Columbus Dispatch

Kasich, lawmakers look for budget cuts

As the long-in-the-tooth economic expansion sputters and Ohio’s anticipated tax take dwindles, its small-growth state budget is being downsized to no growth.

2 arrested in Cincinnati nightclub shooting

The father of a man hospitalized in critical condition after a Cincinnati nightclub shooting says he was elated to learn that police were charging two suspects — and then devastated to find out his son was one of them.

$390M in roadwork on the drawing board

Work will begin in April to widen congested I-270 in western Franklin County between Route 33 and Trabue Road, and in August to begin widening I-71 between Route 315 and Stringtown Road south of Columbus, two of the $390 million in projects the Ohio Department of Transportation will do this year in central Ohio, including projects already in the works.

Combating overdoses

An epidemic of drug overdoses, which claimed the lives more than 3,000 Ohioans in 2015, has drawn the attention of national and state leaders.

Hospital guards cleared in pepper spray incident

An internal investigation has determined that three OhioHealth Grant Medical Center security officers acted within company guidelines after they were seen on video are suspended after video on social media pepper spraying a man, hitting him with a baton and throwing him to the ground outside the hospital’s entrance earlier this month.