Political Pulse is a weekly column with the goal of giving objective, to-the-point information to readers on current political events. Ohio’s 2018 Races A flurry of action has occurred in the Senate race during the last week as the Feb.7 deadline to file for  2018 ...

Sixteen patents (and 12 pending), multiple spots on a prestigious inventor’s spotlight lists, and now a place on the globally recognized National Academy of Inventors won’t change modest inventor and Ohio State chemistry and biochemistry professor, Prabir Dutta, who, after being honored by the NAI, ...

Tau Kappa Epsilon is appealing the three-year suspension handed down by Ohio State, a spokesman for the fraternity told The Lantern Tuesday. The suspension comes after an investigation found the fraternity was guilty of violating the hazing, alcohol and endangering behavior sections of the Code ...

The past six months Ahmed Menevseoglu, a doctoral candidate in food science at Ohio State, has been getting up a bit earlier than he would prefer. His 1-year-old son normally wakes up he and his wife by about 8:30 a.m. While all new parents are ...

Alina Sharafutdinova lost her uncle to a drug overdose when she was 5 years old. She couldn’t possibly have known how that tragedy would shape her future path — one that could soon support those touched by similar tragedies. Now, Sharafutdinova, who has lived in ...

For fourth-year Anna Voelker, winning the President’s Prize is much more than receiving a cash award; it’s an opportunity to make a change she wishes to see in the world by increasing access to careers in astronomy and physics for people with disabilities and specialized ...

A robbery was reported to the Columbus Division of Police as having occurred on Jan. 1 at 1:20 a.m. on East 16th Avenue near North Fourth Street. According to the online police log, a man told police that a suspect approached him and demanded he ...

Tau Kappa Epsilon has been suspended from Ohio State’s campus for three years following an investigation into the chapter’s violations of the Code of Student Conduct. The investigation found the fraternity chapter guilty of hazing, endangering behavior and improper use of alcohol. As a result ...

The man who shot and killed Ohio State student Heather Campbell and then himself in September was intoxicated at the time of the murder-suicide. Kyle Lafferty, Campbell’s boyfriend whom she shared an apartment with, had a blood alcohol level of 0.21, said Daniel Baker, chief ...

Ohio State placed one of its doctors at the Wexner Medical Center on paid administrative leave following a USA Today investigation into rape allegations made against the doctor while he was practicing at the Cleveland Clinic. Ryan Williams, a colon and rectal surgeon, was accused ...