As pool and water park employees across central Ohio readied for crowds this holiday weekend, they knew they had taken precautions to make the pools as safe as possible for the tens of thousands of area residents who will splash in them this summer.
A combination of wage growth and cheap gas adds up to the second-highest Memorial Day travel volume on record, with nearly 40 million Americans traveling by road, rail or air.
The population of Columbus moved ahead of Indianapolis last and the city is now the nation’s 14th largest.
Authorities are investigating reports of damage from severe overnight storms in southwest Ohio, possibly including tornadoes.
Ohioans drafting Cody Kessler to lead their fantasy teams may have their judgment questioned, but they won’t fear violating state law under a bill that passed the House on Wednesday.
A federal judge has ruled that Ohio’s county recorders cannot remove racist language from old deed restrictions and covenants.
The judge who granted early release from jail to the gunman who killed his ex-girlfriend, her co-worker and the Kirkersville police chief last week has identified problems with the release and supervision of Thomas Hartless and outlined steps being taken to address how offenders on probation for domestic violence are supervised in the future.
Authorities have found more than 60 guns at the Utica home of a man who fatally shot three people, including his former girlfriend and a new police chief, at a Kirkersville nursing home earlier this month.
New Albany police are investigating an incident of vandalism at New Albany High School in which racist and anti-Semitic graffiti was spray-painted on the school’s tennis courts and an equipment shed.
The Franklin County sheriff has fired a deputy who worked as a school resource officer after what was described as an inappropriate incident involving a girl at South-Western’s Westland High School.
