TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — An FBI dive team is joining the search in northwest Ohio for a 1-year-old girl missing for more than two weeks.
FBI spokeswoman Vicki Anderson tells The Blade (http://bit.ly/11lpfPd ) newspaper that they have information that led the dive team to search the Maumee River near downtown Toledo this week.
The girl's mother was charged last week with felony child endangering.
Investigators say Angela Steinfurth...
DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — The new racino being built in Dayton has cleared a financing hurdle.
Dayton-Montgomery County Port Authority directors voted Monday to authorize the issuance of $65 million in bonds to finance construction of the 119-acre harness-racing track that will also feature video slot machines.
Jerry Brunswick, executive director of the port authority, said the money will go toward construction materials for the $125 million project....
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (AP) — A northeast Ohio woman has admitted allowing her ex-boyfriend to fatally beat one of her sons while his twin brothers watched.
Shain Widdersheim pleaded guilty Monday in Mahoning County to four counts of child endangering and one count of obstruction of justice in the January death of her 14-year-old son, Teddy Foltz.
The (Youngstown) Vindicator (http://bit.ly/11LuiVw ) reports that prosecutors have recommended a 10-year...
CLEVELAND (AP) — Prosecutors in Cleveland are considering whether charges should be filed against private security guards who police say fatally shot a 20-year-old man during a confrontation last weekend.
Police said the incident involved five security guards from Kingdom Warrior Protection Company who were dispersing a crowd after a private party on the city's northeast side early Sunday.
The guards said Are'es Richards refused to move his car and...
MASON, Ohio (AP) — A new report says Ohio's Cedar Point and Kings Island were the most-visited theme parks in the nation last year outside of the usual hot spots in Florida and California.
The Themed Entertainment Association reports that Cedar Point in Sandusky came in 14th in the nation in attendance, and Kings Island near Cincinnati was 15th. Both had around 3.2 million visitors in 2012.
Disney's Magic Kingdom near Orlando, Fla., was the most...
BEREA, Ohio (AP) — Higher tolls on the Ohio Turnpike over the next decade will back $1 billion in bonds that will help pay for northern Ohio road projects.
Tolls will increase 2.7 percent a year to pay for work that would otherwise face years of delay because of lower revenue at the Ohio Department of Transportation.
The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer (http://bit.ly/1bQIe5v ) reports that the turnpike commission is expected to approve the toll increases at...
NEWARK, Ohio (AP) — A judge has sentenced a man to 23 years to life in prison after he admitted fatally shooting a contractor while trying to rob a rented barn in rural in central Ohio last year.
Fifty-year-old Danny Hensley pleaded guilty Monday to aggravated murder and aggravated robbery in the October slaying of Thomas Miller of Pataskala (puh-TASK-uh-lah), east of Columbus.
The 69-year-old Miller was a contractor who kept his tools and supplies...
DELAWARE, Ohio (AP) — A jury in central Ohio has ruled that a church should pay $3.6 million to a woman who was sexually assaulted by a former pastor when she was a teenager.
The jury in Delaware County, near Columbus, found Monday that Grace Brethren Church was negligent in supervising pastor Brian L. Williams. He pleaded guilty to assaulting the girl in 2008 and is serving an eight-year prison sentence.
The Columbus Dispatch (http://bit.ly/14H0FJc...
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The leader of the Ohio House says proposed changes to Medicaid are unlikely to pass by June 30.
House Speaker William Batchelder said Tuesday he expects the work to continue after the Legislature recesses for the summer.
The Republican said he had no time frame in mind for the work to be finished. He said legislators wanted to gather additional information.
Lawmakers have been trying to find common ground on...
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The state budget director has told a legislative committee that Ohio should have roughly $397 million in uncommitted funds left at the end of the current budget year.
The news comes as lawmakers head into final negotiations over Ohio's next two-year budget.
Budget Director Tim Keen and legislative analysts delivered updated state revenue and Medicaid caseload projections to a six-member conference committee on Tuesday....
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