COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio voters are evenly split over a proposal before the state Legislature that would impose the nation’s strictest abortion limit, according to a new poll released Thursday.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Hundreds of people rallied Monday outside the South Carolina capitol to honor the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday and protest the state’s voter identification law.
COLUMBUS — The deviations from official death penalty procedures made during an execution last year were minor changes that wouldn’t cause pain to an inmate or violate his rights, the state said in a filing Friday seeking to overturn a judge’s ruling that postponed next week’s execution of a man who stabbed an elderly couple to death 25 years ago.
COLUMBUS — Former Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray’s contentious tumble onto the national stage has been anything but typical for the intelligent, mild-mannered public servant who occasionally pads about his office in sock feet.
COLUMBUS — The sponsor of an Ohio bill that would impose the nation’s most stringent abortion limit has taken responsibility for some confusion over proposed changes to the measure that caused hearings on the bill to be suspended last month.
ATLANTA — Just as Medicaid prepares for a vast expansion under the federal health care overhaul, the 47-year-old entitlement program for the poor is under increasing pressure as deficit-burdened states chip away at benefits and cut payments to doctors.
COLUMBUS — The leader of the Ohio Senate said Wednesday that he’s suspending hearings on a bill that would ban abortions at the first detectable fetal heartbeat, saying amendments proposed by supporters have created confusion.
COLUMBUS — Opponents of an Ohio bill banning abortions at the first detectable fetal heartbeat told senators Tuesday the measure is unconstitutional, radical and cruel and would effectively ban abortion in the state.