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A state appeals court says the former Columbus city schools superintendent can't be sued in the recent attendance data-scrubbing scandal. A state appeals…

Ohio Gov. John Kasich says he hasn't given up hope that the Legislature will expand the Medicaid program under the federal health care law. The Republican…

A drop in food stamp benefits for some Ohioans won't be as steep as first feared a few weeks ago. Ohio officials say a change in the way the federal…

The fall ballot in one southeastern Ohio city won't include an initiative seeking to ban the controversial high-pressure oil and gas drilling technique of…

A lawyer in Ohio says a death row inmate who apparently hanged himself over the weekend didn't know his legal team had just received new information about…

NPR’s hit quiz show "Wait Wait... Don’t Tell Me!" has offered a non-stop diet of political news and humor throughout the campaign.

Secretary of State Colin Powell tells a Senate hearing that the recent upsurge in violence in Iraq is "disquieting" but insists the United States won't be driven out. President Bush's supporters warn that the growing criticism of U.S. policy on Iraq undercuts efforts to establish a democracy in the country. Hear NPR's David Welna.

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi vows to maintain his country's participation in the U.S.-led coalition in Iraq, despite the execution of an Italian hostage by Iraqi militants. The militants are threatening to kill three other Italian hostages seized this week if Italian troops aren't withdrawn. Hear NPR's Sylvia Poggioli.

Medical researchers have made only modest progress treating the most common cancers since the war on cancer was declared in 1971. The disease has proved far more complicated than doctors had hoped.

“You know, Miss Ruth was a lady," begins the famous line from the period film Fried Green Tomatoes. "And a lady always knows when to leave.”The same holds…