CINCINNATI (AP) — Republican Ohio Treasurer Josh Mandel announced Friday he is dropping his second bid to unseat Democratic U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown, citing his wife’s health. Mandel’s decision came in an open letter to friends and family and leaves Cleveland banker Mike Gibbons for now as the leading Republican candidate. Brown, who defeated Mandel in 2012, is seeking a …

TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — A man accused of taking part in a scheme to smuggle teenagers into the U.S. and force them to work at an egg farm for little pay is in custody after being arrested at the Mexican border, federal prosecutors announced. The teens from Guatemala were kept as virtual slave laborers, forced to turn over most of …

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio will pay to support development of pain management alternatives, mobile apps to improve addiction treatment and other advanced technologies through $10 million in competitive grants. The 15 grant winners of the Ohio Third Frontier Commission’s competition supporting scientific breakthroughs that address the national opioid epidemic were announced Thursday. The research and technology initiative made up …

COLUMBUS – Nearly 90 percent of older drivers do not make inexpensive adaptations to their vehicles that can improve safety and extend their time behind the wheel, according to new research from the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety. AAA is releasing this data in conjunction with the American Occupational Therapy Associations’ (AOTA) Older Driver Safety Awareness Week (Dec. 4-8, 2017). …

EUCLID, Ohio (AP) — A black man says in a lawsuit that he was kicked in the face, kneed in the groin    and seriously hurt by a  white suburban Cleveland police officer recently       fired for using excessive force on a black man in another case. Erimius Spencer filed the suit Friday against the city of Euclid, former Euclid police officer …

OXFORD, Ohio (AP) — Miami University in southwest Ohio has a historical handful with five siblings from one family taking classes at the same time. The Ridge family — 24-year-old Connor, 22-year-old twins Hannah and Christian, 21-year-old Cameron and 18-year-old Olivia — are all enrolled in either graduate or undergraduate classes at Miami’s main campus in Oxford or its regional …

COLUMBUS — State officials say hunters checked more than 22,000 white-tailed deer on the opening day of Ohio’s deer-gun hunting season. The Ohio Department of Natural Resources says 22,336 deer were harvested Monday as the season began across the state.

TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — A coalition representing minority groups in Ohio’s fourth-largest city hopes a code of conduct signed with police to improve relations between the two can be a model for other cities. The pact outlines how people in the city should be respectful while dealing police and how officers should limit use of force and spend more time …

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The American Civil Liberties Union was weighing a legal challenge to the crime victim rights amendment a day after it was overwhelmingly approved by Ohio voters.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio voters rejected a proposal Tuesday that sought to curb prescription drug prices paid by the state for prisoners, injured workers and poor people while supporting a crime victims’ rights amendment with no organized opposition. The pharmaceutical industry spent an estimated $70 million to oppose Issue 2, the Ohio Drug Price Relief Act, saying it would …