LOS ANGELES — "The Sopranos” turned its startling cut-to-black final season into Emmy gold Sunday, winning the best drama series award, and newcomer “30 Rock” was named best comedy series. The mob saga’s victory was nearly unprecedented, with only one other drama series, 1977′s “Upstairs, Downstairs,” having claimed the top trophy after leaving the air. [...]

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton is unveiling a sweeping health care reform proposal today that would require every American to carry health insurance and offer federal subsidies to help reduce the cost of coverage. With a price tag of about $110 billion per year, Clinton’s “American Health Choices Plan” [...]

COLUMBUS — The state hasn’t done enough to promote healthy lifestyles and has to spend too much time and money managing diseases that might be preventable, the state health director said. The state also has an economic interest in reducing health problems in Ohio, where the number of obese people continues to grow and heart [...]

ELYRIA — A teenager who drove his car into a Lake Avenue building late Friday was arrested and his 15-year-old passenger was taken to a local hospital, police and witnesses said. Elyria police and firefighters and LifeCare paramedics were called to Lake Avenue and Neufer Court just before 10:30 p.m. after the 17-year-old boy drove [...]

ELYRIA — A Sullivan man who led Elyria and North Ridgeville police on a short chase early Thursday is accused of drunken driving, an Elyria police report stated. Samuel Swiger, 42, was charged with DUI, driving under suspension, reckless operation and failure to comply — all first-degree misdemeanors, the report said. Elyria police cruisers crossed [...]

Man robbed after scuffle outside bar LORAIN — A Lorain man found intoxicated in a parking lot on East 29th Street told police he was robbed at gunpoint by a woman he drove home from a bar, a Lorain police report said. Police were called to an area not far from El Patio Bar about [...]