to an Ohio man who's accused of abducting and killing a college student.
Police in Massachusetts are protesting a mayor's refusal to remove a Black Lives Matter banner that's hanging over city hall. About 50 police officers and their supporters upset about a Black Lives Matter banner that has been hanging outside City Hall for nearly a year rallied on Thursday to try to pressure the mayor to remove it.
A glass ceiling is shattering at the Democratic National Convention as Hillary Clinton ascends to the presidential nomination with Tuesday's roll call of the states, making her the first woman to lead a major party into a White House race. But as history is being made, hostility is being heard, too.
After convention, Clinton and Kaine to visit Ohio One of Hillary Clinton's first stops after the Democratic National Convention this week will be - where else - Ohio. Check out this story on cincinnati.com: http://cin.ci/2aaQ1pa Hillary Clinton arrives with Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., at a rally at Florida International University Panther Arena in Miami on July 23, 2016.
Ohio Republicans left the Cleveland convention Friday with mixed feelings about their party's presidential nominee, while saying they will choose him over his Democratic foe. The state delegation received a lot of attention this week because home-state Gov. John Kasich, who won Ohio's GOP presidential primary, refused to endorse Donald Trump and steered clear of the Trump-led convention.
Civil rights activists frustrated by police slayings of blacks across the nation are looking to flex their voting power to push for reforms. The continued alarm over how police treat black men has been a major focus of the five-day NAACP national convention that was wrapping up Wednesday for thousands of participants in Cincinnati.
U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton met with Iowa's delegates to the Republican National Convention here on Tuesday, part of a tour of several early-voting states that raised speculation about the Arkansan's plans for 2020 or 2024. The first-term senator and Army veteran's remarks described Republicans as "America's governing party" - noting their majorities in Congress and in state legislatures across the country - and argued that only the GOP has policies to address the country's economic and national security demands.
A demonstrator takes a picture of the police line during the Shut Down Trump & the RNC protest on Sunday, July 17, 2016, in Cleveland. The Republican National Convention starts Monday.
While Donald Trump supporters and protesters held demonstrations in downtown Cleveland on Monday, there were few arrests and not much conflict between the groups on the first day of the Republican National Convention.a Demonstrators protesting against Donald Trump march through the streets of downtown Cleveland, Ohio, during the Republican National Convention on July 18, 2016. Sondos Mishal, 17, of Akron, Ohio, attended an anti-Trump demonstration at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, on July 18, 2016, to show people that Muslims are not the "monsters" Trump portrays them as.
There is no shortage of action inside the convention hall as anti-Trump delegates work to cause mischief behind the scenes. A steady stream of speakers has already been featured at the podium.
Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton blasted Hillary Clinton as a "socialist" who's only running for president so she can "pardon herself" in the investigations surrounding her use of a private email server. At an Ohio delegation breakfast during the Republican National Convention in Cleveland on Monday, Cotton began his speech by tracking the success of the Republican Party in recent years, noting its majorities in Congress and the state offices the party has won.
Ohio Republican Sen. Rob Portman and his re-election team have been beating the bushes and sifting through reams of data for more than a year. Republicans say Trump needs to take a page from Portman's playbook, and they worry that Trump's flyby approach to one of the most important states on the electoral map won't give him the edge he needs over Democrat Hillary Clinton, who already has a strong Ohio operation.
In this Feb. 6, 2016, file photo, Ohio Gov. John Kasich, left, and Donald Trump, right, speak to reporters after a Republican presidential primary debate hosted by ABC News at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, N.H. While Trump is bypassing the NAACP national convention taking place in Cincinnati from Saturday to Wednesday, July 16 to 20, a Kasich spokeswoman confirmed Friday, July 15, 2016, that the governor will speak to the NAACP on Sunday, July 17 a day before Hillary Clinton's speech to the NAACP and the start of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland.