Fairfield County Commissioners voted on Friday to increase the sales tax to six and a half percent.

Consumer groups say proposed legislation would be bad for everyone with a landline.

As Gov. Ted Strickland was calling on Ohio’s embattled attorney general to step down amid sexual harassment allegations last year, another harassment scandal was brewing in one of his own state agencies.

A “rogue employee” for a group tied to Ohio’s pro-casino effort was indicted by a grand jury Wednesday on charges that he forged applications for absentee ballots, a prosecutor said.

The Ohio House is moving quickly toward approving a delay in planned income tax reductions, but the Senate plans to slow it down, study alternatives and possibly propose something else to fill a budget hole.

Former Ohio State quarterback Art Schlichter says a November ballot proposal to build casinos is bad for the state.

Booksellers, video game dealers, newspaper publishers and other critics of an Ohio online child protection law have encountered skepticism from the state Supreme Court.

On a party-line vote, an Ohio House committee has approved a delay in the last-round of a five-year income tax reduction.

Democrats who control the Ohio House decided they needed a sweetener to gain public support behind their tax plan to erase a $850 million budget gap.

Efforts to improve Ohio’s elections hang in the balance as the state House and Senate struggle to work together as an election year approaches.

Backers of a casino proposal on the fall ballot are counting on Ohio’s abysmal economy to shift the winds in one of the nation’s most stubborn antigambling states.

House Speaker Armond Budish said Friday he agrees with the governor’s plan to suspend the final year of a planned 4.2 percent income tax cut, a move that would help fill a $850 million budget hole.

Supporters and opponents gear up for the last two weeks before Election Day in the South-Western City School District.

The Reynoldsburg City School District has 19 more days to get out the vote for its 9.9-mill operating levy.

A national canvassing group has resigned from a pro-casino ballot campaign in Ohio after turning over evidence of alleged fraud by a temporary employee.

A mayor has vetoed a proposal that would have required a city council in Ohio to start meetings with a prayer.

The state Bureau of Workers’ Compensation will determine how much a one-time top aide to former Attorney General Marc Dann should pay for attempted workers’ compensation fraud.

Less than three weeks before Election Day, the two sides in the Issue 3 debate are working to convince voters of the impact casinos would have on Ohio.

A prosecutor says an investigation of questionable absentee ballot applications has led to a raid on the Cincinnati office of a pro-casino group.

Residents and district officials meet to talk about Issue 47 and possible pay-to-play sports and activities.

President Barack Obama wins the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize for “his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between people.“

Fairfield County is proposing a sales tax hike, which may take effect by the first of the year.

Ohio lawmakers do not appear to be hurrying to balance the state budget. After a State Supreme Court ruling forced Governor Ted Strickland to find an alternative to his plan to make money by putting video slot machines at race tracks, Strickland said Wednesday he prefers delaying a 4.2 percent income tax cut for 2009.

The world’s largest garbage collector could shutdown its Central Ohio waste-transfer site as an agreement with SWACO expires.

City council decides sidewalks will be installed along a portion of South High Street on the city’s South Side.

Yard-waste pick up won’t be restored until next spring, but residents have a new option.

City council approves Ohio State’s plan to build a women’s rowing boathouse in a city park.

The second largest school district in the area is going to the polls again in November to try for the 4th time to get a levy passed.

Ohio’s lowest paid workers won’t be up for a raise next year.

Residents question whether Columbus is coming through with its Issue 1 promises.