COLUMBUS, Ohio - Six people were arrested in Columbus after 75 pounds of cocaine worth $3.4 million were seized, according to Attorney General Mike DeWine. The arrests were made after the Central Ohio Organized Crime Investigations Commission/High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area Task Force said it found evidence showing the drugs were being transported from Mexico to Columbus on a semi. Investig
Ohio Attorney General and Republican gubernatorial candidate Mike DeWine addresses supporters after winning the primary election, Tuesday, May 8, 2018, in Columbus, Ohio. (AP Photo/Bryan Woolston) By JULIE CARR SMYTH, Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) It turns out Ohios roller coaster primary season was just as tumultuous under the hood as it was on the surface, as personal loans drove on
A Cleveland Democrat pitched a legislative measure to allow Ohio municipalities to levy a tax for the purposes of covering costs of dental health of a citys most vulnerable residents. Rep. John Barnes Jr., D-Cleveland, proposed House Bill 675 to authorize imposition of a municipal property tax levy not exceeding one mill per dollar of taxable value for the purpose of funding a local Hope for a
COLUMBUS -- Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine and members of the Central Ohio Organized Crime Investigations Commission/High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) Task Force announced Monday the arrests of six people following the seizure of approximately 75 pounds of cocaine. Authorities with the task force, which is part of Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine's Ohio Organized Crime Investigatio
COLUMBUS Ohio Gov. John Kasich likened members of Congress to school children who think they need to ask permission from the principal President Trump before they take action on controversial topics such as immigration reform. He said everyone from Laura Bush to Bernie Sanders oppose the Trump administrations policy to separate children and parents when they are caught crossing the border i
An Ohio lawmaker is hoping to change the way the U.S. government buys American flags. The current law states that any American flag purchased by the government mustbe at least 50 percent made in the USA. Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown, in a re-election year, is hoping to change that. On Monday morning, from the U.S.S. Cod in downtown Cleveland, Brown announced the All-American Flag Act. The legisl
The state school boards new strategic plan for Ohio education puts development of social skills and leadership on equal footing with literacy, math and other traditional academics. The document calls a lack of equal opportunities from child to child Ohios greatest education challenge and it calls for a focus on the whole child, including physical, social, emotional and intellectual aspects. I
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) Ohio Gov. John Kasich urged fellow Republicans on Monday to use his administrations economic success to cheer people up and win votes this fall. His advice came at a news conference with his budget director and the head of JobsOhio, the states privatized economic development office, where Kasich touted a series of positive trends: Ohios job creation rate is outpacing the nati
COLUMBUS A coalition seeking to reduce gun violence across Ohio is urging lawmakers to act quickly to enact Republican Gov. John Kasichs proposed gun law changes. Groups representing students, teachers, school counselors, police chiefs, pediatricians and Catholic clergy joined a letter sent last week to state legislative leaders. The groups criticized the Legislatures seeming lack of urge
Gov. Kasich denounced President Trump's immigration policy that includes families being separated at the border, an issue that Republicans and Democrats alike have spoken out against. Kasich, who has repeatedly supported immigrants in Ohio, tweeted about the issue Friday. "Quit separating families," Kasich said in his tweet. "It's that simple." Quit separating families. It's that simp
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Thousands of children split from their families at the U.S. southern border are being held in government-run facilities. A look at how we got here, whats real and whats not, and what might happen next. HOW DID WE GET HERE? Tens of thousands of parents and children, mostly from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala, have been caught crossing the U.S.-Mexico border illegally in rec
(CNN)There is a terrified 9-year-old boy in New York City right now. He and his mother fled Honduras to come to the United States' southern border. They had hoped our country would protect them from gang violence. Instead, the Trump administration yanked them apart, detained the child's mother and sent him to a federally-contracted facility in New York.There are many like him in New York City toda
DETROIT (AP) - Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says he may return to North Korea to continue nuclear discussions before terribly long. Pompeo was speaking Monday to the Detroit Economic Club. He says theres a lot of work to do to flesh out the agreement that President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un struck in Singapore last week. Pompeo says its hard to know whether there will ne
MOREHomeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen on Monday defended her department's policies amid increasingly intense scrutiny over separating children from adults accused of illegally crossing the border.Nielsen, in a speech to the National Sheriffs Association in New Orleans, said the children are provided food, medical attention, education and anything else they might need."We have to do our
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MORELast week was a rough one for the White House: President Trump made a few questionable statements that showed admiration for a dictator known for killing his own people; press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders denied rumors that she was leaving; and former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort was locked up. Trump's response to the Manafort news? He attempted to distance himself from the scandal
(CNN)Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said it is "difficult for me to believe" that President Donald Trump did not know about any of the contacts between his campaign and Russians that took place over the course of the 2016 presidential campaign."With each subsequent revelation of yet another meeting between someone from the Trump camp and Russians, it gets harder and harder
