By ALAN MILLER/The Reporting Project Deep inside a report on the future of water in central Ohio is this warning: Industrial demands for water will skyrocket at the same time experts expect farmers will need to regularly irrigate their fields during the critical growing period of July ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ta'Kiya Young had big dreams for her growing family, and for herself. Seven months pregnant, the 21-year-old Ohio woman loved to spoil her two sons and was thrilled to be expecting a daughter. She bought onesies, scheduled a photo shoot and showed off her belly. And she ...

By PATRICK AFTOORA-ORSAGOS and JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The Ohio police officer who shot and killed Ta'Kiya Young, a pregnant Black mother who had been accused of shoplifting, was acquitted on all counts Friday, including murder. Blendon Township police ...

By JULIE CARR SMYTH The Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Former Democratic U.S. Rep. Tim Ryan said Friday that he has decided not to run for Ohio governor next year, eliminating the most significant hurdle to the nomination for former state health director Dr. Amy Acton. Ryan, 52, ...

By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio utility regulators ordered Akron-based FirstEnergy on Wednesday to pay more than $250 million in fines and refunds as a result of its misconduct in a sweeping Statehouse bribery scandal whose fallout continues five years ...

By JOSH FUNK AP Transportation Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Shareholders of Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern backed the railroads' proposed $85 billion merger to create the nation's first coast-to-coast rail network. Roughly 99% of both railroads' shareholders voted to support the ...