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TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — A plan that would add a new charge on electricity bills in Ohio to give a financial lifeline to Ohio’s two nuclear plants would come at the expense of wind and solar projects. Republican members of an Ohio House committee approved the proposal Thursday over the objections of Democrats. Next up […]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The State Medical Board has taken a step toward possibly making more information public from its old investigation involving an Ohio State University team doctor recently found to have sexually abused male students for two decades. Details about the board investigation involving the late Dr. Richard Strauss have remained confidential under […]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A former Ohio State diving club coach has pleaded guilty to charges related to allegations that he had sex with a diver when she was a teenager. Former diver Estee Pryor has publicly said that defendant William Bohonyi began pressuring her for sex when she was 16. Franklin County Prosecutor Ron […]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A prosecutor in Ohio says a man has pleaded guilty to a murder charge for fatally shooting his father, a former doctor who was awaiting sentencing for running a pill mill. Franklin County Prosecutor Ron O’Brien said in a release that 21-year-old Jonah Lake pleaded guilty Wednesday in the slaying of […]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Police say a 14-year-old boy has been killed in a shooting near an Ohio elementary school that also left a 14-year-old girl wounded. Columbus police say the shooting was reported shortly before 7 p.m. Wednesday. Emergency responders found the boy and girl with gunshot wounds on a sidewalk near Shady Lane […]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Police say 14-year-old boy has been killed in a shooting near an Ohio elementary school that also left a 14-year-old girl wounded. Columbus police say the shooting was reported shortly before 7 p.m. Wednesday. Emergency responders found the boy and girl with gunshot wounds on a sidewalk near Shady Lane Elementary […]

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 […]