Peggy Lehner

The Ohio Senate has given final approval to a controversial ‘Stand your ground” bill that would do away with the “duty to retreat” before using a gun in in self-defense.

Seventeen people were executed during former Governor Ted Strickland’s four years in office. Now he is officially joining the effort to repeal capital…

For the first time since November, a Senate committee heard testimony on a bill to eliminate the time limit on prosecuting rapes.Jane Bryan is still…

The number of public school buildings where students will be eligible for the state’s largest private school voucher program will more than double in the…

The Ohio Senate has sent to the House two controversial abortion bills. One involves abortion reversal, a practice that is not backed by mainstream…

A Senate committee has advanced a bill that would create more options for high school seniors to graduate. If the full House and Senate approve, it would…

With many Ohio students back in school, officials and lawmakers are hoping to prevent a possible crisis in education like the one that had them scrambling…

The Ohio House and Senate sent two bills to the governor that attempt to clean up the state’s online charter school system. Lawmakers from both sides of…

The leaders of the Ohio House and Senate education committees are taking different stances on whether to extend changes to high-school graduation…

A state senator wants to toss out the idea of expulsions for kids who are in third grade or younger. The lawmaker says this can go a long way to closing…