Rule change grounds Ohio pension plan officials
Written by AP
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio panel wants to ground those who oversee the state's pension plans.
Former 'pill mill' owner receives 262-month sentence
Written by EXAMINER STAFF and Wire reports
CINCINNATI — Officials say the former owner of an Ohio "pill mill" has been sentenced to nearly 22 years in prison.
Trial hinging on dying Ohio man's blinks begins
Written by LISA CORNWELL,Associated Press
CINCINNATI (AP) — Jury selection began Monday in the trial of an Ohio man charged with murder in the shooting of a man authorities said identified his assailant by blinking his eyes while paralyzed and hooked up to a ventilator.
Authorities: Student shoots self in classroom
Written by DAN SEWELL,Associated Press
CINCINNATI (AP) — An honors student at an all-male Catholic high school tried to commit suicide in his first-period classroom Monday, police said, critically wounding himself with a gunshot and sending other students scrambling for cover.
Ohio bill would put open-container areas in cities
Written by AMANDA LEE MYERS,Associated Press
CINCINNATI (AP) — In the vein of the Las Vegas Strip and the streets of New Orleans, two Ohio lawmakers want the state's biggest cities to have entertainment districts where revelers can take their alcoholic drinks outdoors.
Kasich pick beats rival in bid for Ohio GOP chair
Written by JULIE CARR SMYTH,Associated Press
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Gov. John Kasich's pick to lead the Ohio Republican Party was elected Friday over a conservative challenger who warned party leaders they are dangerously out of touch with the party's grassroots base.
Ohio sees record high overdose deaths in 2011
Written by ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS,AP Legal Affairs Writer
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohioans are dying from drug overdoses at record-high rates, the state Department of Health said Friday as it released 2011 figures that place the blame on prescription painkillers and also show a worsening heroin problem.
Road dedication honors OH Marine killed in Iraq
Written by AP
CINCINNATI (AP) — Dedication of a portion of a highway in southwest Ohio is honoring a U.S. Marine from Ohio who was killed in Iraq in 2005.