Citadel founder Ken Griffin told a Sun Valley audience he’d prefer Marco Rubio over Vice President J.D. Vance — a rare public tilt from one of the GOP’s biggest donors.

A Dispatch payroll database shows Gahanna’s top 2025 earners were mainly police supervisors and the chief, with several employees topping $160,000 to $200,000.

A federal judge in Columbus granted a preliminary injunction stopping USCIS from enforcing memoranda that paused work permits and green cards for 25 immigrants.

Council President Shannon Hardin marched in the Short North Doo Dah Parade with a jokey "Hardin Run Club" and cheeky signs, reigniting talk of a possible mayoral challenge.

Sen. Jerry Cirino’s SB 461 would force students at universities with state-backed civics centers to take center-run classes and give center directors broad control over curriculum and tuition.

Ohio education officials opened a probe after Columbus City Schools flagged testing anomalies at Walnut Ridge and Independence; scores were invalidated district‑wide pending review.

State figures show more than 110 Ohio districts and independent schools list staff authorized to carry firearms after a 2022 law cut the training floor to 24 hours.

The Ohio Supreme Court heard State v. Morrell on June 30, 2026, over whether serious‑youthful‑offender juvenile adjudications can count as prior convictions and force mandatory prison time.

The Supreme Court ruled June 30 that states may bar transgender girls from girls' and women's school sports, upholding Idaho and West Virginia laws and sending cases back to lower courts.

Records show executive protection overtime and personnel costs spiked in Columbus as the city faces a roughly $15M shortfall, prompting council scrutiny.

Ramaswamy’s Ohio campaign reported $509,473 in credit‑card charges as lump sums, prompting questions about transparency and enforcement under state law.

A federal judge in Cleveland dismissed the SEC's nearly $20M claim against former FirstEnergy CEO Chuck Jones, saying his statements didn’t legally require disclosure of dark‑money payments.

A new Ohio Senate measure would require a 50% capacity factor and round‑the‑clock dispatchability for "reliable" power — a change critics say could block many utility‑scale solar and wind projects.