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CINCINNATI (AP) — Authorities say a man found guilty of shooting and killing a motorist who accidentally struck a 4-year-old boy in Cincinnati has been sentenced to 18 years to life in prison. A Hamilton County judge sentenced 27-year-old Deonte Baber on Wednesday. The Cincinnati man was convicted of murder charges in the March 2017 […]

ALLIANCE, Ohio (AP) — A university in Ohio has ended its affiliation with the United Methodist Church over the denomination’s renewed bans on LGBT clergy and same-sex marriage. The Canton Repository reports the University of Mount Union president says the board of trustees considered the issue for months before voting recently to end the affiliation […]

DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio man who pleaded guilty to shooting and killing his adult son has been sentenced to 15 years to life in prison. Montgomery County’s prosecutor said in a release that 57-year-old Earl Shingleton was sentenced Wednesday in Dayton. He had pleaded guilty this month to one count of murder in […]

DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio man who pleaded guilty to shooting and killing his adult son has been sentenced to 15 years to life in prison. Montgomery County’s prosecutor said in a release that 57-year-old Earl Shingleton was sentenced Wednesday in Dayton. He had pleaded guilty this month to one count of murder in […]

ALLIANCE, Ohio (AP) — A university in Ohio has ended its affiliation with the United Methodist Church over the denomination’s renewed bans on LGBT clergy and same-sex marriage. The Canton Repository reports the University of Mount Union president says the board of trustees considered the issue for months before voting recently to end the affiliation […]

CINCINNATI (AP) — Authorities say a man found guilty of shooting and killing a motorist who accidentally struck a 4-year-old boy in Cincinnati has been sentenced to 18 years to life in prison. A Hamilton County judge sentenced 27-year-old Deonte Baber on Wednesday. The Cincinnati man was convicted of murder charges in the March 2017 […]

CLEVELAND (AP) — A man removed as nursing supervisor at a troubled county jail in Cleveland and then fired by the county hospital system employing him says in a lawsuit those dismissals came after he criticized the jail’s director. Gary Brack says in a lawsuit filed Tuesday that he lost his job for telling Cuyahoga […]

TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — A strike in its third week at an Ohio hospital is putting a spotlight on concerns about forcing nurses to repeatedly work mandatory overtime. The strike also comes at a time when state lawmakers are debating legislation that would allow nurses to refuse mandatory overtime. About 2,200 workers, including nurses, paramedics, […]

CANTON, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio judge has delayed a hearing so a man accused of raping and impregnating an 11-year-old girl can have an interpreter who speaks his native language. The Canton Repository reports Stark County Judge Frank Forchione (for-chee-OWN’-ee) on Tuesday postponed an arraignment because of concerns 26-year-old Juan Leon-Gomez might not understand […]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry has ordered his agency to release more than four years’ worth of data from air monitors near an Ohio school where trace amounts of radioactive material were discovered. Perry says the data from 2015 through the first quarter of this year comes from six air monitoring […]