Fired FBI Director James Comey refused to appear before Congress on Monday to talk about his handling of the Clinton email investigation, and his fired deputy, Andrew McCabe, asserted his Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination, Sen. Charles E. Grassley said. Former Attorney General Loretta Lynch also declined to show up for a major hearing where the Senate Judiciary Committee was looki
Brownsville, Texas (CNN)Democratic Reps. Ben Ray Luj¡n and Joaquin Castro on Monday called on President Donald Trump to visit the South Texas border and witness the separation between immigrant parents and children."Mr. President, if you really are in charge, pick up the phone and stop this," Luj¡n told reporters in Brownsville, Texas. "The President should come visit these children."Castro, of Te
WASHINGTON--President Donald Trump escalated a trade conflict with China Monday, asking his administration to identify a new list of $200 billion in Chinese goods that would be penalized with tariffs. The move followed tariffs applied last week on $50 billion in Chinese imports to the U.S., designed to punish China for unfair trade practices. Beijing immediately threatened to retaliate with its
NEW YORK A former CIA employee was charged Monday with stealing classified national defense information from the agency that emerged publicly in March 2017, when WikiLeaks began releasing some of the CIAs hacking tools. Joshua Adam Schulte, of Manhattan, was charged in a 13-count superseding indictment returned by a grand jury. He was expected to be arraigned on the charges on Wednesday. Accord
Former FBI director James Comey speaks during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing.(Photo: Andrew Harnik/AP)It says Comey was insubordinate in deciding to make a public statement about the investigation on July 5, 2016, and not tell his superiors in the Department of Justice about it beforehand.IG report: Comey admitted that he concealed his intentions from the Department until the morning of
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Republican candidate for California governor John Cox on Monday blasted a recent gas tax increase, previewing a central theme of his campaign message about the states high cost of living. Cox, a businessman from the San Diego area who has never held elected office, faces an uphill battle in November against Democratic Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom. Cox is the chairman of a camp
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - A bipartisan group of governors is speaking out against a Trump administration decision that could narrow access to health insurance benefits for those with pre-existing conditions. Republican Ohio Gov. John Kasich (KAY-sik), Democratic Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper and the governors of Alaska, Pennsylvania, Nevada, North Carolina, Montana, Washington and Maryland issued a
Ohio's Republican governor and fmr. 2016 competitor to Donald Trump joins to discuss the president's migrant family separation policy and politics in the age of Trump.Jun.19.2
RICHMOND, Va. A tea party group backed by billionaire conservatives plans to sit out the U.S. Senate race in Virginia. News outlets report that Americans for Prosperity has announced it wont support Republican nominee Corey Stewart as he tries to unseat incumbent Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine. The group is the main political operation funded by industrialists Charles and David Koch. It spent heavil
ANALYSIS/OPINION: Laura Bush, say it aint so. The former first lady is the latest to jump on the anti-President Donald Trump train to slam this White House over largely fabricated, media-frenzied stories of child separations at the border. In a piece for The Washington Post, she wrote: I live in a border state. I appreciate the need to enforce and protect our international boundaries, but this
(CNN)Two-thirds of Americans disapprove of the Trump administration's practice of taking undocumented immigrant children from their families and putting them in government facilities on US borders, according to a CNN poll conducted by SSRS. Only 28% approve. But among Republicans, there is majority support for the policy that has resulted in an uptick of children being separated from their familie
Republicans eyeing a run against President Trump in 2020 have eagerly joined the uproar over the treatment of illegal immigrant children at the border. They seized upon the spectacle of children taken away from parents charged with border jumping and used it as a platform to call the president and the policy shameful and heartless. But political insiders doubted the rhetoric would resonate with R
WASHINGTON--The Trump administration plans to nominate a Republican congressional staffer to lead a beleaguered financial-research agency that has been without a permanent chief since last year. The White House said it intends to pick Dino Falaschetti, chief economist for the House Financial Services Committee, to be director of the U.S. Office of Financial Research.
(CNN)Democratic Sen. Jeff Merkley called for Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen to resign Monday after accusing her of telling "a lot of whoppers" at a contentious White House press briefing where she defended the Trump administration's practice of separating children from their parents at the border.Appearing on CNN's "Erin Burnett OutFront," the Oregon senator, who had spent Father's D
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate on Monday approved a defense policy bill that includes a pay raise for the military and would block a White House plan to allow Chinese telecom giant ZTE Corp. to buy component parts from the U.S. The Chinese company is accused of violating trade laws by selling sensitive technologies to North Korea and Iran. The Trump administration announced a deal with ZTE earlier
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Latest on President Donald Trump and immigration (all times EDT): 8 p.m. Texas Sen. Ted Cruz says he is introducing emergency legislation intended to keep migrant families together. Cruz has released a statement saying: All Americans are rightly horrified by the images we are seeing on the news, children in tears pulled away from their mothers and fathers. This must stop.
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