COLUMBUS -- Ohio is spending $18,000 in overtime to erase a backlog in the processing of mail-in vehicle registrations.

MASON, Ohio -- The wife of an Army soldier says she listened in horror as her husband's cell phone picked up the screams and gunfire from the deadly shooting at Fort Hood, Texas.

PATASKALA, Ohio -- Police say an Ohio man sent a letter to a business associate saying his family would soon be dead and then fatally shot his wife, son and himself.

COLUMBUS -- Ohio Governor Ted Strickland has ordered all state flags at public buildings and grounds to be flown at half-staff until sunset on Tuesday, Nov. 10, in honor of the victims of the Fort Hood tragedy.
CLEVELAND -- State health officials have agreed to ease their recommendation that health care workers wear snug-fitting respirator masks when dealing with swine flu.
DAYTON, Ohio -- Dayton Mayor Rhine McLin says she thinks she lost a bid for a third term because voters simply chose change.
LIMAVILLE -- Elections officials say poll workers made a mistake and provided the wrong ballot to all 42 people who voted Tuesday in a small town in northeast Ohio.

NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- The family of a Connecticut woman mauled and blinded by a chimpanzee is seeking to sue the state of Connecticut for $150 million.
OXFORD -- A 20-year-old man in a breathalyzer costume found himself blowing into one after southwest Ohio police stopped him for allegedly driving the wrong way with no headlights on a one-way street Halloween night.

SANDUSKY, Ohio -- Cedar Fair Entertainment Co., owner of Cedar Point here and Geauga Lake Wildwater Kingdom in Aurora, says it will not make any cash distribution in 2010 to the owners who hold unit shares in the company as a result of lower revenues at its parks.
INDIANAPOLIS -- A new report says Indiana could lose $100 million in gambling taxes in the first year after four Ohio casinos authorized in a Tuesday referendum open.
BOISE, ID -- A U.S. streetcar revival fared well on election night Tuesday, with pro-trolley mayoral candidates in Cincinnati and Charlotte, N.C. winning and a critic of a proposal in Boise going down to defeat.

COLUMBUS -- Ohio voters hit hard by the economic downturn have approved casinos on the fifth try by gambling supporters in the past two decades.
NEW YORK -- An Ohio woman who was implanted with the wrong embryo says she hopes to visit soon with the baby boy she delivered and turned over to his biological parents.

COLUMBUS -- Voters in a number of Ohio communities have come to the aid of public libraries that have been cutting hours and staff due to state budget cuts.

COLUMBUS -- Ohio voters have opened their wallets to veterans, easily approving bonuses of up to $1,000 for those who served in the Persian Gulf, Afghanistan or Iraq.
Northeast Ohio election results

COLUMBUS -- Ohio voters have delivered a victory to large farm operators, approving a new industry-dominated board to oversee livestock care.
Northeast Ohio election results

CINCINNATI -- Police say a Cincinnati officer was taken to the hospital after his cruiser flipped over onto its roof during a chase on an interstate highway.

KENT, Ohio -- A Kent man complains that police used a stun gun on him and then arrested him while he tried to rescue family members from a house fire.
CLYDE -- A former schools chief accused of stealing nearly $300,000 from his northwest Ohio district has pleaded guilty to 10 felonies.