DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — Protesters greeted President Donald Trump’s arrival in Dayton Wednesday, blaming his incendiary rhetoric for inflaming political and racial tensions in the country and demanding action on gun control as he visited survivors of last weekend’s mass shootings and saluted first responders. The president and first lady Melania Trump began their visit…
By COREY WILLIAMS AND CARYN ROUSSEAU Associated Press In 2011, 6-year-old Timmothy Pitzen’s mother picked him up at school in Illinois, took him to the zoo and a water park, and then killed herself at a hotel, leaving a note in which she said her son was fine but that no one would ever…
By JOHN SEEWER , Associated Press One of the last industrial anchors in what was once Ohio’s manufacturing core is now on life support, just a little over a year after President Donald Trump told people not to leave and promised that jobs would come back to the area. General Motors announced Monday it will…
HILLIARD, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio high school student says he tried to remain nonpolitical during school walkouts over gun violence and was suspended for a day because he stayed in a classroom instead of joining protests or the alternative, a study hall. Hilliard senior Jacob Shoemaker says school isn’t the place for politics, and…
By MARK GILLISPIE and ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS, Associated Press WESTERVILLE, Ohio (AP) — Two Ohio police officers responding to a 911 hang-up call were fatally shot on Saturday after entering an apartment in a Columbus suburb and a suspect was taken into custody, authorities said. Westerville Police Chief Joe Morbitzer said officer Eric Joering, 39, died at…
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) – An Ohio House committee has voted to pass a bill that would ban abortions after 20 weeks. The committee voted Wednesday night to pass the ban, which now heads to the full House for consideration Thursday. That follows House approval Tuesday night of the so-called heartbeat bill, which would prohibit abortions…
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) – A police union leader says the Ohio officer who fatally shot a 13-year-old boy while investigating a reported armed robbery is a well-respected policeman who did what he had to do in that circumstance. Columbus police say Officer Bryan Mason repeatedly shot Tyre King on Wednesday night after the teen ran…
LISBON, Ohio (AP) – A 4-year-old Ohio boy pictured in police photos in the back seat of a car while his grandmother and her boyfriend were slumped over from a drug overdose is moving in with other relatives. Columbiana County Juvenile Court administrator Dane Walton tells The Associated Press that the boy’s great uncle and…
XENIA, Ohio (AP) – A former Stanford University swimmer whose six-month sentence for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman sparked a national outcry has registered as a sex offender in Ohio, where he’s living with his parents. Brock Turner registered at the Greene County sheriff’s office on Tuesday, four days after leaving a California jail after…
