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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The state human services agency reported more than 272,000 jobless claims for last week, and the attorney general sped up the placement of 300 new police recruits onto Ohio streets. A look at coronavirus-related developments in Ohio on Thursday: ___ ECONOMY The state reported 272,117 jobless claims for the week ending […]

PIKE TOWNSHIP, Ohio (AP) — The deaths of two people whose remains were recently found in two adjacent eastern Ohio counties are not related, authorities said, but their identities remain a mystery.. The first discovery came March 21, when a landowner riding an ATV as he inspected property stakes near an oil well in eastern […]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The state human services agency reported more than 272,000 jobless claims for last week, and the attorney general sped up the placement of 300 new police recruits onto Ohio streets. A look at coronavirus-related developments in Ohio on Thursday: ___ ECONOMY The state reported 272,117 jobless claims for the week ending […]

LIMA, Ohio (AP) — A man sought in a shooting at northwest Ohio bar that left three people dead has been captured. Deontray Forrest, 24, of Lima, was arrested without incident Wednesday at an apartment in Cleveland by officers with the Northern Ohio Violent Fugitive Task Force. He was being held in the Cuyahoga County […]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio woman whose brother, mother and father died of coronavirus pleaded for people to stay at home and follow social distancing guidelines, while President Donald Trump has issued a disaster declaration for Ohio and ordered federal help for state and local recovery efforts. A look at coronavirus-related developments in Ohio […]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio woman whose brother, mother and father died of coronavirus pleaded for people to stay at home and follow social distancing guidelines, while President Donald Trump has issued a disaster declaration for Ohio and ordered federal help for state and local recovery efforts. A look at coronavirus-related developments in Ohio […]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A confrontation between police and an armed suspect in Ohio’s capital city ended early Wednesday with the suspect and an officer both shot and wounded, though both were expected to survive. The shooting in Columbus occurred shortly after 3 a.m. on South Ohio Avenue, when officers responded to reports of shots […]

SPRINGFIELD, Ohio (AP) — A fast-moving fire roared through a western Ohio home early Wednesday, killing a woman and a dog and injuring four other people. The fire in Springfield was reported around 7 a.m., when a Clark County sheriff’s deputy who was on his way to work saw the flames and notified authorities. The […]

CLEVELAND (AP) — A man who spent nearly 15 years in prison for a murder he did not commit said Cleveland police detectives and their supervisors withheld evidence from prosecutors that would have proven his innocence at trial, his attorneys wrote in a federal lawsuit. Ru-El Sailor, 40, was convicted in 2003 of aggravated murder […]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio woman whose brother, mother and father died of coronavirus pleaded for people to stay at home and follow social distancing guidelines, while President Donald Trump has issued a disaster declaration for Ohio and ordered federal help for state and local recovery efforts. A look at coronavirus-related developments in Ohio […]