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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A former Ohio television weatherman accused of downloading child porn emailed himself nearly 16,000 such images to view on other devices, investigators said in recently unsealed search warrants. Mike Davis used one email account to regularly send himself “batches” of files depicting sexually explicit images of young girls over a period […]

TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — Two birding groups filed a federal lawsuit trying to block a planned wind farm in Lake Erie, saying the project poses a danger to birds that fly through the area. The groups said the proposed six-turbine wind farm for just off the shore of Cleveland “would pose substantial collision risks to […]

TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — Two birding groups filed a federal lawsuit trying to block a planned wind farm in Lake Erie, saying the project poses a danger to birds that fly through the area. The groups said the proposed six-turbine wind farm for just off the shore of Cleveland “would pose substantial collision risks to […]

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (AP) — A man who authorities say held a gun while recording a threatening video about an Ohio Jewish center is asking for certain evidence that portrays him in a negative light to be thrown out. James Reardon, of New Middletown, was indicted on Sept. 27 on one count of transmitting an interstate […]

NELSONVILLE, Ohio (AP) — The mother of an Ohio college student who was found unresponsive in his dorm and later died said a severe milk allergy was to blame. Hocking College police found Logan Lewis, 20, of Heath, unresponsive in a dormitory on Thursday before he was pronounced dead soon thereafter at a nearby hospital […]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio has decided not to move forward with a proposed constitutional amendment that would create a fund to ensure future settlement money from government lawsuits over the opioid epidemic is used to address that problem. House Speaker Larry Householder and Minority Leader Emilia Sykes said on Tuesday that the House will […]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio lawmaker who proposed legislation extending insurance coverage to a procedure considered medically impossible as a way of fighting abortion worked closely on the bill with a conservative lobbyist, newly released emails show. State Rep. John Becker, a southwestern Ohio Republican, got help from Barry Sheets, a lobbyist for the […]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio judge has ordered the Roman Catholic Dioceses of Columbus to release files on 14 accused priests as part of an ongoing lawsuit. Franklin County Judge Jaiza Page made the decision on Friday, The Columbus Dispatch reported. Lebanon attorney Konrad Kircher requested the files in February. Kircher is representing Kevin […]

CHARDON, Ohio (AP) — The trial of a woman who authorities say put her newborn baby boy in a garbage bag and left him in a wooded area in 1993 won’t be immediately moved over concerns of extensive pre-trial publicity, a judge ruled. Gail Eastwood-Ritchey, 49, has pleaded not guilty in Geauga County Court to […]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The six police officers who responded to an Ohio mass shooting over the summer will be honored for their actions, according to the prosecutor who oversees Dayton where the attack happened. Officers rushing to the scene of the Aug. 4 shooting in Dayton’s Oregon District neighborhood reached the suspect in half […]