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According to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, 30 states saw increases in overdose deaths resulting from the abuse of heroin and prescription painkillers, a class of drugs known as opioids.

An Oklahoma Republican lawmaker on Friday abandoned a measure that required public restrooms to display antiabortion signs after an outcry from business leaders and health providers who said it would cost millions of dollars.

Republican Sen. A.J. Griffin, who had sponsored the original bill passed by the Legislature, proposed an amendment that would require the signs only at abortion providers and would direct the state Department of Health to launch a social media campaign on how to avoid abortions.

The State Board of Health on Tuesday approved regulations requiring posting of the signs in public bathrooms at hospitals, nursing homes, restaurants and public schools advising pregnant women where to find services to avoid abortion.

Mourners who braved cold and icy roads packed an Ohio State University auditorium Saturday for a memorial service for space pioneer John Glenn as his casket advanced through the center of his home state’s capital city of Columbus in a somber processional.

Roughly 2,500 people gathered to remember the former fighter pilot, astronaut and longtime Democratic U.S. senator.

The owners of Tony Packo’s, in Toledo, filed a complaint last week against one of the restaurant chain’s former owners who testified more than a year ago that he had a notebook with the eatery’s chili soup and hot dog sauce recipes.