Toledo mayor floats plastic bag tax
TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) -- Toledo's mayor is proposing that shoppers pay a tax on each plastic shopping bag they take from a supermarket or other store.
Mayor Carty Finkbeiner says the city should discourage people from using plastic bags, which he says create wast ...
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Police say Ohio teen killed in archery accident
PORTSMOUTH, Ohio (AP) -- Authorities say a southern Ohio teen died after he took an arrow to the chest while a friend was showing off a bow he had recently purchased.
Portsmouth Police Detective Lynn Brewer says the boy with the bow was inexperien ...
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Ohio eyes new blood-alcohol devices
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- Ohio plans to spend $6.4 million to give authorities new blood-alcohol devices that are the subject of legal challenges in other states questioning whether the machines are reliably accurate.
The State Controlling Board has approved a r ...
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Study shows retailers get $1B of sales tax back
By CHUCK BARTELS
AP Business Writer
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) -- Even as they struggle amid the slowing economy, some states, including Ohio, are giving retailers back about $1 billion in sales taxes each year as reimbursement for acting as tax col ...
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Federal help for Ohio farmers hit by weather
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- Farmers in several Ohio counties may be eligible for federal loans after suffering agricultural losses due to severe weather last winter and in the late summer.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture says Emergency Physical Loss lo ...
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Ohio judge sides with challenge on worker's comp
CLEVELAND (AP) -- An Ohio judge on Tuesday blocked the Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation from setting job-injury insurance rates while a lawsuit brought by several business owners moves forward.
Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge Richard McMon ...
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Paulson: National City properly denied money
By The Associated Press
U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson rejected a northeast Ohio congressman's claim Tuesday that struggling National City Corp. was improperly denied funding from the government's $700 billion bailout.
Challenged on the issu ...
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NE Ohio Democrat selected as state House speaker
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- House Democrats selected state Rep. Armond Budish as the next Speaker of the House as they chose a new leadership team Tuesday night.
With a new Democratic majority in the chamber, Budish will replace Republican Jon Husted ...
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Toledo Zoo to raise prices
TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) -- The Toledo Zoo says a 2009 price increase will be the first in three years.
Zoo executive director Anne Baker explains that the economy may be down, but the animals haven't stopped eating.
Zoo admissions will go up $1. Beginning in March, adults ...
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School kids help Toledo family get home makeover
TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) -- Sixth graders at Toledo Christian School wanted to do something when one family wasn't picked to get their home repaired when ABC's "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" came to town.
So the children collected coins, asked busines ...
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Storm dumps snow, makes a mess of Ohio roads
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- Crashes have littered icy roads and schools are delayed throughout much of northern and central Ohio as winter makes an extended early visit.
Snow has been heaviest in northeast Ohio, where a lake effect snow advisory is in eff ...
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APNewsbreak: GOP lawmakers seek end of vote window
By STEPHEN MAJORS
Associated Press Writer
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- Republicans who control the Ohio Senate want to get rid of a disputed weeklong period in which new voters can register and then immediately cast a ballot, a top official said Mo ...
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