Watchdog report says Ohio officials got $3M

CLEVELAND — A gov­ern­ment watch­dog group has found that oil and gas com­pa­nies have spent nearly $3 mil­lion in the last decade on lob­by­ing and cam­paign con­tri­bu­tions in Ohio — a state that is believed to be on the verge of a nat­ural gas boom in the com­ing years.