Kitchen pleads to sexual battery COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Authorities say an Ohio State University drum major instructor accused of sexually assaulting a student has pleaded guilty to a sexual battery charge. A Franklin County prosecutor’s spokeswoman says 29-year-old Stewart Kitchen entered the plea Monday in Columbus. Court documents allege the assault occurred at Kitchen’s Columbus home in April 2015 after Kitchen and the 19-year-old … Read More
Longaberger’s ‘Big Basket’ on the market NEWARK, Ohio (AP) — Mind-boggling, beloved, 160 times bigger than life— and soon to be empty. That’s the “Big Basket,” the headquarters of the Longaberger Co. In February, Longaberger parent JRJR Networks announced that it was moving the remaining workers from the Newark building to office space at the company’s manufacturing plant in Frazeysburg in the next few months. Since … Read More
Authorities moving mobile homes where 8 were shot PIKETON, Ohio (AP) — Several mobile homes where eight relatives were found shot to death in southern Ohio are being moved to a secure location as the investigation into who targeted the family and why enters its fourth week, authorities said Thursday. The relocation is intended to preserve the gruesome crime scenes as they were found and to help with … Read More
Judge says ten seized exotic animals should be returned to their owner COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A judge on Thursday said five tigers and five other animals seized from a northeast Ohio farm should be returned, though the state stood by its actions and maintained that the owner hasn’t met Ohio’s tightened restrictions on keeping exotic animals. Owner Cyndi Huntsman of Stump Hill Farm in Massillon argued that her farm is a … Read More
Ohio seizes tigers, chimp and other exotic animals from farm COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The state seized five tigers and five other animals from a northeast Ohio farm Wednesday, saying it hasn’t met the requirements of a law cracking down on exotic animal ownership. The Ohio Department of Agriculture had worked with Stump Hill Farm in Massillon on its efforts to get accreditation from the Zoological Association of America and … Read More
Funeral will honor 6 of 8 victims in Pike County family shootings COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — There will be “ample security” at the funeral for six of the eight people shot and killed in rural southern Ohio in what authorities call a planned attack targeting one family, Ohio’s attorney general said. The service Tuesday at a West Portsmouth church is the last of three funerals for the victims. Seven adults and a … Read More
Man drowns LIMA, Ohio (AP) — Police say a man drowned trying to save a boy who had fallen into a cold northwest Ohio river. Officials say Greg Stevenson jumped into the water — estimated at about 40 degrees at the time — to rescue the boy. City firefighters pulled him out further downstream. Officials say a police officer jumped into the … Read More
Ohio massacre: 1 family, 8 dead, hundreds of tips, 0 answers PIKETON, Ohio (AP) — From her house on Union Hill Road, Brittany Barker heard the first sirens first thing in the morning. She looked out and saw four police vehicles rush past. That was only the beginning. “They just kept coming, kept coming, and kept coming,” she recalled. Authorities in this struggling corner of Appalachia were dealing with what turned … Read More
Trial set for Ohio man who rushed Trump stage DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio college student still faces trial next month after his arrest for rushing the stage at a Donald Trump rally. Read More
Most Ohio victims shot more than once CINCINNATI (AP) — A coroner’s report released Tuesday showed new details of vicious violence in the shooting deaths of eight members of a rural southern Ohio family, finding most victims were shot three to nine times each and some of them were bruised. Read More