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The Republican candidate, Secretary of State Brian Kemp, is the state's top election official. He's been criticized for not doing enough to secure Georgia's voting systems.

Massachusetts has one of the highest rates of aging prisoners in the nation. A new law would allow parole for prisoners who can prove they are physically or cognitively incapacitated.

Businesses like Amazon and McDonald's are building offices near bus and train lines to attract and keep top talent in a tight labor market.

Julie Grant, The Allegheny Front Along the Ohio River, anticipation is mounting for the next phase of the natural gas industry. Beyond cheap electricity, Ohio is looking to use shale gas to rebuild its manufacturing base. The Ohio Valley has long been known for coal and making steel, but the future, according to some predictions, is natural gas and plastics. Richard Regula, is a commissioner in Stark County, Ohio, and is working to expand the petrochemical industry.

At a rest stop in Mexico City, adults are treated for respiratory and stomach bugs. Their feet are in bad shape. There's anxiety and fear among adults and children. But ... definitely no smallpox.

As part of ideastream's You First initiative, we asked Ohioans what issues will guide their vote this election. Environmental concerns including Lake Erie algae, climate change, and fracking were among the responses. So where do the major party candidates for governor stand on environmental issues? Fracking and Renewable Energy 28-year-old Alex Mahy of Oberlin lists healthcare and the environment as his top two issues. He cites a concern for pollution, greenhouse gases, and fracking, which he says poisons well water and groundwater.

Public health officials says it's simple to save the lives of people experiencing an opioid overdose: Give an antidote. But for a bystander, that intervention can be daunting.

M.L. Schultze Fewer than one in three kids in poor families in Ohio start kindergarten with the skills they need — things like counting, rhyming and sounding letters into words. So in high-poverty urban districts like Canton and its rural counterparts like Minerva, the achievement gap can seem like it’s locked in. For the last 15 years, an effort called SPARK has been underway to change that — one hour at a time. And the first group of kids who launched the program are now getting ready to graduate.

Over the course of nearly ten years, Elizabeth Perez has been fighting the immigration system on behalf of her undocumented husband, Marcos. He was deported after a traffic stop in 2010. Perez is a Cleveland Heights Marine veteran, and a mother of four, and is featured in the film “Marcos Doesn’t Live Here Anymore,” from FRONTLINE, Independent Lens and VOCES, airing Monday, April 15 at 9 p.m. on WVIZ/PBS.

This Saturday (May 19) the Friends of the Cleveland Kennel is holding its annual art auction at Gray’s Armory with benefits going to the dogs. It’s a big annual fundraiser for the Cleveland Kennel. But more important to the dogs is what volunteers do for them every single week. That involvement has made the Cleveland Kennel one of the more innovative in the country. “This is a unique group of people. And dogs,” said Timy Sullivan of Chagrin Falls, who has seen her share of dog kennels.