Walsh University dedicated its IBEW 1985 Labor Museum and MakerSpace Thursday in the former headquarters of the union.

U.S. Rep. Tim Ryan of Howland, D-13th, and four elected officials from Ohio and Michigan formally invited President Donald J. Trump to visit communities impacted by the idling of General Motors North American plants, including the Lordstown Assembly complex.

CLEVELAND, Ohio - Gambling revenue at Ohio’s casinos and racinos increased last month with the MGM Properties-owned Hard Rock Rocksino Northfield Park again leading the way.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — State election regulators in Ohio delivered a blow to two minor parties on Thursday, dismissing complaints that alleged three debates this year that excluded their candidates for governor represented illegal corporate contributions.

With a mandatory recount over, a local party leader says the narrow outcome of an Ohio House race might have been reversed if not for a late attack against Democrat Dan Foley in a television ad by an outside Republican group.

Donald Trump secretly authorized his longtime lawyer Michael Cohen to try to arrange a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in New York just three months after Trump had announced his White House bid, according to new disclosures from special counsel Robert S. Mueller III on Friday.

Democrat Dan McCready withdrew his concession Thursday in a North Carolina congressional race that has been roiled by accusations of fraud.

CLEVELAND, Ohio - Republican Mike DeWine’s margin over Democrat Richard Cordray narrowed some in the official results for the 2018 governor’s race announced Friday, but he still won comfortably in what was the largest turnout ever for an Ohio governor’s race.

The Whitehall police Narcotics Unit, with assistance from Columbus police, executed a search warrant for narcotics trafficking on a home in the 800 block of Ruby Avenue on the East Side. There were 18 people found inside the house.

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Amid the stunning revelations contained in the U.S. Marshals Service’s 52-page report that described “inhumane” conditions at the Cuyahoga County Jail, no single employee comes across as bad as warden Eric Ivey.

Some City of Cincinnati leaders are considering decriminalizing marijuana.

TALLMADGE — The Tallmadge City School District has scheduled a community meeting at 6 p.m. Monday at Tallmadge High School to generate feedback on how the district should move forward following the failure of a 7.4 mill operating levy Nov. 6.

AultCare’s Outreach Services team recently recognized The Counselor Cafe for its work in local schools and also spread the health organization’s “You Matter” message.

Thanks to a $2 million anonymous donation to Seton High School, construction of a new student center and outdoor learning space will begin next year.

HEBRON - The Lakewood Board of Education approved raises for Lakewood teachers, the treasurers and superintendent.

CANTON, Ohio (AP) — Several landowners along northeast Ohio’s NEXUS gas pipeline are suing the pipeline’s owner and its construction company, saying the companies broke agreements.

I intended for today’s column to be a pretty routine check-up for those of us who have been on the Dominion Energy Ohio Standard Choice Offer or SCO for our natural gas for quite some time.

AKRON, Ohio – The city’s service department announced last week that it would no longer accept glass in recycling bins, attributing the change to Waste Management Ohio, whose market for recycled glass had reportedly disappeared.

Dayton Power and Light’s next chief executive will take over a power company that has greatly changed in past years with workforce and business restructuring.

Discussions over an appeal filed by Brookfield residents who seek to reverse the state’s authorization for a company to begin operating one of its injection wells will likely happen after the start of the new year.

The Pickaway County General Health District plans to ask voters to approve a property-tax levy to help support and expand its programs.

COLUMBUS — Ohio’s online portal through which patients may register through their doctors to use medical marijuana quietly went live Monday, and state officials said medicinal pot products should be available for patient use within 60 days.

A addiction-treatment program in Mansfield owes nearly $11 million to Ohio’s tax-funded Medicaid program for services that it failed to substantiate or that were not eligible for reimbursement, a state audit found.

Ohio State football coach Urban Meyer announced Tuesday he is leaving the program next month because of an arachnoid cyst that has gotten worse this year.

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Midwest CannaWomen, a Cleveland-based non-profit which works to help women become more involved in the state’s medical marijuana industry, will host a screening of the film “Mary Jane: The Women of Weed” here next week.

The Republican-dominated Ohio Senate delayed Thursday voting on a bill to ban abortions once a fetal heartbeat can be detected, making it almost certain the “Heartbeat Bill” will not pass this year.

Ohio has recorded a small decrease in the number of infants who died before their first birthday, to 982 in 2017 from 1,024 the previous year.

ProMedica group physicians say they have not had a rate increase from Aetna in six years, an issue that has ProMedica on the cusp of terminating its contract with the giant health insurer and making coverage unavailable to about 28,000 ProMedica patients.

During a lengthy career as a teacher, principal, central-office administrator and ultimately a district superintendent, Keith Bell often preached to students that learning is a lifelong pursuit.

KENT — Kent State University will no longer charge student groups security fees for events, according to documents filed in federal court this week.

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (AP) — Youngstown State University’s trustees and its president have agreed to extend his contract through June 2020.

Despite the frigid weather and dreary, gray skies Friday afternoon, a group of Youngstown State University students erupted with glee when YSU President Jim Tressel revealed the latest dining addition to the campus – a Chipotle restaurant.

