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Joins Kenton Kiwanis

Joins Kenton Kiwanis

Andrew Tudor (right) was inducted as the newest member of the Kenton Kiwanis at its Dec. 6 meeting. He stands with President Lisa Frantz. Kiwanis is a global organization dedicated…

Insurance fraud up in Ohio

DAYTON (AP) — A newspaper reports that Ohio has already received a record number of insurance-fraud allegations this year. The Dayton Daily News reports that officials are attributing it partly…

Ohio moves toward shutting down internet cafés

TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — Ohio is moving toward shutting down hundreds of storefront gambling operations that have sprouted up in strip malls and vacant stores, offering computer games that operate…

Shooter sought

SALEM, Ohio (AP) — Deputies in northeast Ohio are still searching for the person who killed a woman and shot her 5-year-old grandson in the head earlier this week. The…

Man shot in head walks into hospital

EAST LIVERPOOL, Ohio (AP) — Police say a man who was shot in the head walked into an eastern Ohio hospital emergency room on his own. WTOV-TV reports that 29-year-old…

Man arrested at border in Ohio Grand Prix fraud

CINCINNATI (AP) — An Ohio man accused of lying to investors and city leaders about bringing a Grand Prix race to downtown Cincinnati has been arrested at the Mexican border…

Ohio man receives medal for service during WWII

ASHTABULA, Ohio (AP) — A northeast Ohio man who was one of the first blacks to serve in the U.S. Marine Corps has been honored by his country nearly 70…

Executed inmate maintains he’s not guilty

LUCASVILLE, Ohio (AP) — Ohio carried out its 49th execution of the modern era smoothly while facing the possibility of a protracted legal battle ahead of the 50th execution next…

Malnourished Ohio boy ‘stiff as a board’

VERMILION, Ohio (AP) — A mother’s frantic plea for help for her disabled 18-month-old son — “He’s stiff as a board” — sent an ambulance crew to a reclusive family’s…

Columbia Gas customers paid more

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Consumers in Columbia Gas of Ohio territory have paid more, not less, since being offered a choice of natural-gas carriers under utility deregulation, a newspaper reported…