COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - The Ohio Department of Health has corrected a report on the impact of the statewide smoking ban following questions by a state senator.

CLEVELAND (AP) - Washington has reversed course on a grant that would allow Ohio to study leasing its Turnpike but says it would consider a revised request.

MOOREFIELD, W.V. (AP) - Officials say the three people who were on board a plane that crashed in eastern West Virginia are dead.

CHARLESTON, W.V. (AP) - The state Division of Culture and History has set the dates for next year's History Bowl competitions.

CHARLESTON, W.V. (AP) - The state Division of Natural Resources is forecasting solid hunts for raccoons and ruffed grouse this season in West Virginia.

CHARLESTON, W.V. (AP) - West Virginia officials will soon end up in court over the recent redrawing of legislative and congressional districts.

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) - The search for a plane that went missing along the Virginia-West Virginia border has expanded to a third county, but authorities say there's still no sign of it.

DAYTON, Ohio (AP) - A man and a woman accused of duct-taping the woman's 3-year-old child and recording the incident on a cell phone have been sentenced to prison.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - The Division of Natural Resources has awarded 1,175 permits for limited antlerless deer hunts around West Virginia.

MOUNT VERNON, Ohio (AP) - A judge has upheld the firing of a central Ohio public school science teacher accused of preaching religious beliefs in class and of keeping a Bible on his desk.

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (AP) - Ohio's top election official, a Republican, has blocked the nomination of the Democratic county chairman in Youngstown to serve on the county elections board.

SNOWSHOE, W.Va. (AP) - Winter has arrived a bit early and with a vengeance at some of West Virginia's highest elevations.

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court has turned away another appeal from an Ohio judge who wanted to display a poster containing the Ten Commandments in his courtroom.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - Acting Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin and Republican Bill Maloney are reaching out to voters as each hopes to win West Virginia's special election for governor.

FAIRMONT, W.Va. (AP) - State Farm says West Virginia continues to be the most likely state where deer and vehicles collide.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - A program that helps low-income West Virginia households pay utility bills is taking applications.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Nine condemned Ohio inmates are once again asking a federal judge to find the state's rules for carrying out executions unconstitutional.

EMPORIA, Kan. (AP) - Tyson Fresh Meats Inc. is recalling about 131,300 pounds of ground beef that might be contaminated with E. coli.

CLEVELAND (AP) - Former Democratic Gov. Ted Strickland says he's not ruling out a bid to return that job.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - In West Virginia's special election for governor, acting Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin is trumpeting the support of the man who last held the job.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - The Ohio Senate has approved a bill that contains new requirements before a minor can be allowed to have an abortion without her parents agreeing to it.

WESTON, W.V. (AP) - The president of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children says efforts to find a 3-year-old Lewis County girl have been extraordinary.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - West Virginia's major party candidates for governor have both campaigned against non-real estate property taxes. But each faces a major hurdle to following through: the state constitution.

BELLE, W.Va. (AP) - DuPont is trying to determine what sickened three workers at its plant in Belle.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - Early and absentee ballots have topped 23,000 in West Virginia's special gubernatorial election.