CLEVELAND (AP) — A man freed from prison after spending 18 years behind bars for a murder he said he didn’t commit is fighting for a declaration of innocence that could allow him to receive compensation. Anthony Lemons sought a new trial and proved that shoes used to connect him to the case weren’t made at the time of the …

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — An annual anti-crime program helps make Ohio’s capital safer despite criticism from protesters of two fatal shootings by officers, police said Wednesday in releasing statistics associated with the summer initiative. The program deploys more officers during the warmer months in an effort to stem violence in the city’s most vulnerable neighborhoods. But calls for changes to …

PARMA, Ohio (AP) — The president of a school board in northeast Ohio has resigned as the district grapples with cutting $15 million from its budget over the next two years. Parma City School Board president Kathleen Petro announced her resignation on Tuesday during a meeting on the proposed budget plan. She then left. Vice President Lynn Halloran took over …

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The Columbus police officer who fatally shot 13-year-old Tyre King has returned to the force, although not in his prior assignment as a patrol officer.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The families of two black people fatally shot by city police renewed their requests Tuesday for independent investigations into the officers’ actions while describing the emotional toll of losing their loved ones. Relatives of Tyre King, 13, and Henry Green, 23, sought to define them beyond details released in police records. Green was “a typical kid” …

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Dozens of demonstrators protesting the fatal police shooting of a 13-year-old black boy brought a city council meeting to a halt Monday in Columbus as they called for an independent investigation. Police have said Tyre King was shot multiple times on Sept. 14 after he ran from a white officer investigating a reported armed robbery and …

OXFORD, Ohio (AP) — A linguist at a southwest Ohio college has been named a MacArthur Fellow and will receive the so-called “genius grant” to continue his work to restore use of an indigenous language. Miami University Professor Daryl Baldwin is among the 2016 recipients of the fellowship awarded to individuals every year by the John D. and Catherine T. …

BELLEVUE, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio woman and her husband have died in a two-vehicle crash in northwest Ohio. Troopers from the State Highway Patrol post in Fremont say the crash occurred Wednesday morning in York Township in Sandusky County. The patrol says a car driven by 81-year-old Lucille Lepley, of Bellevue, failed to yield at an intersection and was …

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A Republican state lawmaker from northwest Ohio plans to resign in two weeks to work for the Ohio Chamber of Commerce. The Ohio House speaker says Rep. Jeff McClain, of Upper Sandusky, will resign Oct. 2. He’s taking a job as the director of tax and economic policy for the chamber of commerce. McClain is in …

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Long stuck in the shadow of sister cities Cleveland and Cincinnati, Columbus is Ohio’s city on the rise. Cranes dot the skyline, rising above blocks of new downtown condos. The population has been booming for years, while the numbers in the state’s other major cities have fallen or remained steady. But as it grows, Columbus also …