Jim Traficant

Ohio is no stranger to scandal.In fact, it's been reported that, as of today, no state in the Union has a bigger scandal than the $61 million bribery case that federal prosecutors have brought against former Ohio Speaker Larry Householder and his associates for pushing a $1.3 billion bailout of Akron-based First Energy for two failing nuclear power plants.

A lot of people are looking to understand the forces that may be at work in this year’s presidential election. Author David Giffels believes Ohio holds…

There may be no better place to understand the results of the last presidential election than the Mahoning Valley. For his upcoming book, Barnstorming…

Here are your morning headlines for Friday, April 5:New law requires schools notify parents of absent kids;Ryan announces 2020 run;Chapel Hill Mall…