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County GOP doesn’t endorse in race to fill Boehner seat

FAIRFIELD (AP) - Butler County's auditor fell just short of winning the Republican Party's endorsement in his home county for the race in the U.S. House district vacated by former House Speaker John Boehner.Roger Reynolds captured 59 percent of the vote at the Tuesday night meeting, shy of the 60 percent needed for endorsement in the largest county in western Ohio's heavily Republican 8th District. Reynolds said he was "humbled and honored" with the strong show of support for what he called "proven conservative leadership."State Rep. Tim Derickson got nearly 40 percent of the vote in ...

State prison opens community service workspace for inmates

ORIENT (AP) - An Ohio prison is opening a dedicated workspace for inmates working on community service projects from assembling bikes for foster kids to weaving mats for the homeless.The state says the Community Service Center at Pickaway Correctional Institution will boost the prison's ability to provide meaningful activities for inmates while strengthening relationships with community service groups.The Department of Rehabilitation and Correction planned a ribbon-cutting ceremony Wednesday morning at the prison south of Columbus.Inmates at the men's prison are assembling 1,180 new ...

Ohio man accused of recording fatal accident pleads guilty

LORAIN (AP) - A northeast Ohio man accused of recording a cellphone video of a grisly car crash that killed one teenage boy and critically injured another has pleaded guilty to vehicle trespass and disorderly conduct.Forty-one-year-old Paul Pelton's plea deal on Tuesday in Lorain includes the dismissal of felony bribery and witness intimidation charges. Pelton was accused of trying to persuade the teenage driver of the vehicle to tell police he had permission to open the car door after the single-car accident in July.The charges stem from Pelton having opened a car door of the wrecked ...

Council passes ban on LGBT conversion therapy

CINCINNATI (AP) - An Ohio city's council has passed a ban on therapy aimed at changing the sexual orientation of minors.Cincinnati council members voted 7-2 Wednesday to outlaw the practice known as "conversion therapy." The Cincinnati Enquirer reports that nearly two dozen pastors and other people packed in to council chambers to unsuccessfully oppose the move.But council voted to prohibit therapy by health professionals designed to change sexual orientation or gender identity, imposing a $200-a-day fine on violators.

Boy, 11, gets probation for making school threat

NEWARK (AP) - An 11-year-old central Ohio boy has been put on probation for typing a threatening, racist message on his elementary school's computer that appeared on all students' screens.The sixth-grader from Newton Elementary School near Newark, about 30 miles east of Columbus, entered the juvenile court equivalent of a guilty plea this week to a delinquency count of inducing panic.The Columbus Dispatch reports the threat was discovered on Sept. 21 in the form of a computer icon that appeared on all students' desktop screens. According to a detective's statement, the icon read: "the ...

Students prep for Iowa

LORDSTOWN - More than three dozen students from Maplewood, Lordstown and Newberry schools will be traveling to Iowa in February to work with their favorite candidate as they barnstorm the state in order to win the first caucuses that will put them on the path to being the presidential nominee for the Republican and Democratic parties."The goal is to give these students a chance to meet and work with candidates as they work to win their campaigns," Lordstown Superintendent Terry Armstrong said.He took about 24 students to the caucuses in 2008, where they met then-Senators Barack Obama and ...