Maurice Clarett, former Ohio State football star, has been arrested for driving under the influence felony. The former football star was present during his initial trial at the Morrow County Court in Mount Gilead.
A judge in Ohio used a poem to deny a lawsuit filed by a prisoner at the Correctional Reception Center in Orient, who accused a guard for not letting him go to the bathroom, causing him to soil his pants.
Man guilty of sex trafficking 4 minors. He waiting for his sentence. Man from Pennsylvania pleaded guilty on January 7 this year for sex trafficking. Robert Middlebrook, 41, of Clairton was seen with four teenagers in his cars during a traffic stop.
Governor John Kasich of Ohio expressed his thoughts regarding the 12-year old Tamir Rice who was shot dead in November 22, 2014. The governor called the Ohio grand jury's decision 'controversial.'
Attorneys for Planned Parenthood sued Ohio on Sunday, asking a judge to block what it argues is an attempt by the state's top attorney to stop the organization from providing abortion services, court filings showed.
Ohio voters soundly rejected on Tuesday a measure that would have made it the first U.S. Midwestern state to legalize the recreational use of marijuana, local media projections said.
An Ohio prosecutor handling the fatal shooting by police of a 12-year-old boy while he played with a replica pistol was criticized by activists on Sunday for releasing two reports that called the shooting "reasonable" before any grand jury decision on charges had been announced.
A divided Ohio appeals court panel on Friday said it would not force a municipal judge to issue arrest warrants for Cleveland police officers involved in the fatal shooting of 12-year-old Tamir Rice in a city park last November.
The Ohio Senate passed a bill on Wednesday that would ban abortions after 20 weeks of gestation, following the passage of a similar ban by the Wisconsin Senate this month.
The U.S. Supreme Court's move on Monday to allow gay marriage to proceed in Alabama is the strongest signal yet that the justices are likely to rule in June that no state can restrict marriage to only heterosexual couples.
A U.S. judge ruled on Friday that an Ohio man charged with plotting to attack the U.S. Capitol with guns and bombs be held without bail after prosecutors said he posed a threat to national security.
Gay marriage supporters in four states where bans on same-sex nuptials were upheld by a federal appeals court said on Friday they will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to take up the issue, and officials in two of the states vowed to do the same.
Voters approved a ban on hydraulic fracturing in the north Texas town of Denton on Tuesday, making it the first city in the Lone Star State to outlaw the oil and gas extraction technique behind the U.S. energy boom.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday cut back on early voting in Ohio by preventing people from casting in-person ballots this week in the lead-up to the Nov. 4 midterm elections.
Lake Forest, Illinois-based pharmaceutical firm Hospira Inc claimed in a statement that the company will not be able to guarantee that a US prison will not be able to obtain its drugs to be used for capital punishment despite the fact that it is objecting to its use, a report by The Associated Press said.
Ohio police said that Reshad Riddle killed his father, Richard with a single shot from a handgun on Sunday afternoon at the Hawatha Church of God in Crist in the city of Ashtabula after an Easter service on Sunday. The 25-year-old son reportedly was yelling about God and Allah after the killing.
Two students and members of the Steubenville High School football team, Trent Mays and Ma'Lik Richmond were found guilty Sunday of raping a drunken 16-year-old girl during series of end of summer parties on August 11, 2012, the Associate Press reported. They were sentenced to at least a year in juvenile jail.
Police Captain Joel Walker testified on Tuesday about finding two photos of a nude girl on a cell phone belong ing to a 17-year old boy accused of rape along with another teenage in Steubenville, Ohio.
Two teens narrowly escaped a car crash that killed six of their friends, in Northeast Ohio on Sunday.
The inside of the sport utility vehicle was entirely under water within minutes of the crash, said State Highway Patrol Lt. Brian Holt. Investigators remain puzzled why eight were in the speeding vehicle "without permission when it smashed into a guardrail and flipped over into the pond Sunday morning around daybreak."
Frederick Teesh, who fatally shot an adult bookstore security guard at the end of a multi state crime spree nearly 20 years ago, was pronounced dead after a single powerful dose of pentobarbital.
Jury selection began on Tuesday in Akron, Ohio for the trial of Richard Beasley, charged in the murders of three men, two of whom were lured by a Craigslist ad for a non-existent job,
