NEW CONCORD, Ohio, Aug. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- The 2010 annual meeting of the International Alliance for Invitational Education (IAIE), Successful Schools: Global and Personal Perspectives, will be held in Columbus September 29 through October 2.

WEST CHESTER, Ohio, March 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- AK Steel (NYSE: AKS) said that its Zanesville (OH) Works today received three awards for outstanding safety performance from the Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation, division of Safety and Hygiene.

Bonnie Jean Gist Longaberger, the matriarch of the Longaberger basket-weaving company, has died in Ohio at the age of 100, the company announced. Chief Executive Officer Tami Longaberger wrote on the Longaberger Web site that the woman known affectionately as Grandma Bonnie had been the embodiment of the values behind the Ohio company. It amazed her that Longaberger baskets could be made with such love and care, and be cherished by so many from so far away.

By Julie Carr Smyth COLUMBUS, Ohio - Residents of a mostly black neighborhood were awarded nearly $11 million Thursday by a federal jury that found local authorities denied them public water service for decades out of racial discrimination.

By Randy Ludlow, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio Jul. 11--Once the jury had left the courtroom, Freddie Martin and others draped arms around one another's shoulders and offered a prayer of thanks. After a seven-week trial in U.S.