Gov. Mike DeWine on Tuesday revealed his stance on the death penalty, ruffling the feathers of many Ohio Republicans in the process.
“I believe Ohio should abolish the death penalty. The Legislature could take this action, and I think they should take this action,” the governor said during a press conference.
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Amid federal scrutiny and concerns about commercial driver’s licenses being in the hands of unqualified drivers, Ohio is cracking down on CDLs for those drivers not born in the United States. The CDLs of 1,200 foreign-born drivers will be downgraded to a Class D by the state for failing to adequately meet standards proving they are in the United States legally.
Ohio Department of Public Safety spokesman Bret Crow confirmed the downgrade to The Center Square last week. “Those receiving this notice who believe their documents do meet the updated federal standards may request a hearing with the Bureau of Motor Vehicles to dispute the downgrade and/or submit additional documentation to BMV to prove their eligibility,” he said.
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The University of Notre Dame says it cannot find any American to teach English and so it must fill the job with a foreign worker visa.
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The Ohio State University said Wednesday it has reached a $100 million settlement with all but one of the 280 former students who claimed a campus doctor sexually assaulted them decades ago.
The settlement marks a significant step toward ending the eight-year legal battle over allegations that the school had been aware of hundreds of claims that Dr. Richard Strauss, who committed suicide in 2005, sexually assaulted primarily male athletes in the mid-1970s to 1990s and did nothing.
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As he seeks a comeback, former Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, spoke with CNN about what another term of his would look like, sparking chatter about his stance on Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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In the wake of a recent investigative report from The Daily Wire’s Luke Rosiak on suspected Medicaid fraud in Columbus, Ohio, Republicans held a press conference on Tuesday to lay out their plans for tackling the issue. Rosiak also spoke, discussing his findings.
As Rosiak recapped, Ohio has home health centers, a program allowing people to get paid for offering “companionship,” with the Medicaid beneficiaries often being their own relatives.
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The 10th District Court of Appeals this week heard arguments regarding Ohio’s school voucher program, EdChoice, and will decide whether to uphold a judge’s ruling that the program is unconstitutional.
A decision from Common Pleas Court Judge Jaiza Page was appealed last July by Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost, who has defended school choice.
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Republican Gov. Mike DeWine on Monday announced Ohio Department of Public Safety Director Andy Wilson is his pick to serve for the remaining six months of outgoing Attorney General Dave Yost’s term.
Last Thursday, Yost made his resignation official, effective June 7. He’ll leave his current post to work for Alliance Defending Freedom.
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Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost indicated Thursday that he will resign from office, telling families of fallen officers and other attendees at the annual peace officers memorial that “Today will be the last time I am here in this role.”
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Jacob Tolliver came upon my radar at the end of last year when I featured his high-octane version of “Here Comes Santa Claus” in my 2025 Country Christmas Roundup. I hadn’t heard anyone bang a piano like that since Jerry Lee Lewis. Turns out, Lewis was a major influence on young Tolliver.
Tolliver’s dad is a drummer, but other than that, there wasn’t a lot of direct musical influence growing up. However, on his mother’s side, his great-grandmother was a Wagner and was related to composer Richard Wagner. On his dad’s side, Sir Bartholomew Taliaferro (the anglicized form of Taliaferro is Tolliver) was a shopkeeper and musician for Queen Elizabeth I in 16th-century Venice. Sir Taliaferro was also pals with William Shakespeare, and his “Merchant of Venice” is loosely based on him.
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Ohio Governor Mike DeWine is facing sharp criticism from within his own party over his defense of Haitian migrants in Springfield, as conservative activist and founder of the Ohio-based We the People Convention Tom Zawistowski accused him of siding with immigrants over Ohio citizens and backing what he called a failed immigration policy.
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The National Institutes of Health opened an office Tuesday in East Palestine, Ohio, to study the long-term health effects of the 2023 toxic train derailment, which caused a major environmental disaster that impacted thousands of residents in the surrounding area.
A Norfolk Southern train transporting the toxic chemical, vinyl chloride, unexpectedly derailed three years ago, after a hot railcar wheel bearing sparked a fire. The derailment forced 38 train cars off the tracks, 11 of which were carrying the hazardous material.
