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 …

BELLEFONTAINE, Ohio (AP) — A 21-year-old man is charged with murder and four other people also have been arrested in the fatal shooting of a man found dead in his western Ohio home on Thanksgiving. Authorities in Logan County say 21-year-old Marquevous Watkins, of Lima, is charged with murder and aggravated robbery in the slaying of 45-year-old Jeffrey Brentlinger. County …

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A Somali-born student who carried out a car-and-knife attack at Ohio State University stewed over the treatment of Muslims while apparently staying under the radar of federal law enforcement, underscoring the difficulty authorities face in identifying and stopping lone wolves bent on violence. Abdul Razak Ali Artan was not known to FBI counterterrorism authorities before Monday’s …

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Investigators are looking into whether a car-and-knife attack at Ohio State University that injured 11 people was an act of terror by a Somali-born student who had once criticized the media for its portrayal of Muslims. The attacker, identified as Abdul Razak Ali Artan, plowed his car into a group of pedestrians on campus shortly before …

EAST LIBERTY, Ohio (AP) — Honda says global mass production of the new version of its CR-V has begun in Ohio. The redesigned and reengineered 2017 CR-V goes on sale in the winter. Production at Honda’s East Liberty Auto Plant began Tuesday. The five-passenger CR-V is a compact SUV with the underpinnings of Honda’s popular Civic small car. It’s been …