TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — Police in northwest Ohio are searching for three suspects in the shooting death of a business owner during a weekend home invasion.
Lucas County Sheriff John Tharp identified the victim of Saturday morning's attack as homeowner James Safadi, 34, of Waterville Township near Toledo.
Authorities said he apparently was an intended robbery victim.
According to The (Toledo) Blade (bit.ly/15ZqMOU), Safadi and his...
BOWLING GREEN, Ohio (AP) — Editor David C. Miller of The (Bowling Green) Sentinel-Tribune newspaper in Ohio died Saturday at a hospital in York, Pa., the paper said in a statement. He was 66.
Miller was vacationing at Gettysburg, Pa., in late April when he became ill, according to city editor Harold Brown.
Miller joined the Sentinel-Tribune staff in July 1971 as a reporter and had been editor since January 1980. Under his leadership the paper...
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (AP) — Police in a northeast Ohio community report a number of black bear sightings.
Police in Liberty Township near Youngstown say they have received several calls regarding bears in the area in recent days.
According to The (Youngstown) Vindicator (bit.ly/13w41L2), the police department Web page warns residents to remain calm if they see a bear.
It says black bears are nonaggressive and prefer to flee when they...
TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — Not much is known about a chemical compound that families believe is behind a cancer cluster in northern Ohio.
A federal civil lawsuit filed last week in Toledo points to a possible cause of the cancers that have sickened about 40 young people since the mid-1990s.
The families believe smokestacks from a Whirlpool Corp. plant in the Sandusky County city of Clyde sent the compound called benzaldehyde into the neighborhoods. Recent...
CHARDON, Ohio (AP) — A northeast Ohio superintendent who guided the district after a school shooting that killed three students is stepping down, one year later than originally planned.
Chardon Schools Superintendent Joseph Bergant will resign effective June 7.
A public reception honoring Bergant was held before last week's monthly board meeting.
Bergant originally submitted his resignation in September 2011 with the intent to...
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Peter Mattiace, editor of The (Findlay) Courier, was elected president of the Ohio Associated Press Media Editors association for 2013-14 at the group's annual convention Sunday.
M. L. Schultze, web editor of WKSU-FM in Kent, was named president-elect. Jim Bebbington, senior editor at Cox Media Group-Ohio, was elected to represent newspapers from all circulation divisions as an at-large director. Both positions are one-year terms....
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Radio and television stations in Columbus, Youngstown and New Philadelphia were named the best in the state today in the annual Ohio Associated Press Media Editors broadcast competition.
WSYX/WTTE-TV and WOSU-AM/FM were named Outstanding News Operations in the state's largest markets for 2012. Other first-place winners for Outstanding News Operation were WKBN/WYTV-TV in Youngstown and WTUZ-FM in New Philadelphia.
Thirty-one...
MASON, Ohio (AP) — Three of the actors from "The Brady Bunch" television series are returning to Kings Island for an anniversary celebration.
Actors Barry Williams (Greg Brady), Christopher Knight (Peter Brady) and Susan Olsen (Cindy Brady) were invited to the Cincinnati-area theme park Sunday to celebrate the 40th anniversary of a popular episode of the iconic 1970s TV show.
The episode that aired in 1973 was filmed at Kings Island. The episode...
MIDDLETOWN (AP) — Some Chinese students will come to a branch campus in a small southwest Ohio city to take classes this fall in a pilot program Miami University hopes will expand its global connections.
The pilot program at the Miami University Middletown campus is taking registrations now.
The Middletown Journal reports (http://bit.ly/12ZphZn) that a company affiliated with Renmin University in China recently bought a building near the campus that...
CLEVELAND (AP) — Kenyan Philemon Terer has won the Rite Aid Cleveland Marathon in 2 hours, 17 minutes, 37 seconds.
Another Kenyon, Sarah Kiptoo, won Sunday's women's race in 2:33:42.
The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer (bit.ly/19QoJsK) says both are represented by Richfield native Scott Robinson, who runs the AmeriKenyan Running Club in Santa Fe, N.M.
Brandon Bauer of New Albany was the top Ohio finisher. He finished in fifth place in 2...
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