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Ohio appeals court rules against prison tax
A state appeals court says the city of Youngstown can't impose a per-inmate tax on a privately operated federal prison. The Seventh District Court of Appeals this week nullified a $1 a day tax the city has been imposing per prisoner at the Northeast Ohio Correctional Center, run by the ...
Fed: fracking study won't be done until 2016
A U.S. Environmental Protection Agency official tells an Ohio fracking conference that a study of the threat to drinking water from the shale-drilling process won't be completed until 2016. That's the word from Jeanne Briskin, coordinator of hydraulic fracturing research at the EPA's Office of Research and Development. She spoke ...
Picturesque Ohio village on endangered places list
A national preservation group on Wednesday named a picturesque Ohio village as one of the nation's most endangered historic places and is calling on state authorities to scrap a plan that village leaders and preservations say could permanently scar the area. The National Trust for Historic Preservation named the Village ...
Ohio lawmakers offer 2 bills to change Medicaid
Proposed changes to the Medicaid program in Ohio are unlikely to clear the Legislature before lawmakers break at the end of the month, the Republican leader of the House said Tuesday. Ohio legislators have been trying to find common ground on the federal-state health program for the poor and disabled ...
Allegheny County seeks gas drilling bids
Allegheny County officials say they plan to request bids for natural gas drilling under a public park. County Executive Rich Fitzgerald says Tuesday that the county could get up to $700,000 a year in royalty payments for drilling under Deer Lake Park, which is about 20 miles northeast of Pittsburgh. ...
IRS worker: No political bias against tea party
An Internal Revenue Service manager and self-described conservative Republican said the close scrutiny of tea party groups' tax forms originated in his Cincinnati IRS office and not in Washington, according to a full transcript of his interview by congressional investigators released Tuesday. John Shafer, who oversaw a small group of ...
Budget director: Ohio's unused surplus about $397M
The state should have almost $397 million in uncommitted funds leftover at end of the current budget year, Ohio's budget director said Tuesday before a legislative panel that's working to put the final touches on the next state spending plan. Lawmakers face a June 30 deadline to pass the $61.7 ...
3 more plead guilty in probe of Pilot Flying J
Three more employees of the truck stop chain owned by the Cleveland Browns' owner and Tennessee's governor pleaded guilty Tuesday in what authorities call a scheme to cheat trucking firms out of rebates. Regional sales manager Kevin Clark pleaded guilty to mail fraud in federal court in Knoxville. Local media ...
Landing gear collapses as jet lands at OH airport
Authorities say no injuries were reported when a small private jet's landing gear apparently collapsed after it touched down on a runway at a Cincinnati airport. Cincinnati fire department officials say the twin-engine aircraft landed at Lunken Airport about 11:30 a.m. Tuesday. Airport manager Fred Anderton says a pilot and ...
Ohio livestock prices
The Eastern Cornbelt Daily Direct Summary from Monday as reported by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agriculture Marketing Service: BASE MARKET On a carcass basis plant delivered (54-62 pct. lean): 1.27 lower. Base price range: 90.00-105.00, weighted average 99.43. 0.8-0.9 inches backfat: 90.00-106.35. 0.6-0.7 inches backfat: 93.00-109.91. Total prior day ...
Ohio theme parks rank in top 15 in attendance
Ohio's Cedar Point and Kings Island were the most visited theme parks in the nation last year outside of the usual hot spots in Florida and California, according to a new report from an industry trade group. Cedar Point in Sandusky came in 14th in the nation in attendance, and ...
42 tons of missing fertilizer found in Ky.
Kentucky State Police say they have found 42 tons of fertilizer that had been reported missing from a company in Ohio. Media cited police in reporting that a private investigator hired by Consolidated Terminals and Logistics in North Bend, Ohio, to investigate thefts from the company tracked a vehicle to ...
Dayton racino clears another hurdle
The new racino being built in Dayton has cleared a financing hurdle. Dayton-Montgomery County Port Authority directors voted Monday to authorize the issuance of $65 million in bonds to finance construction of the 119-acre harness-racing track that will also feature video slot machines. Jerry Brunswick, executive director of the port ...
Ohio Turnpike toll hikes to back road projects
Higher tolls on the Ohio Turnpike over the next decade will back $1 billion in bonds that will help pay for northern Ohio road projects. Tolls will increase 2.7 percent a year to pay for work that would otherwise face years of delay because of lower revenue at the Ohio ...
Census data: Ohio may be stemming 'brain drain'
A better economy and job prospects appear to be helping stem Ohio's "brain drain" of young adults, according to a newspaper analysis of census data. Census numbers indicate that the state may finally have reversed the decades-long trend of losing young adults ages 20 to 34 to other states, The ...
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