A recent online petition to allow open carry of firearms at the Republican National Convention in July, which had acquired 51,376 signatures as of Tuesday evening, was apparently authored by a man who is not actually a Second Amendment activist, but a Hillary Clinton supporter.
Before John Kasich was a presidential candidate, before he was the governor of Ohio, he was a managing director at Lehman Brothers. A lot of things have changed for Kasich since his days in the private sector, but one thing hasn’t. He was a jerk back then, and he’s still a jerk now.
“Gov. John Kasich of Ohio expressed openness this weekend to considering Judge Merrick B. Garland for the Supreme Court, only to later clarify that he was just being polite and would not, in fact, choose him for the court.”
With Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio out of the running, Ohio Governor John Kasich is the establishment candidate no one saw coming. And sure, compared to the rest of the GOP’s increasingly terrifying sideshows in suits, Kasich comes across as sane. But don’t be fooled: John Kasich is just as much of a monster as the rest—he…
John Kasich, who wants to roll back abortion rights and would probably be very rude about it, was very unhappy with the confetti situation at his non-victory speech in New Hampshire last month. So his staff bought all the confetti in Ohio for his (first and only) primary victory speech.
John Kasich just took Ohio—his first and only state win so far. And fortunately for him, Ohio also just so happens to be a winner-take-all state. It’s just too bad it’s nearly impossible for him to win at this point.
The Associated Press and NBC News are projecting Hillary Clinton to win Ohio.
A Donald Trump rally in Cincinnati Sunday afternoon is still on, despite reports to the contrary from Trump’s own supporters.
Four students have been injured in a shooting at Madison Junior/Senior High School in Middletown, Ohio, on Monday, after a 14-year-old allegedly opened fired in the lunchroom. None of the injuries are life-threatening.
A police officer in Knox County was killed in the line of duty late Sunday night, WCMH-TV reports, after dispatchers received a call, late on Sunday night, from a woman who said her ex-boyfriend, Herschel Ray Jones, had left her house, with a gun, intending to kill a cop.
A special grand jury in Ohio, convened on Thursday, charged Joel Jenkins, a recently-fired Pike County sheriff’s deputy, with murder and involuntary manslaughter in two separate incidents, the Chillicothe Gazette reports.
On Thursday, Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Timothy McGinty made public another criminal justice expert’s report, commissioned by the prosecutor’s office, on a Cleveland police officer’s fatal shooting of Tamir Rice, 12, a year ago this month. The report found the shooting to be “tragic” but “reasonable.”
Ohio State Highway Patrol officials confirmed this morning that nine people—two pilots and seven employees from a Florida real estate company—were on board the small jet that crashed into an apartment building yesterday in Akron. There were no survivors.
Nine people were reportedly killed this afternoon when a small jet crashed into an apartment building in Akron, Ohio.
Legalizing weed is a great idea: fewer arrests and incarcerations, smaller prison population, more tax revenue, less harmful than alcohol and tobacco. Also, in Ohio, it will make Nick Lachey a big fat pile of money.
“Pro-marijuana group ResponsibleOhio introduced its new mascot to supporters this week... Part Superman, part cannabis plant, ‘Buddie’ has a green marijuana bud for a head, sports six-pack abs and wears a cape. On his chest: The letter B over a cannabis leaf and the state of Ohio.”
A woman who recently lost her job dressing up as “Buddie,” a sentient bud of weed who has saucy eyebrows and the body of a humanoid superhero, says she was unfairly fired for raising concerns about on-the-job safety.
The state of Ohio, which last put someone to death in January 2014, has delayed all of its scheduled executions again, until at least 2017, the Associated Press reports. The prisons department announced that it has run out of supplies of lethal injection drugs and hasn’t been able to acquire new chemicals.
Today there is one less large thing named after a man from Ohio, and the other men from Ohio are hopping mad. “Our beloved Ohio man needs his name on the large thing,” they cry. Their cries fall on deaf ears: Alaska’s Mt. McKinley is now Denali.
Former Ohio resident John Felton was pulled over by Dayton police in front of his mom’s house after he allegedly activated his turn signal less than 100 feet before making a right turn. Unable to believe an officer would stop him on such a piddling technicality, Felton asked the officer why he was really followed for…
