Samantha Hendrickson

Democrats also have their own primary challenges in the more urban and solidly-left districts this month, although those battles aren't as closely watched as the diverse GOP matchups.

The OneOhio Recovery Foundation, who has been tasked with distributing over $860 million of settlements reached with drugmakers and pharmaceutical companies for their roles in the national opioid crisis, plans to release its formal request for proposals Monday.

The opioid crisis alone cost the U.S. economy $631 billion from 2015 through 2018, according to a study from the Society of Actuaries. That amount has almost certainly increased as there has been little relief in the opioid crisis during the last five years.

A man in Ohio tested positive for an orthopox virus, and state and federal health officials are working to confirm whether it is in fact monkeypox.