John Kasich

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The office of Ohio Gov. John Kasich (KAY'-sik) says the state Department of Agriculture has ordered six exotic animals to be quarantined. That's instead of transferring them from a zoo to a woman whose suicidal husband freed...

ZANESVILLE, Ohio -- The state of Ohio intervened on Thursday to stop six exotic animals from being transferred back to the widow of the man who released them and dozens of other creatures last week shortly before killing himself. The Ohio Department of...

The Big One is still 52 weeks away, but the results from a host of local elections today may offer fresh clues about the state of play in politics just as the presidential nominating process is set to begin. At stake on this "off-year" general election...

Democrats and liberal activists officially launched a campaign Tuesday to recall Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, an effort rooted in the Republican's successful effort to pass legislation stripping public employees of collective bargaining rights. And...

The latest local and state elections results suggest that voters have second thoughts about the tea party’s political agenda. Consider the following: • In Ohio, unions scored a victory. Voters elected tea party-backed John Kasich as their...

Somebody needs to break the news to the Republican candidates looking to unseat President Barack Obama that the conservative tide that swept the nation in 2010 has receded. Denying public employees the right to bargain collectively and calling for...

Marcy Kaptur has 11 House terms; Dennis Kucinich has eight. One of them will retire after 2012....

If you want to get to know someone, spend a day with them doing something you both enjoy. That’s the philosophy behind a Washington golf outing this weekend.  President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner put partisanship aside, at least...

Gov. Rick Scott told an audience of Republican state officials from around the country Thursday that his first year in office had been a success, and Democrats were “shocked” he had kept campaign pledges to go after teacher tenure, cut taxes...

TALLAHASSEE — The Democratic-affiliated Public Policy Polling shop out of North Carolina has a new poll out on Gov. Rick Scott  that finds only 36percent of  Florida voters approve of him while 52 percent do not. The good news? It sure beats their...

An Eight-Point Bump ... ... among Pennsylvania's female voters has nabbed Gov. Tom Corbett his best approval rating ever, a new Quinnipiac University poll out this morning shows. The Guv's at a 50-32 percent approval rating among all voters, up from a 44-...