PORT CLINTON, Ohio (AP) — Ohio's transportation department plans to fill-in an abandoned mine that runs under a busy highway along the western side of Lake Erie.
The state says the $20 million project near Port Clinton will prevent the old tunnel from the possibility of a collapse.
The gypsum mine was abandoned in the 1970s.
It sits near the Port Clinton airport under State Route 2, a busy highway that takes summer tourists to...
LEBANON, Ohio (AP) — A granite memorial and a section of highway in southwest Ohio have been dedicated to a sheriff's deputy killed in a high-speed chase.
Dozens of law enforcement officers and members of the public joined Sgt. Brian Dulle's (DOO'-lee) widow and three children at the ceremony Friday at the Warren County sheriff's office in Lebanon.
The 36-year-old sheriff's deputy was killed in May 2011 when he was struck by a fleeing vehicle while...
CLEVELAND (AP) — Two Ohioans accused of forcing teens into prostitution are facing human trafficking charges.
Federal authorities said Friday an Elyria man and Avon Lake woman have been charged in U.S. District Court in Cleveland with two counts of sex trafficking. One count involves a minor.
The two were arrested April 9 in Elyria. The woman told investigators she worked for the man, arranging sex meetings and posting online ads.
...COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine has angrily rebuked a promoter of video raffle machines offered as a fundraising opportunity for fraternal organizations for misstating his legal position on the games.
Ohio Veterans & Fraternal Charitable Coalition representative Tim Smith told member charities in a letter this spring that DeWine is "fully in favor" of the terminals and agreed they were legal. Smith described the devices as "a raffle form of...
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A prosecutor says an Ohio man accused of shooting a high-powered laser at a police helicopter has been charged.
The Franklin County prosecutor says a grand jury on Friday indicted 27-year-old Michael Rademacher of Columbus on one count of interfering with the operation of an aircraft with a laser and one count of possessing criminal tools.
Investigators say Columbus police officers were on helicopter patrol circling a targeted...
PAINESVILLE, Ohio (AP) — A victim paralyzed from an Ohio high school shooting that left three teens dead and three wounded has filed a lawsuit against the convicted shooter and the shooter's family.
Nick Walczak (WAL'-chak) sued 18-year-old T.J. Lane on Thursday in Lake County Common Pleas Court. Lane pleaded guilty in March to aggravated murder and other counts in the February 2012 shooting rampage at Chardon High School. He's appealing his life sentence....
CLEVELAND (AP) — The FBI says the rescue of three women held in captivity over a decade in Cleveland has generated new tips in separate cases involving a 14-year-old girl and 18-year-old woman who disappeared years ago in the same area.
FBI spokeswoman Vicki Anderson said Friday that the rescue of the three women Monday had generated possible leads among the numerous public inquiries about Christina Adkins and Ashley Summers. FBI teams are checking the tips....
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Records show a favorite witness on Ohio tax and economic issues who's relied upon for his objectivity draws a hefty stipend from a conservative trust fund.
An Associated Press review finds retired professor Richard Vedder draws only a fraction of his income from the public university he's commonly identified with, while receiving $150,000 annually in consulting fees from the Alexandria, Va.-based Donors Trust. He hasn't been on Ohio University's...
OTTAWA, Ohio (AP) — Authorities say two teenage brothers reported missing in an Amber Alert have been found dead after a third teen pointed investigators to the bodies before being taken into custody.
The Putnam County Sheriff's Office in northwest Ohio says an alert for 14-year-old Blaine Romes, 17-year-old Blake Romes and 17-year-old Michael Fay was issued yesterday morning after a relative of one returned to her Ottawa trailer home and found a crime scene....
CLEVELAND (AP) — Authorities in Cleveland say two people were killed when the car they were in went airborne and crashed into the second floor of a house on the city's east side.
Police said the car was speeding when the driver failed to make a turn just after midnight Friday. The car hit a curb and went airborne, bouncing off the roof of a garage, though some trees and into the second floor of the house.
Nobody in the house was injured. A man who...
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