BERLIN, Ohio (AP) — Authorities say a dozen people with minor injuries sustained minor injuries when a train ride at an eastern Ohio farm attraction went off the rails.
The Holmes County Sheriff's Office says the derailment happened Saturday afternoon at Schrock's Amish Farm and Village in Millersburg.
The office says 12 adults had minor injuries or complaints resulting from the derailment of the 16 gauge train. No children were reported hurt....
CLEVELAND (AP) — Two men were killed and two others wounded in separate shootings Saturday in Cleveland.
The Plain Dealer reports (http://bit.ly/18qGsba) 20-year-old Jayvion Walden of Cleveland Heights died of gunshot wounds to his chest and stomach around 3:40 a.m.
Preliminary investigation indicates that Walden was walking with two men when they were confronted by two other men who shot at them before fleeing.
Three hours later...
DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — A former longtime detective has been sentenced to 9½ years in prison for robbing an eastern Ohio bank and triggering the evacuation of several downtown Cambridge blocks by telling police he had an explosive device.
David Hirst pleaded guilty last month to aggravated robbery, grand theft, kidnapping, inducing panic and weapons charges.
The 50-year-old worked for Dayton police for 25 years, many of them as a fraud detective, before...
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio says there were 71 train-vehicle crashes last year, down from 112 in 2003.
The statistics are in the commission's Ohio Grade Crossing Statistics Report for 2012, released last week.
The report says more than half of last year's crashes were at crossings with active warning devices. It also says many of the crashes occurred because of drivers failing to stop, driving around the gates or...
AKRON, Ohio (AP) — A Canton man who went into cardiac arrest during a half-marathon last weekend in Cleveland wants to find and thank the emergency workers who saved his life.
Richard Strain said that he felt what he thought was heartburn about a mile into Cleveland's half-marathon last Sunday.
He made it another five miles before the pain became so severe that he was forced to start walking.
Strain doesn't remember much after...
TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — A 17-foot crocodile, dingoes, wallabies and a green tree python are among more than 50 species of Australian animals that just debuted at the Toledo Zoo.
The Wild Walkabout exhibit opened this weekend and is attracting a crowd.
The biggest draw is Baru the crocodile, weighing in at 1,500 pounds. He hails from Australia, where he was captured for killing too many cows.
Jeff Sailer, executive director of the...
CINCINNATI (AP) — A Cincinnati man has been sentenced to the maximum 55 years in prison in the September kidnapping and robbery of a cab driver left clinging to life.
A jury found 30-year-old Charles Black guilty of felonious assault, kidnapping aggravated robbery and other charges on Friday.
The Cincinnati Enquirer reports that (http://cin.ci/10rngZe) Charles robbed Mulugeta Shiferaw and put him in the trunk of his taxi while he drove it around town...
CINCINNATI (AP) — Visitors of a massive food festival in downtown Cincinnati this weekend will have a chance to help victims of Oklahoma's deadly tornado.
Organizers of the 35th annual Taste of Cincinnati say they've partnered with the American Red Cross to raise money for Oklahoma relief. People can donate at a booth on Fountain Square in the heart of the festival.
The event, staged along the same six downtown blocks as Oktoberfest, runs Saturday...
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio has 278 bridges similar to the one that collapsed on in Washington this week, sending cars and people into the water below.
State transportation officials point out that Washington's bridge collapse was caused by a truck driver who hit a girder, not a failing bridge.
But the accident renews concerns about bridge safety as infrastructure ages throughout the country and Ohio.
The County Engineers...
CLEVELAND (AP) — A Cleveland woman stricken with late-stage cancer has been able to fulfill one of her last wishes: Stay alive long enough to watch her oldest granddaughter graduate from high school.
Barbara Malone was diagnosed with colorectal cancer in 2008 and has been undergoing various treatments ever since.
Most recently, the 62-year-old stopped taking a new cancer drug after it had no effect for three months. She says she'll probably have to...
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