The Ohio Supreme Court has ruled that a state law making it a felony for a peace officer to have sex with a minor more than two years younger than the officer is unconstitutional.
As law enforcement agencies nationwide continue to try to stem a tide of powerful street drugs, which now include a potentially deadly elephant sedative Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine is warning Ohio authorities to reconsider testing street drugs on the scene because the potency of popular drugs could harm officers who inhale or touch them.
Police say the parents of an 18-month-old girl who overdosed on a painkiller twice in one week have been arrested on charges of child endangering.
A heated argument over presidential politics turned violent at a bar in Cleveland, leaving one man with a gunshot wound to the leg.
Ohio’s Democrats insist they are unified even as leaked emails open new rifts in their national party as the Philadelphia convention gets underway.
Gas prices fell again last week after a short-lived spike.
The NFL says it is reviewing domestic violence allegations against Dallas Cowboys rookie Ezekiel Elliott.
Ohio’s unemployment rate dropped for the second straight month, but remains higher than last year due to increased participation in the labor force.
The Columbus Board of Education went with people, programs and repairs over new buildings Thursday, sending the smallest of four recommended levy requests to voters in November while jettisoning the most recent update of its carefully crafted building plan.
Police have arrested an East Side man and are looking for a second suspect in a shooting on a freeway that left one man dead and another injured and shut down the interstate for several hours earlier this month.
