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MARION - Shawn Watts calls himself the class clown. The 18-year-old who had previously attended Rigdedale High School dropped out of River Valley High School in 2008.

The state's decision to replace a three-drug lethal injection with a powerful dose of one anesthetic is raising the possibility of what may have seemed unthinkable not so long ago: a truce in the long-running legal challenges to death penalty injection across the country.

Ohio's death chamber is set to resume executions next month using a single drug that has been used in the U.S. to euthanize pets but never to put condemned prisoners to death.Barring legal challenges, condemned inmate Kenneth Biros is scheduled Dec.

I am a theoretical physicist and currently Director of UCITE at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio.

COSHOCTON -- As she waited in a lengthy line with a camouflage stool and jacket in hand, Rhonda Ringalt was impressed with her vast surroundings of outdoor gear.

Two people dead after a motorcycle crash on state Route 511 at about 7:15 p.m. Saturday in Rochester Township.

MARION - Legislation that would allow the city to participate in an ongoing countywide evaluation of how to improve fire service is on Marion City Council's agenda for Monday.

MANSFIELD -- Local candidates got moving on their campaigns Saturday, helped along by state Rep.

Aug. 26 Arrests Michael K. Stacy II, 22, 237 Olney Ave., was arrested on a warrant for failure to appear.

Gov. Ted Strickland's answer Friday to a pair of feuding administrators within the Ohio Department of Public Safety was to clear house.

GRANVILLE TOWNSHIP - On June 27, a man had reached his breaking point and was prepared to jump to his death from a Mink Street bridge onto Interstate 70.

GRANVILLE TOWNSHIP - On June 27, a man had reached his breaking point and was prepared to jump to his death from a Mink Street bridge onto Interstate 70.

GRANVILLE TOWNSHIP - On June 27, a man had reached his breaking point and was prepared to jump to his death from a Mink Street bridge onto Interstate 70.

COLUMBUS -- Ryan D. Randall is the new assistant commander of the Ohio Highway Patrol's Milan post.

For some students, it's a second chance. They dropped out of high school or lacked credits needed to graduate.

COLUMBUS -- Ryan D. Randall is the new assistant commander of the Ohio Highway Patrol's Milan post.

From cornfields to baseball fields. It was a fleeting dream that crossed the mind of Owen Blakslee when he was an 11-year-old boy absent-mindedly plowing his fathera s cornfields on Weymouth Road in Medina Township.