NBC 4’s Tanya Hutchins talks with one school’s employees about the impending cuts.

District leaders said cutting nine positions will save the district $470,000. NBC 4 reports on who is being given pink slips in an effort to balance the budget.

State officials have informed union members that Ohio’s prison system plans to lay off 41 employees and eliminate 118 vacant positions.

Today at the Reynoldsburg United Methodist Church you can receive a hair cut for free…in exchange for a food donation for Helping Hand Food Pantry. 

Laid-off deputies working for free are helping an Ohio sheriff’s office keep running despite budget cuts.  Retired police officers are also volunteering, often for more than 40 hours a week. 

The fire department in Mansfield is making cuts because of dwindling money. 

Hundreds of Ohioans came out to the Statehouse Thursday to rally against Strickland’s decision to cut $227 million in funding for Ohio’s libraries.

Libraries across Ohio are scrambling as Governor Ted Strickland proposes a more than 50 percent cut for state library funding.

Lobbyists for Ohio’s public libraries say Gov. Ted Strickland’s latest round of proposed spending cuts would dramatically hurt library patrons. 

City Year leaders vow to save community service programs that help Columbus City Schools.

Supporters of the Ohio Historical Society, concerned about proposed budget cuts, staged protests Tuesday aiming to pressure lawmakers to restore funding.

The Ohio Senate Finance Committee has begun hearings on its pared down version of the state’s proposed two-year budget. 

A unanimous Thursday vote to put an 8.3-mill levy on the August ballot set the table for a second and final vote Monday.

With some school districts eliminating extra-curriculars, including sports, many parents are worried what their kids will do without a chance at a college scholarship.

Strickland has called on state agencies to stop contract work, limit the purchase of supplies and reevaluate travel for the remainder of the fiscal year.