Frustrated by campus-area partiers, Airbnb renters and other groups gathering despite state-issues directives to maintain social distancing in the face of the coronavirus pandemic, Columbus City Attorney Zach Klein is telling Columbus police of skip the warnings and start writing tickets.
The state has sued a man from Chagrin Falls and his co-conspirators for hoarding the badly needed N95 respirator masks and selling them on eBay for nearly 18 times their pre-pandemic retail price.
Gov. Mike DeWine is not getting directly involved in the brewing constitutional dispute between governors from both parties and President Donald Trump over who has the authority to reopen the economy.
Gov. Mike DeWine has asked state health director Dr. Amy Acton to issue an order requiring nursing homes and other long-term care facilities in the state to notify residents and families within 24 hours of a resident or staff member becoming infected.
Thirsty Pennsylvanians can no longer cross into Ohio to buy liquor, at least not without driving a little farther west.
Reminiscent of the Like the ice-bucket challenge of a few years ago, which raised funds for ALS research, a Columbus DJ has started a similar social media campaign to support a local organization supplying food to hospital workers during the coronavirus pandemic.
Officials say that the number of coronavirus infections in Ohio’s prisons has topped 160 and that the first inmate has died.
Columbus Public Health is steering a new initiative to reduce racial health inequities exposed by the coronavirus pandemic.
Columbus police say they had to break up two parties held on the South Side over the weekend in defiance of stay-at-home orders and directives limiting gatherings to 10 people or less.
Ohio’s nursing homes have seen at least 45 deaths from the coronavirus. But the overall total across the state remains unknown.
