Ohio

The Ohio Parole Board is hearing a petition this week that could set a convicted child rapist free, But a man who helped send William Wasmus to prison is trying to convince the Parole Board that he needs to stay behind bars. WCMH reports.

A former televangelist minister convicted of child rape and sentenced to 220 years behind bars may go free depending on what the Ohio Parole Board decides.

Ohio’s Republican secretary of state is assuring residents that the election will be secure and accurate after a county sent wrong ballots to 50,000 voters

Police used a stun gun on an Ohio woman and forcibly removed her from a middle school football game on Wednesday evening after she refused to wear a face mask, NBC News reports.

Joe Deloss is the owner of Hot Chicken Takeover, a Nashville-style hot chicken restaurant in Westlake, Ohio, that is creating opportunities for people in need of work and helping create a brand that meaningfully advances social change.

A 56-year-old man with the coronavirus attending a single church service in Ohio led to the infection’s spread to at least 91 other people across five counties. Gov. Mike DeWine posted a graphic to his Facebook page Wednesday detailing how the virus spread over a three-week period from the date of the church service on June 14 to July 4. “It spread like wildfire,”...

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine has tested negative for COVID-19 after testing positive earlier in the day before he was to meet with President Donald Trump

Tormented by mind-scarring memories and questions without answers, Dion Green has dedicated his life after the death of his father and eight other people in a mass shooting to memorializing them and trying to bring helpful change

The powerful Republican speaker of the Ohio House and four associates have been arrested in a $60 million federal bribery case connected to a taxpayer-funded bailout of Ohio’s two nuclear power plants.

President Donald Trump is facing an unexpectedly competitive landscape in Ohio because he’s lost ground in metropolitan and suburban areas

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine said Tuesday that while he’s not in favor of the removal of statues of Christopher Columbus, he’s open to discussions that arise about people’s place in history.

Hundreds of protests over Black injustice have cropped up in small cities in rural areas across the upper Midwest and Rust Belt, many with their own lingering current of white supremacy and racial unrest.

A Republican lawmaker asked on the Ohio Senate floor if “the colored population” is contracting coronavirus at disproportionate rates because they do not wash their hands as “well as other groups.”

An Ohio-based restaurant chain’s decision to close several locations after a group of employees refused to fulfill an order for law enforcement officers has been met with both praise and criticism from customers.

Attorneys for the parents of a disabled teen in Ohio say they have settled a lawsuit over his forced baptism at a church picnic in 2016.

Former Vice President Joe Biden has won Ohio’s presidential primary.

A federal judge Monday temporarily blocked Texas’ efforts to ban abortions during the coronavirus pandemic, handing Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers a victory as clinics across the U.S. filed a wave of lawsuits to stop states from trying to shutter them during the outbreak.

GOJO, the maker of Purell hand sanitizer, is facing two class-action lawsuits accusing it of “misleading claims” that it can prevent “99.9% of illness-causing germs,” NBC News reports.

Jeff Flake has a direct message for the Republicans of New Hampshire: Someone needs to stop Donald Trump. And Flake, a Republican senator from Arizona, may stand up against the Republican president in 2020 — either as a Republican or an independent — if no one else does. “It has not been in my plans to run for president, but...

“This is why we rescue.” It’s a fitting caption for a photo melting animal lovers’ hearts across the country.