By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — There's limited evidence that expanding the electronic monitoring of inmates in Ohio would reduce the rates at which ex-offenders commit new crimes or that it would enhance public safety, according to a new report. In ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A permanent memorial to the women's suffrage movement would be erected on the grounds of the Ohio Statehouse, under a proposal to be made to the Statehouse governing body next week. Fund-raising for the memorial would likely top $1 million, members of the Women's ...

CINCINNATI (AP) — A man accused of punching a protester outside a rally for President Donald Trump has been found guilty. A jury convicted Dallas Frazier, 30, Thursday of misdemeanor assault for hitting Michael Alter, 61, outside the U.S. Bank Arena in Cincinnati in August. Thousands ...

PORT CLINTON, Ohio (AP) — Volunteers plan to search this weekend for a 14-year-old Ohio boy who went missing three weeks ago. Police in Port Clinton have released little new information over the past two weeks about the disappearance of Harley Dilly. He was last seen leaving home on the ...

By KANTELE FRANKO Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A federal judge declined for now to compel a Michigan-based health system to advance legal costs for a doctor's defense against murder charges in the deaths of 25 Ohio hospital patients. U.S. District Judge George Caram Steeh in ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A federal magistrate judge on Wednesday ordered a man be sent to Ohio to face a criminal charge that he threatened to shoot up Ohio State University and hurt players on the football team. A September indictment unsealed last month in federal court in Columbus accuses ...

CINCINNATI (AP) — The head of an Ohio company who allegedly schemed to win contracts that were intended for minority-owned businesses was sentenced to prison. U.S. District Judge Michael Barrett ordered Doug Evans to serve 21 months in prison and pay a fine of $25,000 in Cincinnati federal ...

By DAN SEWELL Associated Press CINCINNATI (AP) — A federal background report is due March 25 for an Ohio man who pleaded guilty to aggravated identity theft for claiming to be a child who disappeared at age 6. A federal judge Wednesday told 24-year-old Brian Michael Rini of Medina his ...

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (AP) — A 17-year-old boy who admitted in court to making hoax phone calls to authorities in a half-dozen states should receive a one-year sentence with credit for time served, an Ohio prosecutor said. David Dorbish Jr. pleaded guilty Wednesday in a court in Youngstown to ...

By KATIE BYARD Akron Beacon Journal AKRON, Ohio (AP) — An unusual new collection is in the bag at the University of Akron. Roughly 12,000 bags — made of paper, plastic, metal and even glass — and bag-related pieces make up the Lee L. Forman Collection of Bags. The big batch of bags ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The number of fatal overdoses in the county that includes Ohio's capital city jumped during the first nine months of 2019 compared to the same period in 2018, the county coroner reported Monday. Franklin County recorded 421 drug deaths through September 2019, a 15% ...

PORTSMOUTH, Ohio (AP) — The trial for an Ohio couple charged in the death of their months-old son, whose body was found in a well, has been scheduled to start Monday. Jessica and Daniel Groves have pleaded not guilty to aggravated murder and other charges in the death of their son, Dylan, ...

CLEVELAND (AP) — A man who had been shot and was en route to a hospital when the ambulance transporting him crashed has died, Cleveland police said Sunday. The 29-year-old man was shot late Friday night in a convenience store parking lot, police said. The ambulance transporting him to a ...

AKRON, Ohio (AP) — A county in Ohio is set to begin foreclosure proceedings against a mall over unpaid property taxes, according to officials. The Chapel Hill Mall in Akron owes more than $166,000 in back taxes, and a bill going out this month for just over $400,000 will include the back ...

ASHEVILLE, NC (AP) — An Allegiant Air flight bound from Ohio to Florida with 151 passengers and six crew made an emergency landing in North Carolina on Thursday afternoon, and there were no injuries, an airline spokeswoman said. Allegiant spokeswoman Sonya Padgett told media outlet WLOS ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A 2-year-old girl and two adults were found dead after an explosion ignited a fire at an Ohio home, police said Thursday. The cause of Wednesday evening's blast in a neighborhood several miles southeast of downtown Columbus remains unclear, so homicide detectives are ...

By JOE KAY AP Sports Writer Sam Wyche, who pushed the boundaries as an offensive innovator with the Cincinnati Bengals and challenged the NFL's protocols along the way, has died. He was 74. Wyche, who had a history of blood clots in his lungs and had a heart transplant in 2016 in Charlotte, ...

MIDDLETOWN, Ohio (AP) — Dozens of firefighters battled a blaze at a long-abandoned Ohio factory on Wednesday, with smoke visible for miles. No injuries were reported as the fire burned at the former paper plant in Middletown in southwestern Ohio. Fire was first reported early Wednesday ...

By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Authorities are looking for a man accused of saying he was going to shoot up Ohio State University and hurt players on the football team in a threat made during the university's 2018 game with the University of Michigan, ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Police across Ohio had their hands full New Year's Eve and early Wednesday with multiple reports of shootings, including a woman who police say was fatally shot after her boyfriend started firing his gun right after midnight. In Cleveland, police reported 10 separate ...