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Congressman Warren Davidson speaks during a groundbreaking ceremony held Wednesday, July 31, 2024 for the USS Cincinnati Memorial and Peace Pavillion between Voice of America Park and The National Voice of America Museum of Broadcasting in West Chester Township. NICK GRAHAM/STAFF

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Area Reps. Davidson, Jordan back Trump call to impeach federal judges

Offices of Transformational & Inclusive Excellence on Miami University campus Tuesday, March 4, 2025 in Oxford. NICK GRAHAM/STAFF

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Ohio House approves bill to ban DEI on college campuses, outlaw faculty strikes

$The Wright Flyer III sculpture was put in place Tuesday morning Feb. 28, 2023, at Edwin C. Moses Boulevard and West Third Street. The Wright Flyer III artwork was on display in downtown Dayton on East Monument Avenue for about two decades before it was removed in summer 2020. MARSHALL GORBY\STAFF$

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Wright brothers' record-setting Flyer III becomes Ohio’s official aircraft

A marijuana dispensary in Adrian, Michigan sells cannabis to an Ohio customer shortly before the 2023 vote in which Ohioans legalized recreational marijuana. JIM NOELKER/STAFF

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Centerville bans recreational cannabis dispensaries, keeps medical options open

FILE - The William McKinley Monument is silhouetted in front of the west side of the Ohio Statehouse, Monday, April 15, 2024.(AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

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Ohio Republicans push for more work hours for 14-, 15-year-olds

Dayton voters face May runoff for city commission; mayor race set for November

Sen. Bernie Moreno, speaking to a Dayton Area Chamber of Commerce audience at the NCR County Club Tuesday March 18, 2025. THOMAS GNAU/Staff Writer

Sen. Moreno praises Wright-Patt, ‘efficiency’ efforts in chamber address

FILE - An email from July 10, 2018, with the syllabus about Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch teaching an upcoming law class in Italy is photographed, July 10, 2023. An Associated Press examination of the ethics practices of the U.S. Supreme Court relied on documents obtained from more than 100 public records requests to public colleges, universities and other institutions that have hosted the justices over the past decade. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick, File)

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Sunshine Week: 9 key takeaways from our reporting on government transparency

Second grade students in Missy Fairs' at Weller Elementary in Centerville recite the Pledge of Allegiance on Wednesday morning. A bill pending in the Ohio House would require public schools to pick a daily time to recite the pledge of allegiance. BRYANT BILLING / STAFF

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Ohio bill would mandate daily Pledge of Allegiance in public schools

Senate Majority Leader Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., walks from the Senate chamber as the Senate works to avert a partial government shutdown ahead of the midnight deadline, at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, March 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

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Senate approves funding bill hours before shutdown deadline: What’s next

President Donald Trump speaks to reporters during a meeting with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte at the White House in Washington, Thursday, March 13, 2025. (Pool via AP)

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How do federal actions impact southwest Ohio this week? Here’s a roundup

Elon Musk flashes his t-shirt that reads "DOGE" to the media as he walks on South Lawn of the White House, in Washington, Sunday, March 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

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Ohio lawmakers form DOGE caucus, won’t be wielding chainsaw

FILE - In this April 23, 2020, file photo, President Donald Trump’s name is seen on a stimulus check issued by the IRS to help combat the adverse economic effects of the COVID-19 outbreak. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Will you be getting a $5,000 DOGE dividend check? Here’s what we know

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine greets guest before he gives the State of the State address in the Ohio House chambers at the Ohio Statehouse on Wednesday, March 12, 2025 in Columbus, Ohio. (Samantha Madar/The Columbus Dispatch via AP, Pool)

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DeWine says Ohio’s in ‘strong’ position in his second-to-last State of the State address

$Though dead and brown right now, Beavercreek resident Patricia Lozano is preparing for a summer where her yard is full of green, flowering native plants, after changes to Beavercreek's lawn ordinances. MARSHALL GORBY \STAFF$

Beavercreek lawn/landscape ordinance is called ‘compromise,’ but frustrates some

Michael Goldstick, an owner and sales manager at Guided By Mushrooms, talks about golden oyster mushrooms at the company's farm in New Lebanon on Tuesday. BRYANT BILLING / STAFF

