COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — There will be “ample security” at the funeral for six of the eight people shot and killed in rural southern Ohio in what authorities call a planned attack targeting one family, Ohio’s attorney general said. The service Tuesday at a West Portsmouth church is the last of three funerals for the victims. Seven adults and a …

LIMA, Ohio (AP) — Police say a man drowned trying to save a boy who had fallen into a cold northwest Ohio river. Officials say Greg Stevenson jumped into the water — estimated at about 40 degrees at the time — to rescue the boy. City firefighters pulled him out further downstream. Officials say a police officer jumped into the …

PIKETON, Ohio (AP) — From her house on Union Hill Road, Brittany Barker heard the first sirens first thing in the morning. She looked out and saw four police vehicles rush past. That was only the beginning. “They just kept coming, kept coming, and kept coming,” she recalled. Authorities in this struggling corner of Appalachia were dealing with what turned …

DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio college student still faces trial next month after his arrest for rushing the stage at a Donald Trump rally.

CINCINNATI (AP) — A coroner’s report released Tuesday showed new details of vicious violence in the shooting deaths of eight members of a rural southern Ohio family, finding most victims were shot three to nine times each and some of them were bruised.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — As the investigation into the killings of eight family members in rural Ohio entered its fifth day, more details slowly trickled out. Pike County Prosecutor Rob Junk told the Columbus Dispatch Monday that the marijuana operations discovered at three of the four crime scenes included a grow-house sheltering hundreds of plants. “It wasn’t just somebody sitting …

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Medical marijuana will be legalized in Ohio by summer, state representatives pledged Wednesday, calling their legislative effort more responsible and comprehensive than any ballot proposal. The Ohio legislation comes as the national Marijuana Policy Project pursues a medical marijuana issue for the state’s fall ballot. Polling during a more sweeping ballot campaign that failed last year …

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio police officer died two days after he was critically wounded when a man opened fire on a SWAT team trying to arrest him for allegedly setting his estranged wife’s house ablaze, officials said. Columbus police said Officer Steven M. Smith died late Tuesday afternoon, surrounded by his family. He was 54 years old. Lincoln …

TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — A federal judge sentenced two men to prison on Monday for taking part in a scheme to smuggle teens into the U.S. and keep them as virtual slaves at an Ohio egg farm, but he delayed sentencing for the ringleader after learning he had not given up   properties taken from the victims’ families. In 2014, federal …

ANSONIA, Ohio (AP) — A chemical spill inside an Ohio high school classroom has sent seven students and two staff members to a hospital. A fire official in Ansonia says none of the illnesses is considered serious. Ansonia fire Assistant Chief Dusty Brunner tells the Dayton Daily News a small amount of a pesticide used to treat fruit trees spilled …