John Kasich

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — In the end, they just didn't have the votes. For two legislative sessions, Indiana Democrats fought the divisive labor measure known as right-to-work. They offered amendments aimed at changing the bill. They sought to put the...

Indiana became the Rust Belt's first right-to-work state Wednesday in a move that is sure to embolden advocates seeking to curtail union rights across the country. But whether other states can replicate the conservatives' success in Indiana is less...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The office of Ohio Gov. John Kasich (KAY'-sik) says the state Department of Agriculture has ordered six exotic animals to be quarantined. That's instead of transferring them from a zoo to a woman whose suicidal husband freed...

LUCASVILLE, Ohio (AP) — Ohio could execute at least seven killers next year now that an unofficial moratorium on capital punishment has ended in the state and numerous inmates exhaust decades-old appeals. A federal judge's examination of the state'...

LUCASVILLE, Ohio (AP) — The state on Tuesday executed a man who said he didn't remember fatally shooting his ex-girlfriend and her boyfriend at the woman's Cincinnati apartment in 1984. Daniel Lee Bedford, 63, became the third inmate in Ohio and...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Their ranks swollen after the last election, Republican governors from Florida to Alaska are undermining President Barack Obama's agenda at every turn ahead of the Democrat's 2012 re-election campaign. Some are rejecting...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana's Republican leadership is pushing ahead with a proposal that would be the nation's broadest use of school vouchers, allowing even middle-class families to use taxpayer money to send their kids to private schools....

By Jo Ingles COLUMBUS, Ohio, May 25 (Reuters) - The Republican-led Ohio legislature approved a bill setting rules for drilling and related activities in the state's shale gas industry, in a vote late on Thursday, responding to a series of small...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (Reuters) - Ohio state lawmakers on Tuesday approved restrictions on exotic animal ownership that were pressed by officials after a man released dozens of dangerous animals from his farm and then killed himself last fall, touching off a big...

By Stephanie Simon May 16 (Reuters) - During her tumultuous three years at the head of the Washington D.C. public schools, Michelle Rhee set off a lot of fireworks. She's still doing it - on a national stage. Rhee has emerged as the leader of an...

* Fracking has been linked to groundwater pollution * Suspected of raising the risk of earthquakes * Method was exempted from clean water rules under Bush By Jason McLure May 8 (Reuters) - Vermont will be the first state to outlaw a controversial...

* City with knack for picking presidents * Romney trails in organization in Ohio By Samuel P. Jacobs CHILLICOTHE, Ohio, May 11 (Reuters) - Last week, President Barack Obama launched his re-election campaign in the university town of Columbus, Ohio. His...