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USDA program cut impacts local food banks, local farmers

FILE - The William McKinley Monument is silhouetted in front of the west side of the Ohio Statehouse, Monday, April 15, 2024, in Columbus, Ohio. Republican legislative leaders in Ohio say they are negotiating with Democrats to assure President Joe Biden appears on the state's November ballot, but the exact shape of the solution remains murky. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

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Ohio Senate committee asks for Trump support on proposed Medicaid work requirements

FILE - A copy of the Ten Commandments is posted along with other historical documents in a hallway of the Georgia Capitol, June 20, 2024, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/John Bazemore, File)

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Ohio bill would require a state-approved historical document in every classroom

Students walk to classes at Miami University campus Tuesday, March 4, 2025 in Oxford. NICK GRAHAM/STAFF

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DEI at Ohio public universities: 5 takeaways from our investigation

The Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse in downtown Dayton. CORNELIUS FROLIK / STAFF

Ohio has 83K federal civilian employees, many in region: DOGE job cuts could hurt

A rally was held at Courthouse Square Saturday, March 8 in celebration of International Women's Day. Photo by Russell Florence Jr.

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‘Together we will prevail’: Crowd turns out for International Women’s Day rally

A 65-year-old woman was transported by medical helicopter after she fell about 40 feet while hiking in Glen Helen Nature Preserve in Yellow Springs Friday, Aug. 12, 2011, according to Denny Powell, assistant chief for Miami Twp. Fire and Rescue.

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Yellow Springs fire chief suspended: Records reveal allegations

Dayton City Commissioner Shenise Turner-Sloss talks during a city commission work session. Turner-Sloss plans to run for Dayton mayor against Jeffrey Mims Jr., who is pictured here at far left, with Commissioner Matt Joseph. CORNELIUS FROLIK / STAFF

Turner-Sloss to run for Dayton mayor vs. Mims; 5 file for city commission race

Clayton city council gave a developer rezoning approval in a plan to build more than 500 homes on vacant land south of Sweet Potato Ridge Road, just across the street from a suburban development in the neighboring city of Union. MARSHALL GORBY / STAFF

Clayton council OKs huge 529-home development in third vote; tension continues

Ohio House transportation budget shaped by Joby Aviation’s new-age aircraft

Flowering cannibus plants at the Pure Ohio Wellness cultivation at production facility in Clark County Monday, Dec. 4, 2023. BILL LACKEY/STAFF

Ohio House’s cannabis overhaul would regulate hemp; preserve home-grow limits

From left: Republicans Anita Swan and Jan Basham, Democrats Wendy Dyer and Kim McCarthy, and Acting Board of Elections Director Jordan Huber at the second half of the Greene County Board of Elections reorganization meeting, Wednesday March 5, 2025. LONDON BISHOP/STAFF

Ohio Secretary of State to intervene in Greene County elections director vote

Elon Musk leaves after meeting with Senate Republicans, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, March 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

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Area federal properties on DOGE list of terminated leases

$Carly Risenhoover-Peterson at the Civil War monument at Main and Monument in downtown Dayton. MARSHALL GORBY\STAFF$

Uncertainty for local federal workers amid ‘largest mass layoff’ in US history

President Donald Trump delivers an address to a joint session of Congress at the Capitol in Washington, on Tuesday, March 4, 2025. In a speech to Congress in his first weeks in office, the president laid out his vision to remake U.S. policy on the military, trade, immigration and foreign aid. (Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times)

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Trump rips Springfield immigration in speech; Mayor Rue pushes back

$Students at the Fairborn Intermediate School head back to class after lunch. Advocates are making a public push for Ohio to begin providing free school breakfasts and lunches for all public school students at an estimated cost of about $300 million per year. MARSHALL GORBY\STAFF$

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Ohio House ponders $300M for free school breakfasts, lunches

From left: Republicans Anita Swan and Jan Basham, and Democrats Wendy Dyer and Kim McCarthy of the Greene County Board of Elections at their reorganization meeting, Tuesday March 4, 2025. LONDON BISHOP/STAFF

‘Unprecedented:’ Greene County Elections Board stalls on hiring director