CHARDON, Ohio (AP) — Newly released court records underscore the troubled family life of a 17-year-old Ohio boy charged in a school shooting rampage that killed three students. Records released in Chardon say T.J. Lane’s father challenged his paternity in 1995, but tests showed there was a 99 percent chance he’s the father. That year, […]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Authorities say a trio of juvenile detainees who allegedly beat a jailer to escape from their western Ohio lock-up have been recaptured. Columbus police arrested 17-year-old Caleb Jacobs Wednesday afternoon, about an hour after Cincinnati police arrested Danny Ellis Jr. and Devante Smith, both 15. The Columbus Dispatch reports (http://bit.ly/wy7qY4 ) the […]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio lawmaker plans Thursday to introduce a proposal to ban new ownership of exotic animals in the state, months after authorities shot dozens of lions, tigers, bears and other wild creatures let loose by their suicidal owner. A Republican state senator from Zanesville, the eastern Ohio city where the animals were […]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio’s high court says people of “ordinary intelligence” should know loud when they hear loud. That was the essence of a unanimous Ohio Supreme Court ruling Wednesday. It upheld the constitutionality of Ohio’s disorderly conduct law against excessive noise. Jason Carrick of Wayne County challenged the statute as unconstitutionally vague after being arrested […]
CLEVELAND (AP) — The U.S. Postal Service said Thursday it has decided to move mail processing operations from nine Ohio facilities to other sites, mostly in Cleveland or Columbus, but spare the Cincinnati facility from consolidation. The financially struggling postal service had been studying the possible elimination of 10 processing facilities in Ohio, prompting protests […]
FREDERICK, Md. (AP) — A Frederick County judge is affirming a decision blocking a key component of a proposed multistate power line. Circuit Judge Edward Dwyer issued his opinion Wednesday in a case involving the Potomac-Appalachian Transmission Highline. He affirmed a local zoning board’s denial of Potomac Edison’s plan to build an electrical substation on 150 acres […]
CINCINNATI (AP) — An Ohio city is preparing to adopt tough new restrictions on scrap metal sales aimed at curbing theft problems. Cincinnati city council could vote as soon as Wednesday afternoon’s meeting on proposed rules that legislative experts say would be among the nation’s strictest. They would require frequent sellers to obtain licenses, pass […]
AKRON, Ohio (AP) — The star witness at a high-profile public corruption trial in northeast Ohio has testified against a former political power broker, saying the man craved free meals, liquor and prostitutes. Former Cuyahoga (ky-uh-HOH’-guh) County Auditor Frank Russo took the stand Tuesday at the Akron federal court trial of former Commissioner Jimmy Dimora. […]