Julie Carr Smyth

FILE – Ohio State University President Ted Carter speaks during the National Championship football celebration at Ohio Stadium in Columbus, Ohio, Jan. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Joe Maiorana, file)

Ohio State University’s president resigns after reporting ‘inappropriate relationship’

March 9, 2026 at 2:44 p.m.

Ohio State University is investigating after President Walter “Ted” Carter Jr. resigned abruptly following the disclosure of “an inappropriate relationship” with a woman seeking public resources for her personal business,...

This image taken from video taken provided by WCPO shows first responders outside of Riverfront Live on Sunday, March 1, 2026, in Cincinnati, Ohio. (WCPO via AP)

FBI joins Cincinnati police search for suspect after 9 wounded in nightclub shooting

March 2, 2026 at 3:32 p.m.

Federal authorities joined local police Monday in the search for a suspect in a weekend nightclub shooting in Cincinnati that wounded nine people.

This image taken from video shows Michael David McKee walking into the courtroom on Monday, Jan. 12, 2026, in Rockford, Ill. (WIFR News/Pool Photo via AP)

Illinois surgeon pleads not guilty to the killings of his ex-wife and her dentist husband in Ohio

January 23, 2026 at 2:51 p.m.

An Illinois doctor indicted on murder charges in the December shooting deaths of his ex-wife and her dentist husband in their Columbus home pleaded not guilty to the killings in an Ohio...

Spencer and Monique Tepe’s home in Columbus, Ohio, on Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Patrick Aftoora-Orsagos)

Ohio authorities say Lincoln Park resident Michael McKee, ex-husband of Monique Tepe, is responsible for killings

January 14, 2026 at 5:36 p.m.

Police in Ohio’s capital city said Wednesday that they have gathered enough evidence to link a man charged in the double homicide of his ex-wife and her husband in their...

Vivek Ramaswamy, a Republican candidate for governor of Ohio, speaks at a rally Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2026, in Cleveland. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)

Vivek Ramaswamy’s family bodyguard arrested on drug trafficking charges

January 9, 2026 at 6:20 p.m.

Republican Ohio gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy has expressed alarm that a man who worked as his family’s bodyguard is facing federal drug trafficking charges.

FILE – A sheriff’s deputy inspects ballots with the aid of a dog at the L.A. County Ballot Processing Center Nov. 4, 2025, in City of Industry, Calif. (AP Photo/Ethan Swope, File)

Big changes to the agency charged with securing elections lead to midterm worries

November 23, 2025 at 12:44 p.m.

Shifting priorities of the Trump administration, staffing reductions and budget cuts have many election officials concerned about how engaged the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency will be next year, when...

Poll workers help people get set up to vote at a polling site in Garfield, N.J., Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Bomb threats in New Jersey and Trump warnings for California mark Election Day

November 4, 2025 at 8:31 p.m.

Bomb threats to New Jersey polling stations, a voter roll mishap in Pennsylvania potentially affecting thousands of voters and warnings by President Donald Trump against California’s mail balloting system marked...

FILE – A person arrives for a U.S. Election Assistance Commission Standards Board public meeting, April 24, 2025, in Charlotte, N.C. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson, File)

Trump allies, undeterred by setbacks in courts and Congress, push anew for citizenship proof to vote

October 23, 2025 at 8:51 a.m.

A documentary proof-of-citizenship requirement for voting in U.S. elections hasn’t been able to pass Congress and has been blocked by the courts, so allies of President Donald Trump’s administration are...

FILE – A military aircraft waits for migrants to board from a bus at Fort Bliss in El Paso, Tx., Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025, before deporting them to Guatemala. (AP Photo/Christian Chavez, File)

A federal judge orders the Trump administration to return a Guatemalan deported to Mexico to the US

May 24, 2025 at 1:47 p.m.

A federal judge ordered the Trump administration late Friday to facilitate the return of a Guatemalan man it deported to Mexico in spite of his fears of being harmed there.

Former Ohio State head coach Jim Tressel watches a scoreboard tribute for the 2002 national championship team during the second quarter against Notre Dame on Sept. 3, 2022, in Columbus, Ohio. (AP Photo/David Dermer)

Former Buckeyes football coach Jim Tressel nominated to be Ohio’s next lieutenant governor

February 10, 2025 at 2:13 p.m.

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine on Monday nominated former Ohio State Buckeyes football coach Jim Tressel to be the state’s next lieutenant governor.

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