CLEVELAND (AP) — Police say a man has been found dead from a gunshot wound to the head in an SUV in northeast Ohio. Officers say they received a report about 10:20 p.m. of gunfire in a Cleveland neighborhood. The responding officers found the man seated behind the wheel of the SUV. Police did not immediately release the man’s identity. …

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — With heroin overdoses killing more young people in Ohio than car crashes, prosecutors are turning up the heat on dealers, friends and others who unknowingly provide the doses that end up sending drug users to the morgue. Going after suppliers in drug-induced deaths isn’t a new idea — Congress passed such a “strict liability” law after …

TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — Former U.S. Rep. Mike Oxley, who helped write landmark anti-fraud legislation following a wave of corporate scandals that brought down Enron Corp. and WorldCom Inc., died Friday at age 71.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Opposition was strongest in suburbia to Ohio’s first-in-the-nation effort to legalize both medical and recreational marijuana in a single vote, according to an analysis of final election results. About 7 in 10 voters in the counties that ring Columbus and Toledo voted against last fall’s Issue 3, while more than 60 percent voted against it in …

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A legal dispute over changes to voting rules in swing state Ohio is now in the hands of a federal judge. At issue are a series of Republican-backed revisions that Democrats allege disproportionately burden black voters and those who lean Democratic. The state’s Democratic Party is among the plaintiffs suing the state’s Republican elections chief over …

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — State officials preached road safety Tuesday in anticipation of heavy end-of-year holiday travel, as Ohio already has dozens more traffic deaths this year than in all of 2014. State Highway Patrol statistics show 1,023 traffic fatalities confirmed so far in 2015, with several dozen more not yet verified. Ohio had 981 traffic deaths in 2014. The …

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Gov. John Kasich said Tuesday that he wants further cuts to the state’s income tax — even after a year that saw certain small-business taxes reduced to zero and across-the-board reductions statewide. “We have to lower the income tax more,” Kasich, a Republican presidential contender, said during year-end remarks to the Westerville Chamber of Commerce. “With …

BOWLING GREEN, Ohio (AP) — Authorities say an early morning crash in northwest Ohio has left two people dead. The Sentinel-Tribune reports a Saturn SL didn’t yield for a stop sign while making a turn in Lake Township and collided with another car just after midnight Sunday. The driver and passenger of the Saturn were trapped and had to be …

TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — A European wind developer will take the lead on building a new wind farm project in Lake Erie that’s designed to show the potential for alternative energy along the Ohio shoreline. Backers say the $120 million pilot project is expected to be up and running in 2018. Lake Erie Energy Develop-ment Corp. announced that Norwegian-based Fred.Olsen …

CLEVELAND — A Cleveland-area teen missing for nearly a month was found at a house in eastern Missouri where she was held captive by a 41-year-old man she met online, authorities said Wednesday. Federal prosecutors said the man had sex with the 15-year-old girl several times, destroyed her cellphone and told her to change her appearance and use a different …