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Death toll rises to four in crash

BRUNSWICK, Ohio (AP) — The death toll from a weekend car crash has risen to four students after an 18-year-old senior died Monday of injuries he suffered. A fifth student…

Ohio third-grader organizes penny drive for family shelter

TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — Angelica Dowiak had an idea. The 9-year-old’s fundraising plan — sketched on a sheet of paper with a red marker and complete with an illustration of…

Police say woman broke into house to clean it

ELYRIA, Ohio (AP) — Police in suburban Cleveland say a woman who owns a cleaning service broke into a house and washed the dishes, took out the trash, and vacuumed…

Ohioan clearing gun charged in Amish girl’s shooting death

MILLERSBURG, Ohio (AP) — An Amish man who fired a shot into the air as he cleared his rifle was charged Tuesday with reckless homicide in the shooting death of…

Ohio justice says she’ll leave court

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio Supreme Court Justice Evelyn Lundberg Stratton announced Tuesday that she plans to leave the court at year’s end, with two years left on her term.…

Exotic animal regulations head to Kasich

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Legislation that would tighten regulations on owning exotic animals in Ohio was headed Tuesday to the governor for his expected signature, months after authorities were forced…

Ohio school official charged in $470,000 scheme

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A former treasurer for more than a dozen Ohio charter schools was charged Thursday with embezzling more than $470,000 in federal education funds over six years.…

10-year-old girl shot at Ohio restaurant dies

CLEVELAND (AP) — A 10-year-old girl who was critically injured in April in a restaurant shooting by her father that killed her sister and her mother has died, family members…

Ohio’s first casino opens to music video show

CLEVELAND (AP) — Ohio’s first casino opened Monday night with long lines of gamblers ready to roll the dice, a glitzy music video instead of a traditional ribbon cutting and…

Phantom money flowing at Ohio’s soon-to-be casino

CLEVELAND (AP) — The phantom money was flowing Wednesday at Ohio’s first casino, with cashiers practicing for next week’s opening and no one going home a loser. Developers of Horseshoe…