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 …

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Gov. John Kasich on Wednesday rejected mercy for the first inmate scheduled for execution next year under a new process for putting condemned prisoners to death. The governor also delayed the execution of Ronald Phillips by one month following a federal judge’s order last week that temporarily put executions on hold. Phillips is now scheduled for …

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) — Federal rail and state transportation officials approved a process that could restore passenger rail service to Fort Wayne. Fort Wayne City Councilman Geoff Paddock said the preliminary work looking into restarting service is expected to begin in January and end by fall. It’ll include a rough assessment of the engineering, technical aspects and the environmental …

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — All 18 of Ohio’s Electoral College members helped Republican Donald Trump secure the presidency Monday, rejecting letters, phone calls, emails and marches by protesters seeking to change their minds. The unanimous vote occurred after Republican Gov. John Kasich, a Trump detractor, was compelled to appear in the Ohio Statehouse’s Senate chambers to play an official role …

WARREN, Ohio (AP) — The grandmother of two small children who swallowed heroin at her northeast Ohio home has been sentenced to 90 days in jail. The Warren Tribune Chronicle reports a judge in Warren sentenced 44-year-old Lisa Davis on Wednesday after Davis pleaded guilty in October to a felony charge of allowing drug abuse. The two children, ages 9 …

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Republican Gov. John Kasich signed a bill Tuesday imposing a 20-week abortion ban while vetoing stricter provisions in a separate measure that would have barred the procedure at the first detectable fetal heartbeat. The so-called heartbeat bill would have prohibited most abortions once a fetal heartbeat is detected, which can be as early as six weeks …

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — John Glenn will lie in state in Ohio’s capitol building before a celebration of his life of military and government service and two history-making voyages into space. The public viewing at the Ohio Statehouse and a memorial service at Ohio State University’s Mershon Auditorium are planned for late next week. The dates and times were being …