DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — A county fair in southwest Ohio has seen a huge increase in attendance following a location    move. According to the Montgomery County Agricultural Society, 27,000 people attended the Montgomery County Fair this year at the new fairgrounds in Jefferson  Township. That’s about 13,000 more attendees than last year. The fairgrounds had spent over 160 years in …

CLEVELAND (AP) — A woman and her boyfriend have pleaded guilty in the death of the woman’s 5-year-old developmentally disabled son found buried in a backyard of a Cleveland home. Thirty-four-year-old Larissa Rodriguez was sentenced to 25 years in prison by a judge in Cleveland on Thursday. Thirty-six-year-old Christopher Rodriguez received 28 years for the death of Jordan Rodriguez, whose …

COLUMBUS – Because older adults are the fastest-growing segment of Ohio’s population, the Ohio Department of Aging and the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services ask all Ohioans to learn the warning signs of elder abuse, neglect and exploitation and know how to report it if they suspect that an older loved one or neighbor might be a target. …

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio said Tuesday that it will not have medical marijuana available by the September deadline, even as a key backer of recreational marijuana legalization said he’s using a combination of strategies to continue expanding access to safe cannabis. Several cultivators who were close to ramping up operations experienced inspection delays that now make it impossible to …

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio officials are ready to announce where the state’s 56 medical marijuana dispensaries will be located. The Board of Pharmacy is expected on Monday to name who will get the licenses in 28 geographic districts.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Republican Gov. John Kasich is opening all of Ohio’s public roads to smart vehicle testing. Kasich signed an executive order Wednesday authorizing autonomous vehicle research to take place across the state. The order also lays out safety parameters for such projects and creates a voluntary pilot program linking local governments to participating companies. The order extends …

URBANA, Ohio (AP) — Logan Cole remembers in graphic detail being shot at his Ohio high school, in the bathroom where he had popped in to check his hair before a mock trial competition. He remembers the impact to his chest, the splatter of his own blood on the wall, his front teeth cracking on the floor as he fell. …

COLUMBUS — A former volunteer treasurer who stole tens of thousands of dollars from two groups affiliated with the Shawnee Local School District in Allen County was sentenced late last week to five years of probation and ordered to pay $51,419 in restitution.

LIMA, Ohio (AP) — A former Miss Kentucky who tried to smuggle a small amount of marijuana into an Ohio prison for her boyfriend won’t have to spend time behind bars. The Lima News reports 28-year-old Kia Hampton, of Louisville, Kentucky, received probation Wednesday during a hearing in Allen County.

A seventh-grader who shot and killed himself inside an Ohio middle school restroom last week was planning to shoot others at the school before changing his mind at the last second, a police chief said Thursday. The boy, 13-year-old Keith Simons, came out of the bathroom holding a semi-automatic rifle just before classes began and then abruptly went back inside …