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Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar was sprayed with apple cider vinegar during her town hall event in Minneapolis, Minnesota, according to forensic investigators.
A man seated in the front row sprayed Omar’s chest with a syringe-like device lunging at her from his seat before being detained by law enforcement. Forensic investigators determined the substance was apple cider vinegar in the following hours, according to KARE, a local Minneapolis outlet.
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In the wake of a historic immigration enforcement action, the nation’s deputy director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced Thursday she is stepping down to run for Congress in Ohio.
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A bodyguard for billionaire and Republican Ohio gubernatorial hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy’s family was arrested recently on drug-trafficking charges, according to a criminal complaint reviewed by Newsweek on Thursday.
Prosecutors claimed Justin Salsburey and his wife Ruthann Rankin received over 250 packages containing drugs between August 2024 and December 2025, and a search of the couple’s home allegedly found 264 grams of blue fentanyl pills, 938 grams of methamphetamine pills, and 19 grams of MDMA.
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Law enforcement officials arrested a man outside Vice President J.D. Vance’s Cincinnati home early Monday morning.
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In the past, certain presidential administrations created layers of regulatory hurdles for companies to clear before they could complete mergers and acquisitions and invest in American manufacturing.
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Several Somali-owned daycare facilities, including a cluster located at a strip mall, are being examined by ABC6 Investigates for potential fraud in Columbus, Ohio.
Calls to investigate alleged fraud at Somali-owned childcare centers intensified after a viral video from independent journalist Nick Shirley, who was seen canvassing multiple Somali-run daycare centers accused of fraud in Minnesota. Following the attention, ABC6 Investigates reported Monday that it identified several Somali daycares in northeast Columbus that are now under review.
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Reporting live from the Indiana State Capitol on Tuesday, radio show host John Fredericks described an intense political scene as lawmakers consider a mid-census redistricting bill.
Indiana is pursuing mid-census redistricting as Republican lawmakers argue that other states – particularly Democratic-led states like California and Illinois – have already undertaken aggressive partisan map-drawing outside the normal 10-year census cycle.
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Sen. Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio, has introduced a bill that would outlaw dual citizenship in the United States.
Moreno, who was born in Colombia, legally immigrated with his family at age 5, and became a naturalized citizen at 18, recently introduced The Exclusive Citizenship Act of 2025, which would require those who are citizens of the United States and a foreign country to choose a single citizenship rather than remain dual citizens.
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Walk into your local pharmacy or grocery store and try to buy Tide laundry detergent or razor blades. You’ll have to find an employee with a key. Everyday items are now locked behind glass like fine jewelry. That’s what happens when theft stops being the exception and becomes a business model.
This isn’t petty shoplifting. It’s coordinated, large-scale theft that is battering our economy. Organized criminal gangs and networks are stealing truckloads of merchandise, raiding railcars, and clearing shelves before selling stolen goods online. The Association of American Railroads reports freight theft has risen roughly 40 percent over the last year, costing millions of dollars in losses and property damage.
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A church in Bryan, Ohio, recently notched a win that religious liberty advocates believe will set a new precedent after the city attempted to shut down the church using fire codes.
Last Friday, Ohio’s Sixth District Court of Appeals reversed an injunction against the church, called Dad’s Place, and its pastor, Chris Avell, from being able to carry out religious ministry to the homeless and provide them with temporary shelter. The legal questions in the case centered around the relationship between religious liberty and municipal codes, with an eye to ensuring religious organizations are not unnecessarily burdened.
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Ohio is making changes in many ways, especially when it comes to opportunity. That’s the sense one gets from Republican Speaker Matt Huffman of the Ohio General Assembly. Huffman was the recipient of the 2025 Taxpayer Torch Award from Americans for Prosperity’s Ohio chapter, with The Daily Signal present.
