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Broward County's top elections official is telling voters not to trust the mail with their ballots this cycle. Supervisor of Elections Joe Scott says his office has fielded dozens of reports of completed ballots sitting in transit far longer than they should, and he wants residents to vote early in person or hand-deliver their ballots instead of dropping them in a mailbox.

When Isaac Ross met Madison Heights Madison football coach Kyle Gary three years ago, he told him he was a running back deserving of carries. The only problem? Ross, nicknamed “Meatball” by his coaches and teammates, is 5-foot-8, 258 pounds and built like a defensive tackle. More: Subscribe to our high school football newsletter Still, Gary took him seriously. Now, Ross is one of the key pieces to Madison’s offense, which averaged 38 points per game during the regular season. That was evident in

Detroit City Council voted unanimously in September to study whether the city should break away from DTE Energy and build its own public power utility, after storms left more than 450,000 people without electricity. The idea isn't entirely new for Detroit, which ran its own public electric utility until financial troubles tied to the city's 2013 bankruptcy forced it to shut down. Now, with outages fresh on residents' minds, the question is back on the table.

EVANSVILLE, Ind. (WEHT) — A popular Evansville bookstore has closed their doors after more than 50 years of operation. The wife of the owner of the Book Broker shared an update on social media, stating that health and financial problems have resulted in them to close the business for now. Teresa Stillabower, owner Tom Stillabower’s […]

Three killed in airborne crash on the Lodge in Detroit

The Ohio History Center, the state museum and research center beside the Ohio Expo Center in Columbus, will remain closed through 2030 while it undergoes a major rehabilitation, WOSU reported in a story published by WYSO on Oct. 30. The building shut abruptly in September over a problem with its fire-safety system, and what began […]

An 82-year-old Ohio woman reported missing in rural eastern Kentucky was found dead Friday, just hours after state troopers discovered her abandoned vehicle in the Decoy community of Knott County. Patricia Leighton, of Elyria, Ohio, had dementia, and a preliminary investigation indicates she became disoriented and walked away from her car on foot after it stopped running.

The Environmental Protection Agency’s response to the disastrous 2023 East Palestine train derailment will be investigated after dozens of residents of the small town on the Ohio-Pennsylvania and Vice President JD Vance requested the review. The Inspector General of the EPA announced the investigation Tuesday to assess the agency’s response to the worst rail disaster in more than a decade. Resident Jami Wallace said she is glad the concerns raised by people who live in the area are getting atten

COLUMBUS, Ohio — A former business manager at a Columbus charter school diverted hundreds of thousands of dollars in public school payments into her own accounts, and a state audit has now put the full price tag on the scheme: findings for recovery totaling more than $480,000 against Michelle Scott, a former employee of Westside […]

Multiple people in Ohio won big after Saturday night’s Powerball drawing.