Ohio News

In this photo taken Friday, Feb. 10, 2012, a memorial is made on the steps of the burned-out house where 9 people died in 2005 in Cleveland.

The March 6 primary for the 24th District Ohio Senate seat will be a quiet one, with no opposition on the ballot.

Another jailhouse informant will be added to the mix if a federal court retrial goes forward in the arson deaths of nine in Cleveland, creating a snitch versus snitch scenario for skeptical jurors.

President Obama's reelection campaing has identified a number of strategies for getting to the 270 electoral votes he'll need to win a second term.

Republican officials in southern Ohio say GOP presidential contender Rick Santorum will be at two county party dinners this Friday.

The annual cleanup of the former Ohio prison where "The Shawshank Redemption" was filmed has drawn dozens of people, including some in search of paranormal activity.

Members of Hamilton police Chief Neil Ferdelman's family have held public safety jobs serving their southwestern Ohio city for 87 years straight, but that run will end with his retirement next month.

Mentor high school QB Mitch Trubisky, who scorched enemy defenses this past season, has at least one option that will excited fans of the Scarlet and Gray.

Gov. John Kasich is right to call for an increase in Ohio's severance tax on oil and gas and a new impact fee to help localities deal with the consequences -- in road wear, as just one example -- of expanded drilling and "fracking." But it's not enough.

The status of a dozen Ohio executions scheduled over the next two years was uncertain following the U.S. Supreme Court's decision Wednesday to allow a temporary delay in capital punishment to stay in place.

The pastor of an Ohio church that faced two fires in one month says members have discovered a sense of resilience visible to any guest who pulled up a plastic chair for the makeshift Sunday service in a school gym.

A weekly roundup of new places to visit, coming events and special deals and packages, all within a day's drive.

During a conference call on Friday, Komen Northeast Ohio leaders said the 2012 Cleveland Komen Race for the Cure, to be held Sept.

Ohio Supreme Court Justice Paul Pfeifer has been traveling Ohio campaigning for the repeal of Ohio's death penalty.

CLEVELAND &#8212 A mentally disabled former drug dealer convicted in the fire deaths of nine people, including eight children at a birthday sleepover, on Wednesday won a new trial from a judge who said jailhouse snitches and other witnesses were unreliable.

That shocking statistic from land bank guru Jim Rokakis, now director of the Thriving Communities Institute , is a polite way of saying there is no market for homes in Cleveland.

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Ohio petroleum producers are pushing back against a call by the state attorney general to increase environmental penalties and chemical reporting requirements on the drilling industry.

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A fight is brewing in the U.S. South between Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich, and Mitt Romney's priority right now is winning Arizona and Michigan while keeping an eye on Ohio.

Sen. Rob Portman and other members of the Ohio delegation said they would push back against proposed defense cuts that could cost 1,000 jobs in the state and dramatically trim operations at Ohio's Air National Guard bases.