Josh Sweigart

A Springfield police officer is facing his third OVI charge in a five-year period following a Friday traffic stop by the Ohio State Highway Patrol.

Clark County paid 51 employees more than $100,000 each in 2022, according to the Payroll Project by the News-Sun.

The city of Springfield paid 42 employees more than $100,000 each in 2022, according to the Payroll Project, an annual reporting project from the Springfield News-Sun.

The Dayton Daily News obtained and analyzed data from the Ohio Department of Health to identify what percentage of kindergarten students at schools across Ohio obtained required vaccinations during the COVID-19 pandemic. Our investigation found that vaccination rates dropped across the state — consi…

The state of Ohio spent less than 40% of the $310 million state leaders set aside last year to assist restaurants, hotels, performance venues and new small businesses impacted by the pandemic, a Dayton Daily News investigation found.

Editor’s note: This story is part of a Dayton Daily News investigative project titled Billions in COVID aid: Where it’s going. Go here for more on this project, including searchable databases showing how your community spent CARES Act funds and now much it is getting in American Rescue Plan funds.

Editor’s note: This story is part of a Dayton Daily News investigative project titled Billions in COVID aid: Where it’s going. Go here for more on this project, including searchable databases showing how your community spent CARES Act funds and now much it is getting in American Rescue Plan funds.

Some local county health departments are again offering $100 gift cards to encourage people to get COVID-19 vaccines, but most passed on obtaining federal money for the incentives.

Cash incentives have encouraged people to get the COVID-19 vaccine, large employers and local public health officials said, but public health funds for incentives have dried up and smaller businesses say they can’t afford them amid this tight labor market.

Two contractors at the Ohio Bureau of Workers Compensation were paid for nearly 250 hours they didn’t work, according to a state audit released Tuesday.