Ohio News

President Obama met with leaders of both parties Tuesday to move forward one of his key objectives: a bill designed to stimulate job creation.

NEW RICHMOND, Ohioa 'A fire official in southwest Ohio says a high school was evacuated and five students were taken to hospitals after about 13 complained of feeling lightheaded.

Police say an 8-year-old Ohio girl has died after falling into a hole she dug while playing in a snow bank in front of her family's home.

An Ohio fire department says the smell of decaying radishes prompted calls from residents worried about a possible gas leak.

An Ohio man has been sentenced to 44 years in prison on charges that he held his estranged wife at gunpoint at a retirement home where she worked.Police said Michael Swiergosz was distraught over his pending divorce when he went to the assisted-living center, pointed a gun at an employee and told her to call his wife.

Ohio transportation officials say $400 million in federal stimulus money for a new passenger train service should arrive by spring.

A federal drug agent acquitted of framing 17 suspects in a 2005 investigation hopes to return to regular duty soon, the attorney defending him against civil lawsuits in the botched sting said Monday.

Gov. Ted Strickland is expected at the funeral for an Ohio State Highway Patrol trooper killed in a crash while on duty last week.

A Cleveland man has pleaded not guilty to aggravated arson in an explosion that destroyed the house next door to him and damaged more than 50 homes.

Authorities in Southern Ohio are increasingly frustrated with an illegal prescription drug trade that is killing more people every year.

Planes were grounded, trains stood still and Greyhound buses weren't rolling in the Mid-Atlantic region on Sunday, leaving stranded travelers wondering when they'll be able to escape the icy, gray mess created by a major snowstorm.

Law-enforcement officials in central Ohio have made three arrests in the past two weeks by secretly attaching GPS devices to suspects' cars and tracking their movements.

It could be tomorrow. It could be in 300 years. At some point, the plates far beneath the earth will start to shift 600 miles southwest of here.

A proposed constitutional amendment that would require minimum standards for housing Ohio farm animals has passed a preliminary hurdle.

A southwest Ohio teacher says she and her husband owe their lives to police and co-workers who became concerned when she didn't show up for work.

An Ohio fire department says the smell of decaying radishes is prompting calls from residents worried about a possible gas leak.

A former Ohio congressman convicted of corruption is acknowledging business groups appear uninterested in his plan to pitch an Indian gambling casino in Youngstown.

A jury in Cleveland has reached "not guilty" verdicts on all 18 counts in the trial of federal drug agent Lee Lucas, of Lakewood.

A man who lived next door has been arrested in a house explosion and fire in Cleveland that caused widespread damage.

COLUMBUS, Ohio It was late in the evening Tuesday when legislative leaders hammered out a compromise agreement to continue the Ohio Third Frontier Program at $700 million over four years.