Ohio has flipped back and forth between parties every two elections since 1984. Following this pattern, the Buckeye state switched to blue in 2008 and 2012 but flipped red in 2016 and 2020, when former President Donald Trump took the state’s 18 electoral votes from President Joe Biden by 8 points.

Ohio’s Democratic strongholds are outperforming previous early voting records, but the counties that voted for former President Donald Trump in 2020 are ahead in ballots returned. Two weeks of early voting down,

Opponents of Ohio’s Issue 1 redistricting reform claim it would be bad for communities of color. Supporters of the proposal to replace politicians with a citizens commission point to the ways the current maps crack and pack Black voters.

The Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation (BCI) is investigating a deadly Ravenna police shooting that happened on Tuesday morning. According to a release from the Ravenna Police Department, the incident happened on Tuesday,

A person was shot and killed Tuesday morning by a Ravenna police officer. Police believe the man stabbed another man and was wielding an ax.

Authorities are investigating a fatal officer-involved shooting that happened just before noon Tuesday on the Portage Hike and Bike Trail in Ravenna.