A panel has recommended a Civilian Review Board approved by voters in November to oversee Columbus police operations should consist of nine members and should have “broad, independent investigative powers, including the authority to issue subpoenas.
A federal court says Ohio can’t keep refusing to allow people to change the gender listings on their birth certificates.
Governor Mike DeWine said Monday was the day everyone had been waiting for. The first vaccines against the coronavirus have arrived in Ohio.
The coronavirus is keeping three-quarters of Ohioans at home this Christmas.
Columbus police Chief Thomas Quinlan says officers will operate under a new set of rules during anticipated protests this weekend in the wake of the fatal shooting of a Black man by a Franklin County sheriff’s deputy a week ago.
The number of Ohioans filing initial claims for unemployment benefits increased last week by the largest number since the opening days of the COVID-19 pandemic, indicating that the virus that has claimed over 7,000 lives also maintains a stranglehold on the state’s economy.
The stress of living through a nine-month-old pandemic and its economic fallout, compounded by regular daily stress and that associated with the approaching holiday has made Ohio roads angry — and dangerous.
Columbus police investigators say it will be up to the Franklin County Prosecutor and a grand jury to determine whether the fatal shooting of a man by a Franklin County Sheriff’s deputy Friday was justified.
Healthcare workers, emergency medical personnel and nursing home residents will be at the front of the line when over a half million doses of coronavirus vaccine are distributed in Ohio later this month, Gov. Mike DeWine said Friday.
Law enforcement agencies must develop policies for handling mass protests that protect public and officer safety while upholding constitutional rights of expression, assembly, and freedom of the press, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine said Friday in announcing a new police certification standard.
