News and insights from the latest State Signals newsletter. Plus, why advocates say a common autism therapy is out of reach.

Gov. Mike DeWine’s Medicaid department is moving to standardize rules for ABA Therapy after years of what advocates call “The Wild West.” ...

Jails are overrun with people on drugs, struggling with mental illness and poor health. How are sheriffs handling the challenges?

Black women in the U.S. died at a rate nearly 3.5 times higher white women around the time of childbirth in 2023, as maternal ...

Reginald Foster III is in police custody for the mass shooting Tuesday night at an Ohio warehouse that killed one person and wounded five.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Some Head Start preschools around the country could be at risk of closing temporarily because they remain ...

For the first time in over a century, two freshmen senators represent Ohio: Sens. Bernie Moreno and Jon Husted.

Trump's transgender policy represents an abrupt change from the Biden administration, which sought to explicitly extend civil ...

The report looks at five different factors, and in at least four, all three states in our region received failing grades.

Arizona's Medicaid program is called the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System, or AHCCCS (pronounced "access"). It is ...

While the last Ohio General Assembly approved of ― and Gov. Mike DeWine recently signed into law ― the Strong Foundations Act in House Bill 7, more improvements lie ahead while the state still sees ...