FREMONT, Ohio (AP) — A jailed sheriff accused of stealing prescription drugs and deceiving doctors into giving him painkillers pleaded guilty on Tuesday and will be stripped of his badge. Sandusky County Sheriff Kyle Overmyer pleaded guilty to 13 felony counts, including theft in office and altering records. He faces a maximum of just over 14 years in prison when …

ELYRIA, Ohio (AP) — A former Ohio attorney who authorities say hypnotized unwitting female clients for his sexual gratification was sentenced Monday to 12 years in prison. Michael Fine was sentenced in Lorain County after pleading guilty in September to kidnapping and attempted kidnapping charges involving six women. The judge ordered Fine, 59, classified as a registered sex offender. Defense …

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio voters delivered victories Tuesday to Donald Trump for president and Rob Portman for U.S. Senate, two Republicans who ran very different campaigns. The battleground state’s voters also returned all 16 congressional incumbents to office on an Election Day with no major legal or technical hiccups and mostly sunny, unseasonably warm November weather. In defeating Democrat …

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A prosecutor says two men accused in a shooting that left a 2-year-old girl dead and her parents injured in Ohio have been indicted on charges including aggravated murder. Franklin County Prosecutor Ron O’Brien says 51-year-old Norman Burke and 22-year-old Jaquon Poindexter were indicted on Friday on the charges that also include murder, attempted murder, aggravated …

HAMILTON, Ohio (AP) — A woman accused of arranging to have her estranged husband killed and a couple accused of being involved in the plot have pleaded not guilty to charges of conspiracy to commit aggravated murder in southwestern Ohio. The Hamilton-Middletown Journal-News reports that 42-year-old Shelly Carter, of Madison Township, and the Middletown couple pleaded not guilty Thursday in …

CINCINNATI (AP) — Officials with the Ohio zoo where a gorilla was shot and killed when a 3-year-old got into its enclosure say they’ve improved the exhibit’s barrier. The Cincinnati Enquirer reports the new barrier at the Cincinnati Zoo has mesh fencing from top to bottom and stands 42 inches high. That’s 6 inches taller than the previous barrier. Zoo …

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A German shepherd struggles to crawl back to safety after being severely injured in Vietnam. A Belgian Malinois appears to pant as it stands on four legs — its front-left paw replaced by a prosthetic limb and its left ear gone after an explosion in Iraq. Although these canines are made of wood, they represent the …

TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — Ohio is moving its death row for the third time in little over a decade, this time because of the growing number of aging inmates serving death sentences, state prison officials said Friday. Death row will go from Chillicothe in southern Ohio to the Toledo Correctional Institution, a trip of more than three hours. Toledo’s prison …

PIKETON, Ohio (AP) — Six months after someone shot eight members of an extended family to death in their homes, surviving relatives are still waiting — for an explanation, for an arrest, for a hint of closure. “I just want to know why?” said Tajianna Mead, of Waverly, whose 44-year-old father, Kenneth Rhoden, was among the victims. When the slayings …

CLEVELAND (AP) — A man charged with fatally shooting his daughter in the head at their suburban home “planned out” the killing, an assistant prosecutor said in court on Wednesday. The man, 63-year-old Jamal Mansour, pleaded not guilty through his attorney to aggravated murder, murder and felonious assault charges in the shooting death last month of 27-year-old Tahani Mansour, the …