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Ohio drivers may be able to use smartphone to prove auto insurance
Ohio drivers required to show proof of insurance could provide that information using smartphones under a proposed change in state law.The bill would allow drivers to prove they are insured through information on an electronic wireless communications device rather than the typical printed card. Drivers could provide law enforcement officials ...
Ohio may pay tuition, medical care for Cleveland kidnapping victims
Ohio lawmakers want to award free college tuition and lifetime medical care to the women held captive for a decade in a Cleveland man’s house.A bill introduced this week in the Ohio House would also award at least $25,000 annually for each year of captivity to anyone who is abducted ...
Senate passes $62 billion budget for Ohio
The Ohio Senate approved along party lines on Thursday a $62 billion state budget bill that proposes major changes to Ohio’s school funding method and a $1.4 billion tax cut for small businesses and investors.Few changes were made during debate Thursday, but the Senate made hundreds of changes over the ...
Senators scrap plan to raise vehicle registration fees in Ohio
The Senate Finance Committee on Wednesday removed a proposal in the two-year state budget to increase the cost of vehicle registrations in Ohio.Tucked into the senate finance budget was an amendment that would have a 2 percent hike to the state portion of annual vehicle registration fees.Most noncommercial drivers would ...
Cedarville University names new president
Cedarville University’s newly named president Thomas White said he will work to ensure the school’s graduates are academically prepared for jobs and “understand how to defend their Biblical world view against a culture that may not always be so friendly to that world view.” White, 39, was selected as Cedarville’s ...
Gee explains retirement in morning news conference
Ohio State University President E. Gordon Gee faced banks of TV cameras on Wednesday morning in the Ohio Union on campus to explain his abrupt retirement in the wake of embarrassing comments he made about Catholics, the University of Notre Dame and others. Gee said the decision was made after ...
Kasich signs act named for slain Clark County deputy
Ohio Gov. John Kasich signed a bill on Tuesday honoring slain Clark County Deputy Suzanne Hopper.The Suzanne Hopper Act is designed to keep law enforcement officers safe by giving them access to more information about potentially dangerous people with a history of mental illness.Hopper was killed in the line of ...
Ohio State President Gee retiring July 1
Ohio State University President E. Gordon Gee, announced Tuesday that he will retire on July 1. Gee who seemed beloved by students, community leaders and trustees, announced his retirement after his disparaging remarks about Catholics, the University of Notre Dame, the Southeastern Conference and others became public and gave OSU ...
Cost for vehicle registration in Ohio could go up
The cost of vehicle registrations in Ohio could go up under a plan being considered by state lawmakers.Tucked into the senate finance budget is an amendment that would have a 2 percent hike to the state portion of annual vehicle registration fees.Most noncommercial drivers would as a result pay another ...
OSU president jabs Notre Dame, Catholics, SEC
The president of Ohio State University said Notre Dame was never invited to join the Big Ten conference because the university's priests are not good partners, joking that "those damn Catholics" can't be trusted, according to a recording of a meeting he attended late last year. Gordon Gee also took ...
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