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Holmes County in northeastern Ohio has the worst vaccination rate in the state — just 17% — and yet, the county has the state’s lowest rate of COVID spread.

Franklin County Sheriff Dallas Baldwin enjoys showing off the new jail under construction on Columbus’ West Side and pointing out its new approach to housing inmates.

Writer Anthony Veasna So was a rising figure in the literary scene until he died in December. His stories captured the fullness of queer, Cambodian American life.

Airline travelers, there is some good news this holiday season. The Transportation Security Administration says children and the elderly won't have to remove their shoes. And you can now carry on some (but not all) snow globes. The government has some other pointers heading into a busy travel weekend.

Residents of counties that went heavily for Donald Trump in the 2020 election are more than twice as likely to die from COVID-19 than those living in areas that went for President Biden.

A U.S. civil liberties group files a lawsuit against the CIA in the case of a man who says he was kidnapped and sent to Afghanistan to be interrogated as a terrorism suspect. The ACLU suit is the first legal challenge of a practice known as "extraordinary rendition."

Two 20-year-old Duke University lacrosse players were arrested early Tuesday on charges of raping and kidnapping a stripper hired to dance at an off-campus party.

President Ibrahim Rugova is mourned in Kosovo by ethnic Albanians he led and by European and U.S. officials who hailed him as a voice of moderation in the turbulent Balkans. Talks on the future of Kosovo have been delayed until February.

The G8 group of industrialized nations wipes out $40 billion in debt owed by 18 poor nations. Most are in sub-Saharan Africa. Some observers say much bigger steps are still needed. British officials will push for a larger effort at G8 talks in Scotland, coming in July.

Sunni Arab demonstrators take to the streets of Baghdad and other cities Friday, protesting alleged fraud in last week's parliamentary elections. Sunni political groups have demanded new elections for Baghdad province and are threatening to boycott the new parliament.