CLEVELAND, Ohio — A Painesville man in the United States illegally was sentenced to house arrest, the latest development for a man who found himself at the center of an ongoing power struggle between a federal judge and the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

Summit County Common Pleas Probate Judge Elinore Marsh Stormer was honored Friday by Direction Home Akron Canton Area Agency on Aging & Disabilities as this year’s recipient of the Harvey L. Sterns Lifetime Achievement Award.

Summit County Common Pleas Judge Jay Wells — who is leaving office at year’s end — must decide whether to sentence Hedy Moss before he passes the gavel.

CLEVELAND, Ohio - Former Cuyahoga County official Eddy Kraus appeared Friday before a Cuyahoga County grand jury that is investigating possible corruption in the administration of County Executive Armond Budish.

STOW — Despite a lack of response from developers, the city’s new mayor says he is undeterred in his vision to create a downtown Stow.

When Cincinnati city workers got raises in each of the past three years, they got more than a bump in their paychecks.

Michelle Niedermier has been named the new director of Montgomery County Job & Family Services. Currently Lucas County JFS Director, she begins her new role with Montgomery County on Dec. 17.

HUDSON — While residents will not be asked to vote on a property tax levy to help pay for high-speed internet service, City Council has tasked a committee with developing a business plan for providing citywide fiber to the home. The city now offers high-speed internet service to businesses through its Velocity Broadband program.

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Cuyahoga County Council President Dan Brady, Councilman Michael Gallagher and two members of council staff have been subpoenaed to testify before a Cuyahoga County grand jury.

Col. Dan Sarachene, who announced Friday his time as commander of the 910th Airlift Wing will end in February, brought Youngstown/Warren Regional Chamber members up to date on efforts to preserve the wing.

Fundraising events organized by nonprofit groups not related to the arts, including the All American Quarter Horse Congress and the Columbus Chamber of Commerce, would be exempt from proposed ticket-tax legislation that’s scheduled for a final vote Monday by the Columbus City Council.

AKRON, Ohio - The Akron Community Foundation has announced more than $2.3 million in grants and distributions, including 27 first-ever capital grants totaling $250,000.

Bill’s future unclear: A Senate committee delayed voting on the controversial “heartbeat” abortion bill. Cleveland.com’s Laura Hancock writes that this may throw into question whether the bill will become law.

If you’re an elitist, Ohio House Joint Resolution 19 should be your cup of tea. HJR 19, backed by the Ohio General Assembly’s Republican leaders, would make it harder for rank-and-file Ohioans to amend the state constitution.

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is inching closer to his long-teased major White House shake-up, gearing up for the twin challenges of battling for re-election and dealing with the Democrats' investigations once they take control of the House.

COLUMBUS – Even after Ohio lawmakers removed “stand your ground” language from a gun bill passed Thursday, Ohio Gov. John Kasich finds the final proposal difficult to support.

Governor-elect Mike DeWine will speak in Akron next month.

Cincinnati's Brigid Kelly pulled off a near miracle for a Statehouse Democrat this week.

WASHINGTON — House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi on Thursday rejected the idea of paying for President Donald Trump’s border wall in exchange for helping hundreds of thousands of young immigrants avoid deportation.

John F. Kelly, the retired four-star Marine general who became President Trump's second chief of staff, will be leaving that post by month’s end after struggling for a year and a half to bring order to a White House beset by chaos thanks to the president’s impetuous behavior — and occasionally Kelly's own.

WASHINGTON — John F. Kelly, the retired Marine general tapped as chief of staff by President Trump last year to bring order to his chaotic White House, will leave the job by the end of the year, Mr. Trump said on Saturday, the latest departure from the president’s inner circle after a bruising midterm election for his party.

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Looking at President Trump's facial expressions and body language I couldn't avoid wondering what he was thinking as he listened to the eulogies for former President George H.W. Bush. #Awkward!

President Trump said Saturday that White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly will leave his post by the end of the year, capping the retired Marine general’s rocky tenure as the president’s top aide and marking another personnel change in a White House dominated by departures.

Sen. Rob Portman predicted Friday the Senate will confirm William Barr as attorney general, replacing Jeff Sessions who was fired last month by President Donald Trump.

WASHINGTON — To a president who likes his aides to have a certain kind of central-casting mien, Nick Ayers definitely looks the part.

AKRON, Ohio – The city of Akron has given homeless advocate Sage Lewis 30 days to comply with the city’s zoning code and dismantle a tent encampment on Lewis’s property in the Middlebury neighborhood.

Akron has given a homeless tent city until early January to shut down.

When it comes to safe cities, a new report from WalletHub shows Ohio cities looking up at other large cities across the U.S.

More than two dozen area police departments have their fingers crossed this week.

NEWARK - Starting in 2017, unpaid bills for emergency medical services provided by the Newark Fire Department were turned into a collections agency for the first time since the city began billing in 2007.

Free wireless internet access will be available along the entire streetcar loop in Cincinnati within a year, officials said Friday.

CANTON — Adone “Cal” Calderone recalls the details like it was yesterday.