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The heavy hand of government censorship is at it again. This year, Ohio officials silenced hundreds of car owners looking to make a statement with custom license plates. The state's Bureau of Motor Vehicles has denied 891 vanity plate requests so far this year, and some of them are pretty…

Microsoft paused its $1 billion data center project in Ohio, raising questions among analysts about whether AI demand has been overestimated.

The Columbus Police Department's bodycam footage from the neo-Nazi protest on Nov. 23 revealed one officer complained about missing the college football game.

The text messages displaying the message, "You have been selected to pick cotton at the nearest plantation," have been reported in several states.

Ohio's Senate race continues to be a "toss up" contest as Sen. Sherrod Brown is hoping his experience in the state will be enough to bring him a fourth term

Blendon Police Officer Connor Grubb has been charged with four counts of murder, four counts of felonious assault, and two counts of involuntary manslaughter

Teen who got inside the vehicle told police that he ‘panicked’ and began to drive off, which caused him to fatally strike the single mother

Michigan's Will Johnson, LSU's Will Campbell and Oklahoma State's Ollie Gordon II are the best players in College Football 25.

Did the death of Brian’s  mother and stress of medical school cause him to run away from his life? Kill himself? Or is he still alive? If so, where could he be? Andrea Cavallier reports on one of Ohio’s mysterious missing person cases