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CINCINNATI (AP) — Republican Attorney General Dave Yost has joined Planned Parenthood in asking a federal judge to postpone information-gathering in a legal challenge to Ohio’s law banning a common second-trimester abortion procedure. In a joint filing Monday, the parties asked U.S. District Judge Michael Barrett in Cincinnati to halt discovery in the Ohio case […]

AKRON, Ohio (AP) — Police say a motorcyclist in Ohio who fatally struck a 15-year-old boy on a bicycle was driving with a suspended license. Akron police also have said that speed was a factor in Friday’s crash that killed 15-year-old Damiyon Frazier. Police said witnesses told them three motorcycles were traveling westbound on a […]

NEWARK, Ohio (AP) — An 18-year-old has been jailed on $1 million bond in the shooting death of a 12-year-old girl. The Newark Advocate reports Keegan Mummey, of Newark, was charged with aggravated murder Monday in Licking County Common Pleas Court, a felony that carries a penalty of up to life in prison. He is […]

NEWARK, Ohio (AP) — An 18-year-old has been jailed on $1 million bond in the shooting death of a 12-year-old girl. The Newark Advocate reports Keegan Mummey, of Newark, was charged with aggravated murder Monday in Licking County Common Pleas Court, a felony that carries a penalty of up to life in prison. He is […]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio’s Department of Transportation says its employees have spent more than 20,000 hours helping with cleanup from tornadoes and other severe weather that swept through parts of the state last month. The department said in a news release Monday that its cost for helping clean up damage caused by tornadoes, severe […]

AKRON, Ohio (AP) — Police say a motorcyclist in Ohio who fatally struck a 15-year-old boy on a bicycle was driving with a suspended license. Akron police also have said that speed was a factor in Friday’s crash that killed 15-year-old Damiyon Frazier. Police said witnesses told them three motorcycles were traveling westbound on a […]

CINCINNATI (AP) — Republican Attorney General Dave Yost has joined Planned Parenthood in asking a federal judge to postpone information-gathering in a legal challenge to Ohio’s law banning a common second-trimester abortion procedure. In a joint filing Monday, the parties asked U.S. District Judge Michael Barrett in Cincinnati to halt discovery in the Ohio case […]

DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — Officials with an annual air show in Ohio say an estimated 49,000 people attended the weekend event, down from closer to 62,000 last year. A Vectren Dayton Air Show statement on Monday attributed the decreased attendance at the show held Saturday and Sunday to having to shift parking farther away. The […]

CLEVELAND (AP) — An 18-year-old has pleaded not guilty to fatally stabbing his grandmother and injuring three children in an attack at a Cleveland home. A judge on Monday ordered that Jalen Plummer be held on a $2 million bond. Plummer pleaded not guilty to charges including aggravated murder. Court records don’t indicate whether he […]

COSHOCTON, Ohio (AP) — Officials have identified the three youths who died in one of two Ohio fires that killed a total of six people. The Coshocton County coroner says 15-year-old Gabriella Hunley, 12-year-old Joshua Hunley and 15-year-old Cody Smith died June 18 in a barn fire in the county. The condition of a fourth […]