Associated Press By Seth Borenstein Posted February 2nd 2012   WASHINGTON (AP) — Snow has been missing in action for much of the U.S. the last couple months. But it’s not just snow. It’s practically the season that’s gone AWOL. “What winter?” asked Mike Halpert, deputy director of the National Weather Service’s Climate Prediction Center. [...]

Cuyahoga County Executive Posted February 1st 2012 (PHOTO: MAYOR GARY NORTON, EAST CLEVELAND) CLEVELAND – Cuyahoga County Executive Ed FitzGerald announced today a new plan for county roadway infrastructure projects, offering a two-year moratorium on the required local funding match for such projects in an effort to pro-actively address the needs of all County, State [...]

Associated Press Posted January 31st 2012 (PHOTO: SPECTRUM GAMING MANAGING DIRECTORS FREDRIC GUSHIN AND MICHAEL POLLOCK)   COLUMBUS: Invoices show the consultant helping Ohio develop rules and regulations related to its four new casinos charged the state more than $1.5 million in 2011. More than $1.4 million of the costs for Atlantic City, N.J.-based Spectrum [...]

Politico.com By MJ Lee Posted January 31sr 2012     Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.), whose comment over the weekend directed at President Barack Obama and Democratic leaders in Congress to “get the hell out” of America sparked an uproar, defended his remarks Tuesday as he chided a CNN reporter for misrepresenting his words. “I don’t [...]

Associated Press Posted January 30th 2012   COLUMBUS: Officials say new numbers on liquor sales suggest Ohioans are again going out to restaurants and nightspots, in a positive sign for the overall economy. The Ohio Division of Liquor Control says wholesale sales of spirits to restaurants, bars and clubs rose 4.7 percent in 2011, after [...]

Associated Press By Lisa Cromwell Posted January 29th 2012   CINCINNATI: The state attorney general says sweepstakes scams cost Ohioans about $2 million last year as gauged by complaints to his office’s consumer protection section. Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine said in a release Thursday that the section logged about 1,500 complaints about sweepstakes and [...]

HuffingtonPost.com Posted January 29th 2012 (PHOTO: ORLY TAITZ, BIRTHER ACTIVIST)   A hearing to determine whether President Barack Obama is eligible to be on the primary ballot in Georgia took place on Thursday, with the defendants, Obama and his legal team, notably absent. Georgia Deputy Chief Judge Michael Malihi subpoenaed the president last week after [...]

Associated Press Posted January 26th 2012     COLUMBUS: Former Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland says Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney should release 12 years of tax returns, like his father did in 1968. After losing Saturday’s South Carolina primary to Newt Gingrich, Romney agreed to soon release his returns for 2010 and the first quarter [...]

TheNewsHerald.com Posted January 25th 2012   Dr. Hiroyuki Fujita, founder, president and CEO of Quality Electrodynamics in Mayfield Village sat in the box with first lady Michelle Obama for the State of the Union address on Tuesday night. Coming to America from Japan in 1988 and after receiving his Ph.D. in physics from Case Western [...]

Yahoo.com By Phoebe Connelly Posted January 25th 2012   We followed your reactions online to Tuesday’s State of the Union address by President Barack Obama. On Twitter, you were talking about the women in the room–Gabrielle Giffords was the top trending topic on Twitter at the start of the speech after her touching embrace with [...]