Julie Carr Smyth

Associated Press

Summit county executive Ilene Shapiro speaks to the media outside the U.S. Federal courthouse, Monday, Oct. 21, in Cleveland.

Companies Reach $260M Deal to Settle Opioids Lawsuit

The settlement ends only the suits brought by the Ohio counties of Cuyahoga and Summit.

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Fish in River That Caught Fire OK'd for Dinner

The Cuyahoga River became synonymous with pollution when it caught fire in Cleveland in 1969.

General Motors CEO Mary Barra speaks to reporters after a meeting with Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, and Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, to discuss GM's announcement it would stop making the Chevy Cruze at its Lordstown, Ohio, plant, part of a massive restructuring for the Detroit-based automaker, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2018.

Officials Meet with GM CEO Over Plant

"We are trying to do the right thing," said CEO Mary Barra.

Governor John Kasich addressed Sean Kim and Kongkrapan Intarajang, chief operating officer for upstream petrochemical business at PTT Global Chemical Public Company Limited, at a news conference about the Belmont County project March 12, 2018.

Korean Firm Joins OH Ethane Project

The proposed petrochemical plant has idled in the planning stages for years.

High-tech Ideas to Fix Opioid Crisis

More than 40 ideas compete for grant money in Ohio.

Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine speaks during a prenwss conference at the Attorney General's office in Columbus, Ohio on Wednesday, May 31, 2017. The Ohio Attorney General sued five drugmakers for their alleged role perpetrating the state's addictions epidemic, accusing the companies of intentionally misleading patients about the dangers of painkillers and promoting benefits of the drugs not backed by science.

OH Sues Drugmakers Over Opioid Crisis

A record 3,050 Ohioans died from drug overdoses in 2015, a figure expected to jump sharply once 2016 figures are tallied.

In this April 4, 2017, file photo, plumes of steam drift from the cooling tower of FirstEnergy Corp.'s Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station in Oak Harbor, Ohio. Opponents of a proposed bailout of Ohio's two nuclear plants are praising a Wednesday, May 17, 2017, decision in the state House Public Utilities Committee to suspend testimony on a bill criticized by consumer, business and energy groups, even as FirstEnergy Corp., based in Akron, Ohio, continues to push for the deal.

State Scraps Nuclear Plant Bailout Talks

The plan called for a special fee charged to customers that the company argues is necessary to secure the future of its aging Davis-Besse and Perry plants.

In this September 1980 file photo, a Jones and Laughlin Steel Corp. coke plant is wreathed in smoke and steam in Struthers, Ohio. Republican Ohio Gov. John Kasich has made it his mission to send Ohio's 'Rust Belt' label to the scrap heap of history, but it's been repeated and entrenched over more than 30 years since the steel industry's devastation in the 1970s and 1980s by foreign competition and environmental regulation, leaving behind abandoned, rusting mills and unemployment.

Gov. Works to Rid OH of 'Rust Belt'

Kasich says he wants to change the image of Ohio "from the Rust Belt to the Knowledge Belt."

In this Wednesday, March 9, 2016, photo, the NSX, Acura's next-generation supercar, sits in the final inspection room in Acura's new Performance Manufacturing Center in Marysville, Ohio.

Acura Brings NSX Specialty Car Production to U.S.

The 2017 NSX features a 3.5-liter twin-turbocharged V-6 engine with 573 horsepower that is hand-built in...