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Ohio voters reject replacing troubled mapmaking system with citizen-led redistricting commission

Nov. 06, 2024 00:58 AM EST

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio voters rejected a constitutional amendment Tuesday that would have established a citizen-led redistricting commission to replace an existing mapmaking system that repeatedly produced unconstitutional maps. The outcome marked a defeat for the group...

Ohio's first female House Speaker Jo Ann Davidson remembered as a trailblazer and legend

Oct. 31, 2024 18:03 PM EDT

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The late Jo Ann Davidson, Ohio’s first and only female House speaker, was remembered during a Statehouse memorial service Thursday for blazing trails for women with grit, grace and a guiding spirit. Dozens of the Republican women she had mentored wore red in her honor,...

Ohio's first female House speaker, Republican Jo Ann Davidson, champion of GOP women, has died at 97

Oct. 25, 2024 16:08 PM EDT

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Jo Ann Davidson, Ohio's first woman House speaker and an advocate for putting effective Republican women in office, died Friday. She was 97. Republican Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine, a long-time friend, announced Davidson's death in a statement, calling her “a model...

AP Explains: Migration is more complex than politics show

Sep. 20, 2024 14:29 PM EDT

For decades politicians in both parties have bemoaned a U.S. immigration system that virtually all call broken. Attempts at comprehensive reform have failed and popular emotion and partisan rancor have it a new high over the last two years as cities and towns struggled to accommodate migrants. ...

Overseas threats hit the Ohio city where Trump and Vance lied about Haitians eating pets

Sep. 17, 2024 18:34 PM EDT

SPRINGFIELD, Ohio (AP) — Ohio stationed state police at Springfield schools Tuesday in response to a rash of bomb threats — the vast majority that officials said came from overseas —- after former President Donald Trump and his running mate, Ohio Sen. JD Vance falsely said legal Haitian...

Ohio state police to protect schools after furor over Haitian immigrants in Springfield

Sep. 16, 2024 20:16 PM EDT

SPRINGFIELD, Ohio (AP) — Ohio state police will help protect schools in a city at the center of a political furor over Haitian migrants, the governor announced Monday, while local officials canceled an annual celebration of cultural diversity in the fallout over former President Donald Trump’s...

Haitians in Ohio find solidarity at church after chaotic week of false pet-eating claims

Sep. 16, 2024 06:46 AM EDT

SPRINGFIELD, Ohio (AP) — For many Haitian immigrants, Sunday mornings in Springfield, Ohio, are spent joyfully worshipping God as they sing and pray in their native Creole. This Sunday, they needed that uplifting balm more than ever. Their community is reeling — confused,...

Vance doesn't back away from false claims about migrants in Ohio even amid threats to the community

Sep. 15, 2024 14:20 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance did not back away on Sunday from the false claims he and Donald Trump have been making that Haitians in an Ohio community are abducting and eating pets, even as the state's GOP governor and other officials insist there is no...

Guest lineups for the Sunday news shows

Sep. 13, 2024 18:52 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — ABC’s “This Week” — Govs. Mike DeWine, R-Ohio, and Maura Healey, D-Mass. ___ NBC's “Meet the Press” — Ohio Sen. JD Vance, the Republican vice presidential nominee; Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. ___ ...

Ohio is sending troopers and $2.5 million to a city that has seen an influx of Haitian migrants

Sep. 10, 2024 23:49 PM EDT

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The governor of Ohio will send law enforcement and millions of dollars in healthcare resources to the city of Springfield as it faces a surge in temporary Haitian migrants that has landed it in the national spotlight. Republican Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine said...