Ohio lawmakers are hoping a little extra money will convince college graduates to stay and buy a house in the Buckeye State.

Talk about long-distance romance: a male koala from France has arrived to mate with two females at the zoo in Cleveland.

The county in Ohio’s northwest corner continues to lead the state in unemployment.

A growing number of northwest Ohio school districts with migrant education now offer a program that allows teachers to put their classrooms on wheels to help students at nights and on weekends.

Ohio executes a man who took part in a 1992 Christmas holiday killing spree that left six people dead and two wounded.

A city council member in Cincinnati is backing off a proposal to have panhandlers obtain permits and pay a tax on what they collect.

A wide range of job losses has pushed Ohio unemployment higher for the seventh month in a row, to 11.1 percent in June.

Gov. Ted Strickland says he will not show mercy to a man scheduled to be executed in Ohio on Tuesday for his part in the killings of five people in Dayton in 1992.

The signatures of dead voters are showing up on petitions aimed at putting a plan for four casinos on the November ballot in Ohio.

Investigators are trying to determine if a man whose body was discovered in a golf course pond tried to pull off a carjacking on the Ohio Turnpike.

A federal appeals court panel has refused to delay the Ohio execution of a multi-state killer who is scheduled to be executed Tuesday.

Strong storms move through Central Ohio, leaving damaged homes, trees and power lines behind.

Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland has denied clemency to a man sentenced to die next week for a deadly shooting during a multistate killing rampage in 1991.

Officials say the number of Ohioans paying state taxes by credit card rose nearly 50 percent in three years.

Authorities say they’ve broken up a drug ring linked to Russian organized crime that smuggled as much as $27 million worth of marijuana through New York’s St. Regis Mohawk Reservation to the Cleveland area over the past three years.