NEW FRANKLIN, Ohio (AP) — Police in northeast Ohio have no leads in solving a Friday the 13th mystery involving the dumping of several dismembered deer carcasses alongside a road. The Akron Beacon Journal reports the mutilated and disemboweled remains of at least three deer were discovered on the side of a road in New Franklin last Friday morning. Police …

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Gov. John Kasich said Thursday that he is creating a position for a chief innovation officer to pursue and oversee developments in emerging technologies, as he seeks to guide the state through a challenging budget cycle. The Republican governor announced the post in wide-ranging remarks to a gathering of Ohio business leaders. He was joined by …

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio advocates of the federal health care law targeted by President-elect Donald Trump and congressional Republicans said Wednesday that repeal would jeopardize insurance coverage for as many as 1 million Ohioans by 2019 and hurt families and businesses. Their warnings came as the state’s Democratic U.S.   senator and Republican governor expressed their own concerns at separate …

A seat pulled out of Lake Erie from a plane carrying six people when it vanished more than a week ago near Cleveland contained the remains of a male, officials said Tuesday. No other remains have been found in the search, but crews have pulled part of the fuselage, several seats, an engine and a wheel from the icy waters, …

CLEVELAND (AP) — Crews searching Lake Erie on Friday found what may be human remains on a seat from a plane that was carrying six people when it disappeared more than a week ago. Officials said Friday night that the remains were being analyzed by a medical examiner to determine if they are human. They said the remains were found …

DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — The lengthy death of a condemned killer who snorted and gasped in Ohio’s death chamber was unlike anything the leader of the state’s execution team had seen before, the executioner said in federal court. The man testifying anonymously as Team Member No. 10 said he “was wondering what was going on” during the 2014 execution of …

CINCINNATI (AP) — Southwest Airlines plans to end service at two Ohio airports while adding flights elsewhere in the region. The Dallas-based carrier says it’s pulling out of Akron-Canton Airport and Dayton International Airport in June. Instead of daily flights between Dayton and Chicago, it will offer Chicago and Baltimore-Washington flights from the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport in Hebron, Kentucky. …

ZANESFIELD, Ohio (AP) — The snow machines billowed clouds of snow as the sun cut through the wintry haze to illuminate Mad River Mountain’s new lodge. The beams of light also brought the promise of better luck this ski season. Inside, carpenters, electricians and designers scrambled to complete work on the $7.5 million lodge in the run-up to its official …

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The Ohio House adjourned for the year Wednesday, eliminating the possibility that lawmakers would try to override Gov. John Kasich’s vetoes of abortion and renewable energy bills. House members ended the session three days before the midnight Saturday deadline for possible veto override votes. At issue before the adjournment was the potential to override the governor’s …

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Neighbors say a central Ohio police officer heroically rescued a woman from the second floor of a burning duplex, then collapsed on the street and had to be treated for smoke inhalation. The Columbus Dispatch reports the officer arrived before firefighters and broke down the door on the vacant side of the duplex to rescue the …