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Pell Grants have long been a cornerstone of access to higher education, helping tens of millions of qualifying students at colleges and universities across the country. The program was originally designed to propel low-income students in traditional degree pathways, but as the nature of work shifts, so must our educational programs. Thanks to lawmakers in Washington D.C., the Pell Grant program has been modernized to meet the needs of today’s workforce and economy with its expansion to provide funding for short-term high-quality work force development program.
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A federal watchdog is raising concerns over the U.S. Department of Education’s handling of Title IX enforcement, highlighting two Ohio school districts as part of a broader pattern of investigations carried out in direct violation of a federal court injunction.
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Ohio voters appear to already be souring on former three-term Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown’s comeback bid after rejecting the ex-senator at the ballot box last November, according to recent polling.
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While politics is pushing redistricting efforts in other states, Ohio is under a rule of the people to change congressional maps before the midterm elections.
Thanks to a constitutional amendment passed by voters in 2018, congressional districts drawn without bipartisan support from the Ohio Redistricting Commission must be redrawn every four years.
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Protect the Public’s Trust (PPT) filed a civil rights complaint against the University of Iowa (UIowa) and Iowa State University (ISU) on Thursday after videos surfaced of administrators at both schools claiming to have found ways to skirt anti-diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) laws.
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A second Ohio county is facing a lawsuit for not releasing information pertaining to contracts with U.S. Immigration Customs and Enforcement.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio wants public records from the Seneca County Sheriff’s Office that relate to documents and communications connected to its agreement with ICE to handle federal immigration functions.
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On August 14th, the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest (CMPI) released a report detailing instances of waste, fraud, and abuse at Ohio non-profit hospitals. At a time when healthcare costs are skyrocketing nationwide, the findings in the report are shocking to say the least.
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I have been a big fan of Karissa Ella since I first featured her in 2022. Her song, “I Hope Heaven’s Like” is such a beautiful song that you must hear to appreciate fully. While she captures hearts with her soulful sound and magnetic energy, what sets her apart among the growing number of country artists is her sincerity. She believes the words that she writes and sings, which come across in her music.
Karissa Ella has a new EP, Growing Wings, and she has written six of the seven songs. Raised in rural Ohio, the Midwestern girl writes what she knows and sings about it effortlessly.
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U.S. District Court Judge Paula Xinis, an appointee of former President Barack Obama, on Wednesday issued a ruling to block the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from immediately detaining Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the alleged human smuggler, if he is released from Department of Justice (DOJ) custody in Tennessee.
Xinis’ ruling will block federal immigration authorities from arresting Abrego Garcia if he is released from DOJ custody in Nashville, despite his status as an illegal immigrant who has been subject to a final deportation order since 2019. This will seemingly allow Abrego Garcia to return to Maryland, where he will be subject to periodic check-ins with federal authorities.
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The Beacon Center of Tennessee is asking the Supreme Court to hear a property rights case that could have wide sweeping effects across the country.
On Monday, the Beacon Center filed a petition to the Court to review the Richmond Road Partners v. City of Warrensville Heights.
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth District last Wednesday heard oral arguments in the court case brought by the Dayton Area Chamber of Commerce against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) over a portion of the controversial Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) passed by Congress under former President Joe Biden, which contains provisions requiring drug manufacturers to sell specific products at prices set by the federal government.
Filed in June 2023 against former HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra, the lawsuit claims the IRA infringed upon the First Amendment rights of companies to set their own prices, created a negotiation process that robbed drug manufacturers of their Fifth Amendment right to due process, established excessive fines in violation of the Eight Amendment that are imposed on manufacturers unwilling to sell at the government-approved prices, improperly delegated authorities to HHS, and that the legislation exceeded the powers assigned to Congress in the U.S. Constitution.
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New documents obtained by The Ohio Star reveal that Attorney General Dave Yost participated in an all-expense-paid trip to France that was organized by the nonprofit Attorney General Alliance (AGA), which received more than $3 million in donations from Pfizer’s political action committee over less than a decade.
These documents, including an event programming and email correspondence between Yost’s office and AGA, reveal previously unreported details about the conference, including that Yost submitted an invoice for $12,184.60 to be reimbursed by AGA for his and his wife’s flights to France.
