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Boxes of signatures are delivered to Republican Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose's office in downtown Columbus, Ohio, Wednesday, July 5, 2023. Advocates of enshrining abortion rights in Ohio's constitution delivered nearly double the number of signatures needed to place an amendment on fall statewide ballots. (AP Photo/Patrick Orsagos)(AP Photo/Patrick Orsagos)

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Ohio voters will decide on abortion access in November ballot
By JULIE CARR SMYTH - Associated Presss
Tue,07/25/23-1:17PM , 58 Reads
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio voters will decide this fall whether the right to an abortion should be added to the state constitution, after officials said Tuesday that enough signatures were gathered to get the proposal on the b
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Boxes of signatures are delivered to Republican Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose's office in downtown Columbus, Ohio, Wednesday, July 5, 2023. Advocates of enshrining abortion rights in Ohio's constitution delivered nearly double the number of signatures needed to place an amendment on fall statewide ballots. (AP Photo/Patrick Orsagos)

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Ohio abortion rights backers submit nearly double needed signatures for fall ballot measure
By JULIE CARR SMYTH - Associated Press
Wed,07/05/23-11:23AM , 47 Reads
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Groups hoping to enshrine abortion rights in Ohio’s constitution delivered nearly double the number of signatures needed to place an amendment on the statewide ballot this fall, aiming to signal sweeping
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Former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder walks to the Potter Stewart Federal Courthouse for his sentencing hearing, Thursday, June 29, 2023, in Cincinnati. Householder was sentenced to 20 years in prison, plus one year of probation, for his role in the largest corruption scandal in state history. (Albert Cesare/The Cincinnati Enquirer via AP)

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Ex-GOP Ohio House speaker sentenced to 20 years for role in $60M bribery scheme; appeal expected
By JULIE CARR SMYTH - Associated Press
Thu,06/29/23-1:36PM , 72 Reads
CINCINNATI (AP) — Former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder was sentenced Thursday to 20 years in prison for his role in the
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- $Supporters and opponents of a GOP-backed measure that would make it harder to amend the Ohio constitution packed the statehouse rotunda May 10, 2023, in Columbus, Ohio ahead of the politically fractured Ohio House's vote. A high-stakes August special election with national political implications is upending local election offices across Ohio. Already stressed, they must lure poll workers away from vacations, relocate polling places booked with summer weddings or maintenance, and repeatedly retes$
Supporters and opponents of a GOP-backed measure that would make it harder to amend the Ohio constitution packed the statehouse rotunda May 10, 2023, in Columbus, Ohio ahead of the politically fractured Ohio House's vote. A high-stakes August special election with national political implications is upending local election offices across Ohio. Already stressed, they must lure poll workers away from vacations, relocate polling places booked with summer weddings or maintenance, and repeatedly retest ballot language after the state’s high court found errors in the original wording. (AP Photo/Samantha Hendrickson, File)

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With abortion rights on the line, an August special election has Ohio election offices scrambling
By JULIE CARR SMYTH - Associated Press
Sun,06/25/23-11:28PM , 61 Reads
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A high-stakes August special election with national political implications is upending local election offices across Ohio, as already
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