A parody Facebook account of an Ohio police department landed a local man in jail, but he was acquitted of a felony charge and his First Amendment lawsuit against the city and its police officers was heard Thursday in the Sixth Circuit.
Read moreA federal judge refused to dismiss a complaint from Community Refugee and Immigration Services that accuses Ohio of illegally refusing to issue driver’s licenses to refugees whose I-94 documents, which do not expire, are more than 2 years old.
Read moreAn Ohio doctor was charged with murder Wednesday in the deaths of 25 hospital patients who authorities say were killed with deliberate overdoses of painkillers, many of them administered by other medical workers on his orders.
Read moreParty lines went out the window Monday as the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 against an Ohio drug dealer who said pretrial detention should count as time he was supposed to spend on supervised release for older charges.
Read moreA rapid-fire line of tornadoes tore across Indiana and Ohio overnight, packed so closely together that one crossed the path carved by another. The storms strew debris so thick that highway crews had to use snowplows to clear an interstate.
Read moreMichigan and Ohio lawmakers secured a temporary reprieve Friday from orders to redraw election districts that federal judges threw out as unconstitutional gerrymanders.
Read moreAdministrators at Ohio State University should release the names of all coaches, trainers and personnel who knew of but failed to act on complaints about a now-dead team doctor who sexually abused male students for nearly two decades, said attorneys for some of the victims.
Read moreAbortion providers represented by the American Civil Liberties Union filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday over Ohio’s new law banning abortions once a fetal heartbeat is detected, which mirrors legislation passed recently in several other states.
Read moreThe Republican-controlled Ohio Legislature, joined by several state congressional representatives, failed Thursday in its attempt to stay an injunction that requires it to draw a new electoral map before the 2020 election.
Read moreA three-judge panel ruled Friday that the Ohio congressional map drawn by Republican lawmakers after the 2010 census is an unconstitutional gerrymander that renders “one consistent result no matter the particularities of the election cycle.”
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(CN) – Commercial label maker Multi-Color Corp. faces a shareholder derivative class action for allegedly misrepresenting and omitting key information
Read moreThe Ohio Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday morning in a defamation lawsuit claiming a Columbus TV station wrongly named three siblings as robbers in an article about police asking the public for help identifying suspects in the crime.
Read moreA federal magistrate judge granted summary judgment to courtroom observers arrested for disorderly conduct, since taking pictures of trial participants as they left the courtroom did not constitute probable cause for arrest.
Read moreFederal authorities said Wednesday they have charged 60 people, including a doctor accused of trading drugs for sex and another of prescribing to his Facebook friends, for their roles in illegally prescribing and distributing millions of pills containing opioids and other drugs.
Read moreIn the face of a promised legal challenge, Ohio Governor Mike DeWine signed into law Thursday a bill banning abortions once a fetal heartbeat is detected.
Read moreNo topic seemed off limits, including tales of back alleys and coat hangers, as abortion-rights supporters in Ohio fought perhaps the last battle over a twice-vetoed heartbeat abortion ban, which Gov. Mike DeWine has said he will sign.
Read moreA 23-year-old ex-convict accused of pulling a cruel hoax by pretending to be a long-missing Illinois boy was charged Friday with making false statements to federal authorities.
Read moreOhio congressman Tim Ryan says he’s running for president. The 45-year-old announced his 2020 Democratic primary bid Thursday on ABC’s “The View.”
Read moreA 14-year-old boy who said he escaped from two kidnappers in Ohio and fled across a bridge to Kentucky told authorities he is an Illinois boy who went missing nearly eight years ago.
Read moreThe city of Columbus claims in a lawsuit filed Tuesday against Ohio that changes to statewide gun laws interfere with city regulations to curb gun violence and violate other state laws giving cities the authority to govern their affairs.
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