Mental health professionals say stress related to layoffs in southwest Ohio’s Clinton County is hitting women especially hard because they tend to be the family caretakers. 

An Ohio sheriff who abruptly closed a jail and transferred more than 200 inmates says the move could save hundreds of thousands of dollars by year’s end.

Economically hard-hit Ohio could get a boost in the electric-car business with government-backed lithium-ion battery materials production.

Ohioans are increasingly turning to food stamps to make ends meet as the state’s economy worsens. 

A group that represents county commissioners from across Ohio wants state legislators to make it easier for counties to use seized assets from drug cases to pay for essential services in a time of widespread budget cuts.

A growing number of people are seeking help with burial and cremation costs as the recession triggers rocks family budgets. 

A national trade group is asking Ohio leaders to change the state’s taxes to attract wind energy developers and compete with neighboring states, where such energy projects would pay lower taxes. 

Two children were killed in a fire last Friday, and locals are concerned more firefighters could be cut, putting the community’s safety in jeopardy.

The slumping economy is forcing student pilots in North America to put their dreams of flying on hold, a trend that is placing a financial chokehold on flight schools. 

A key tax change that is expected to reduce state revenue isn’t included in an already optimistic revenue forecast the Ohio House used to justify additional spending in the two-year state budget that members approved in a party-line vote Wednesday.

Members of the United Auto Workers union at a Chrysler plant in northeast Ohio have voted in favor of contract modifications that might help keep the plant open.

GETTING ANSWERS: Central Ohio Pontiac dealers say there’s no need to worry about parts and service for your vehicle.

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.

A local doctor says more of his patients are getting cosmetic surgery in hopes of getting hired.

Honda employees begin accept buyout offers Wednesday.