The principal and vice principal of a Cincinnati elementary school argued before a Sixth Circuit panel Wednesday that they are entitled to immunity from claims brought by the parents of a third-grader who killed himself after being bullied repeatedly.
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A driver injured in a collision with a tractor trailer whose operator suffered a fatal heart attack argued before a Sixth Circuit panel Tuesday to revive his case, after a federal judge found Ohio’s medical emergency doctrine barred his negligence claims.
Read moreA student’s Title IX claims against the Ohio University can proceed, a federal court in the state ruled, because the school had been warned by at least three other students that one of its professors gave favors to students he was sexually attracted to and continually sought relationships with them.
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Ohio State University is committed to a “monetary resolution” for men sexually abused decades ago by team doctor Richard Strauss, school leaders said Thursday, though no settlement has been reached in lawsuits saying school officials ignored complaints and failed to stop him.
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At the entrance to Sidney High School in small-town Ohio, there is a poster that states: “Inside this building, our children are protected by an armed and trained response team.”
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Candidate Donald Trump promised that coal and steel would be the beating heart of a revived economy in the industrial Midwest. But that promised renaissance has not materialized and both sectors are faltering in ways that are painfully familiar and politically significant.
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Despite receiving a slew of regulatory breaks from the Trump administration, U.S. coal mining giant Murray Energy filed for Chapter 11 protection Tuesday in a U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Columbus, Ohio.
Read moreA former softball player at Kent State University urged the Sixth Circuit on Wednesday to revive her case against the school and officials she accuses of covering up her alleged rape at the hands of a baseball player who was also the son of the softball coach.
Read moreStriking an 11th-hour deal to avoid a highly anticipated bellwether trial over the nationwide opioid epidemic, three drug distributors and one manufacturer reached a $260 million settlement Monday with two Ohio counties.
Read moreJury selection moved forward Wednesday in a bellwether trial over the nationwide opioid epidemic after the federal judge overseeing the sprawling case rejected an effort by drug manufacturers and distributors to postpone the trial.
Read moreJury selection will begin Wednesday in a major bellwether trial testing the first of thousands of claims filed by local governments against pharmaceutical companies over the nation’s opioid epidemic.
Read moreTwelve Democratic hopefuls are set to slug it out Tuesday night in Westerville, Ohio, making history as the largest field of candidates to share a single presidential debate stage.
Read moreA Sixth Circuit panel on Friday upheld an injunction that says a women’s right to an abortion cannot be blocked in Ohio based on indications that a fetus has Down syndrome.
Read moreOhio privacy law prohibits The Associated Press and other news organizations from accessing school records of the Dayton gunman who killed nine people in August to substantiate former classmates’ claims he was suspended in high school for compiling a “hit list” of people he wanted to kill.
Read moreThe Sixth Circuit on Thursday denied Ohio’s request to stop an opioid trial that will test the first of thousands of claims in the state against pharmaceutical companies.
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Ohio voters are torn between former Vice President Joe Biden, Senator Bernie Sanders and Senator Elizabeth Warren in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, according to a poll released Thursday, while nearly half of them support impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump.
Read moreCelebrity lawyer Michael Avenatti told a federal judge Thursday he should be first in line for money from Stormy Daniels’ settlement over the adult firm star’s arrest at an Ohio strip club last year because he is owed $2 million in unpaid legal fees and costs.
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Johnson & Johnson on Tuesday said it had reached an agreement worth more than $20 million with two Ohio counties, becoming the latest company to settle a lawsuit to get out of the first federal trial over the nation’s opioids crisis.
Read moreThe federal judge overseeing thousands of cases at the center of an upcoming nationwide opioid trial in Ohio has rejected a motion by drug distributors, pharmacies and retailers to recuse himself.
Read moreA federal judge on Thursday rejected Ohio’s push to remain one of two states that bar transgender people from making changes to their birth certificates, a policy they say exposes them to discrimination and threats.
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