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The state of Ohio has its first $600,000 man.Taking advantage of special provisions in the union contract, psychiatrist Zinovi Goubar made more than $650,000 in 2018, including nearly $372,000 for overtime, a state payroll database obtained annually by The Dispatch shows. Goubar, paid about $110 an hour, earned $590,000 in 2017, and has now been Ohio’s highest-paid non-university state employee for nine straight years.In fact, 21 of the top 22 earners worked for the Ohio […]

WASHINGTON — A key part of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation centered on what happened in Ohio almost three years ago.But President Donald Trump told investigators he could not recall being involved in successful efforts by his campaign aides before the 2016 Republican convention in Cleveland to weaken an anti-Russian plank in the party’s platform.In the report detailing the probe into whether Russian officials attempted to damage the candidacy […]

WASHINGTON — Ohio State University will join a federal effort aimed at reducing opioid deaths in hard-hit Ohio communities by 40 percent over the next three years.U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar II announced on Thursday that the university will receive a $65.9 million federal research grant as part of a $350 million-plus larger study aimed at reducing opioid deaths.Ohio State will lead an Ohio consortium that will use real-time research to target […]

WASHINGTON — A long-awaited report by Special Counsel Robert Mueller raised questions about how President Donald Trump responded to allegations that the Russian government had interfered in the 2016 elections but concluded that while a “sitting president” could not be indicted, it could not exactly clear his name.”If we had confidence after a thorough investigation of the facts that the president clearly did not commit obstruction of justice, we would so […]