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ANNA, Ohio (AP) — Honda said Wednesday it will invest $98 million at its largest auto engine plant for the western Ohio facility to produce components for its new transmission technology. The engine plant in Anna will make high-tech pulley components for Honda’s new continuously variable transmission, or CVT, aimed at improving fuel efficiency. Honda [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A woman’s speeding got her a warning from an Ohio state trooper but wasn’t enough to keep her grandchild from being born in her car. Donna Richmond got pulled over on Tuesday morning as she was trying to rush her daughter to a Columbus hospital. She tells WBNS-TV the State Highway [...]
DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — Fewer Ohio teens are obtaining their driver’s licenses, in a trend related to economic and other factors, according to records from the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles and experts. A Dayton Daily News analysis of the records found a 9 percent drop in Ohio’s 16- and 17-year-old licensed drivers from 2006 [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — State disaster officials have started using a Web-based program to more efficiently track and respond to severe weather and other crises, and they’re also giving counties access to the system. They say the software, used by dozens of states and the federal government, makes it easier to assess damage, needs and [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Invoices show the consultant helping Ohio develop rules and regulations related to its four new casinos charged the state more than $1.5 million in 2011. More than $1.4 million of the costs for Atlantic City, N.J.-based Spectrum Gaming Group came from fees of up to $375 per hour, The Columbus Dispatch [...]
CINCINNATI (AP) — A floor collapsed into a V shape Friday at the construction site of a new Ohio casino, sending workers sliding to the ground, leaving one worker with serious injuries and hurting at least a dozen others. The collapse occurred shortly before 8 a.m. as a crew was pouring a section of concrete [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio lawmakers should repeal a new law that shortens early voting in the presidential battleground state, rather than allow voters to decide in November whether the measure should be scrapped, the state’s top election official said Wednesday. Secretary of State Jon Husted, a Republican, said an expected fall campaign over the [...]
CINCINNATI (AP) — Christian school teachers in southwest Ohio rejoiced and gave thanks on Wednesday for the rescue by U.S. Navy SEALs of former student Jessica Buchanan, who had been held hostage in Somalia. They say months of prayers were answered with the news that the aid worker was safe. She and a Danish colleague [...]
OTTAWA, Ohio (AP) — A Scotsman who spent two decades on Ohio’s death row returned on Wednesday in handcuffs to a courtroom where he was set free four years ago. Life on the outside has been a struggle for Ken Richey, who has been in and out of trouble while dealing with a lifetime of [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio has received two failing grades in an annual report card on what the states are doing to control smoking. The American Lung Association has given Ohio “F”s for the amount of money it spends to prevent smoking and for its coverage of programs to help people quit. The state also [...]
EPA wants sewer discharge at Kenton’s southern edge fixed
Sweetheart court
Five Kenton football players make college choices official
OHP students repair vehicle
R’mont FFA advisor in D.C.; meets with business, legislative leaders
HN librarian uses programs to help kids gain love of reading
