Ohio

Video from Columbus, Ohio shows dozens of police officers aggressively dispersing a crowd with pepper spray, including a man who is a double amputee.

"I think that black and white people they should be treated the same and I wanted to show my support," 9-year-old Mira Acklin said.

"Don't let tradition define what you interpret your truth as. Names are fluid. After all, New York was once New Amsterdam. Istanbul was once Constantinople. Tradition is just peer-pressure from the dead. Embrace your truth, and live it as loudly as Guy Fieri would want you to."

The woman told the officer that she was "not a fan of stalking and harassment" and that he had "no business" looking up her information.

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Democrat representative Juanita Brent proposed an amendment banning the imagery which was voted down by a committee in Ohio's house of representatives.

Those present at the health committee meeting reportedly cringed at the comments by Ohio Sen. Steve Huffman, who is also a doctor.

A Minneapolis pizza restaurant has suspended its police discount and said: "The discount was a privilege we extended to them, it is not a right."

The individual was removed from all National Guard missions "effective immediately," Ohio Governor Mike DeWine said Friday.

Several cities, including Washington, D.C., Denver and Phoenix, have imposed curfews amid violent protests erupting across the country.

The Capitol Square Review and Advisory Board, which maintains the Statehouse, is still assessing the cost of the damage from rioters Thursday.

More than 15 abortion-related laws were passed in Ohio between 2010 to 2018.

DeWine responded to North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum's recent statement about "mask shaming" during an interview Sunday morning.

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine is also hoping to reopen schools in the fall but warned that precautionary measures would need to be in place.

"Creating more uncertainty regarding public health and employee safety is the last thing we need as we work to restore consumer confidence in Ohio's economy," DeWine said.

Governor Mike DeWine announced significant reductions in state spending to schools, colleges, Medicaid programs and government agencies on Tuesday.

"That's the image of God right there," Vitale said in a video, "and I want to see it in my brothers and sisters."

Mike DeWine described the reasoning behind his decision to pull back on a previous mandate requiring customers and employees to wear face masks, as retail stores reopen across the state.

Ohio Governor Mike DeWine said Thursday that his stay-at-home order, which had been set to expire on Friday, will be extended for an undetermined time, although many retail stores will be able to reopen on May 12.

Tina Reeves, who worked at the Pickaway Correctional Institution in Orient, Ohio died of COVID-19, the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction said.

Governor Mike DeWine provided detailed guidelines for workplaces permitted to resume operations over the next two weeks, which include continued physical distancing measures and mandatory face coverings.

The family of an Ohio man who died of coronavirus after calling it a "political ploy" cancelled a livestream of the man's funeral after facing backlash online.

"It was disgusting. It was vile," Governor Mike DeWine said Wednesday about an anti-Semitic sign seen during a coronavirus protest outside the Ohio statehouse last weekend.

At-risk inmates must be evaluated immediately for release or transfer from the federal prison, where 52 inmates and 46 staffers have tested positive for the coronavirus.

Former Ohio governors Richard Celeste and Bob Taft will help increase testing supplies with the state set to be reopened on May 1.

Reports indicate that more than 2,900 of Ohio's 11,602 coronavirus cases have been identified among inmates and staff at state and federal correctional facilities.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau estimated that, in 2016, around 70 million Americans were contacted by a debt collector.

"We want to do this in a thoughtful way that engenders confidence and ensures customers and employees are safe," Governor DeWine tweeted Thursday.

During the upcoming weekend, residents living in areas of Chicago, Ohio, Indiana, Pennsylvania and New York, could experience winter weather conditions, with the possibility of snow.

David Uible, 59, of Ohio Township, was charged on April 14 with one count of falsification, a first degree misdemeanor, and obstructing official business, a second degree misdemeanor, police said.