The number of Ohioans filing first-time claims for unemployment during the last week of February was 19% higher than the week before but the state says 21,000 of the more than 120,000 initial claims have been flagged for potential fraud.
His family’s attorney says a Bowling Green State University student from the Delaware area has died after an alleged hazing incident involving alcohol.
Crews resumed searching the Ohio River Sunday for the body a 6-year-old Ohio boy who police say died when his mother tried to abandon him at a park and drive away but he grabbed for a door and was dragged.
Authorities say a shooting suspect fleeing police got into a wrong-way crash on I-270 on the Southeast Side and was then killed in an exchange of gunfire with law enforcement personnel.
Ohio schools still would have to administer nearly all the usual tests this spring but would have an extra week to conduct most of those in person under legislation passed Thursday by the Ohio House.
Science, dogged detective work and a tip prompted by a media report helped solve the murders of two central Ohio teenagers that happened nearly a half-century ago.
Police are looking for a 32-year-old Northeast Side man in connection with a fatal shooting on the Hilltop Wednesday night.
Thousands more Ohioans will become eligible to begin receiving COVID-19 vaccinations Thursday as Gov. Mike DeWine has announced that those age 60 and over can begin signing up, along with workers in certain occupations and with some medical conditions.
Ohio and the rest of the nation saw robust gun sales in 2020 and county sheriffs reported an increase in the number of concealed-carry permits issued, though it was not the largest number ever, according to a report released Monday by the office of Ohio attorney general Dave Yost.
Authorities say gunfire claimed the life of a man and wounded a woman in a parking lot outside a movie theater in Gahanna Friday night.