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The state senate’s proposed Ohio budget was back in front of the Finance Committee on Wednesday for the first time since Republican leadership called its two-year plan bold.
The plan, which includes the final phase-in of a flat income tax rate, the elimination of property tax levy options and a ban on certain school districts from asking for new taxes, is getting both applause and criticism.
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An ongoing effort to reign in property taxes in Ohio continues to move forward.
A bill that moves some power away from the state to local county auditors could receive a floor vote as soon as Wednesday.
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With the final piece of House Bill 6 now gone, Democrat lawmakers in Ohio now want to close campaign spending loopholes that led to the largest bribery scandal in state history.
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Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost announced the suspension of his gubernatorial campaign on Friday in an email to supporters.
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The Ohio Republican Party officially endorsed businessman and former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy for Ohio governor on Friday.
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Jack Windsor, president and editor-in-chief at The Ohio Press Network, said businessman and former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy’s bid to be the next governor of the Buckeye State has displayed how the Ohio Republican Party is deeply split between the “old guard” and the “new guard.”
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Citing broken promises and unpaid response costs, the East Palestine City District Board of Education sued Norfolk Southern on Wednesday.
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Legislation under consideration in the Tennessee General Assembly would prohibit efforts to increase the transparency of the federal program, which requires drug manufacturers to sell discounted drugs to specific entities with the goal of expanding affordable healthcare but does not require hospitals to transfer these savings directly to the prices consumers pay for drugs.
The legislative summary for Senate Bill (SB) 1414, by State Senator Richard Briggs (R-Knoxville), claims the legislation would expand an existing law that prohibits “discrimination against 340B entities. ” 340 B entities are specific hospitals and clinics that receive lower prices for prescription drugs under the federal 340B Drug Pricing Program established under the Public Health Service Act of 1992.
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Attorney General David Yost on Monday joined a push for the U.S. Congress to allow for yearlong sales of E15 gasoline, a fuel blend for modern vehicles from which 15 percent is derived through renewable agricultural sources and 85 percent through normal gasoline, arguing bipartisan legislation submitted recently to accomplish this goal would benefit Ohio farmers and the rest of the country.
“Ohio’s motorists, farmers and energy providers all stand to gain from this proposal,” Yost said in a statement published by his office. “It’s good for our state’s economy, and it’s a key step toward energy independence for our country.”
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Ohio gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy received early endorsements from President Donald Trump and Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) leader Elon Musk shortly after his Monday announcement, receiving key support an Ohio political pundit recently said would prove pivotal in the primary contest.
Trump endorsed Ramaswamy in a Monday night post to Truth Social, where he described the former businessman and presidential candidate as “Young, Strong, and Smart!”
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Tom Zawistowski, president of the Ohio-based We the People Convention, said the Republican establishment in Ohio is “threatened” by businessman and former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy’s bid for governor.
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Businessman and former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy officially launched his bid for Ohio governor on Monday during a campaign rally at CTL Aerospace Inc. in his hometown of Cincinnati.
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Ohio is sending an additional $750,000 in taxpayer funds to move a primary care facility in East Palestine to a new location.
The money is expected to help East Liverpool City Hospital create the new location for the facility in the small, eastern Ohio village impacted two years ago by a train derailment and toxic chemical release.
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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) confirmed Wednesday that its agents were involved in the arrest of an alleged murder and Ecuadorian national who was evading a warrant from his home country while living in a suburb of Columbus, Ohio.
An ICE press release confirmed the February 12 arrest of Luis Naula-Candelario in conjunction with the U.S. Marshals Service, with the agency describing Naula-Candelario as “a criminal alien from Ecuador who is wanted in his home country for murder.”
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Walsh Jesuit High School in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio confirmed the authenticity of in a Saturday email to members of its community that a letter sent to Libs of TikTok, a pro-parental rights group who called the message “unhinged,” and that it was internally investigating the source of the email.
Libs of TikTok posted the correspondence in a post to the social media platform X, revealing a journalist for the organization sought comment from Walsh Jesuit regarding an alleged homework assignment which required students to criticize President Donald Trump’s executive order to end Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs within the federal government.
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