Two Republican lawmakers advising Ohio’s Democratic governor on changes to the state’s lethal injection process say it shouldn’t be hard to fix the system.

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.

UPDATE: Gov. Ted Strickland talks about Ohio’s H1N1 vaccine plan and whether he will be vaccinated.

Ohio is considering using lethal injections into inmates’ bone marrow or muscles as possible alternatives or back-up measures to the traditional intravenous execution procedure.

It would be easy to assume that Gov. Ted Strickland’s latest budget-balancing tax proposal would face its biggest hurdle in the Republican-led Ohio Senate.

Ohio agencies for the disabled have dropped the term “mental retardation” from their names.

The state plans an immediate appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court of a decision delaying an execution three weeks after problems with a separate lethal injection attempt.

An analysis indicates that the wealthiest Ohioans would account for most of the money Governor Ted Strickland hopes to raise by freezing a planned income tax cut.

The family of a death row inmate in Ohio wants nothing to do with his appeal for clemency.

The Ohio Supreme Court says problems with a recent lethal injection aren’t enough to delay next week’s execution of a man who strangled his 67-year-old neighbor.

Ohio Governor Ted Strickland has proposed freezing income tax cuts to fund education in the wake of a court decision that could halt his plan to put lottery slot machines at racetracks.

A death row inmate has asked the Ohio Supreme Court to delay his upcoming execution in light of problems with the state’s last scheduled lethal injection.

Governor Ted Strickland says he will not be forced into any hasty decisions when it comes to video lottery terminals.

Governor Ted Strickland accompanies Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood on a Tuesday tour of a COTA facility built with federal stimulus dollars.