Columbus Man Gets 26 to 31½ Years for Fatal Franklinton Bus Stop Shooting
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Joshua Bays, 46, pleaded guilty Oct. 7 and was sentenced to 26 to 31½ years in prison for the fatal shooting of Thomas Smith, 56, at a…
Oklo, Executives Gift OSU $3M to Launch Nuclear Engineering Major
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Oklo Inc., the California-based nuclear technology company building a 1.2-gigawatt power campus in Piketon, is giving Ohio State University $3 million to launch an undergraduate nuclear engineering…
Dayton Clergy Push 11-Member Board to Steer Public Hospital Plan
DAYTON, Ohio — Members of the Clergy Community Coalition are urging Mayor Shenise Turner-Sloss to create an 11-member board to guide plans for a public hospital, one year after Dayton…
Ohio House Supermajority on the Line in Key Central Ohio Races
COLUMBUS, Ohio — For the first time in more than a decade, the Republican supermajority in the Ohio House of Representatives is at risk in the Nov. 3 midterm election,…
BLINK Festival Takes Over Cincinnati as Hurricane Remnants Threaten Weekend
BLINK, the massive art, light, and projection-mapping festival, takes over downtown Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky from October 8 through 11 — just as the remnants of Hurricane Isaias threaten to…
Akron, EPA Near Deal to Scrap $300M Final Step of Sewer Overhaul
Akron is close to a deal with federal and state environmental regulators that would cancel the most expensive remaining piece of its long-running sewer overhaul: a treatment facility projected to…
JD Vance to Rally in Lima Friday as Ohio Senate Race Tightens
Vice President JD Vance returns to his home state Friday for a rally in Lima, the latest sign that national Republicans are pouring energy into Ohio’s tight midterm races. Vance…
Sirens Strip Club Owners Jailed Over $240K in Unpaid Settlement Debt
The owners of a Columbus strip club that drew national attention after adult film actress Stormy Daniels’ 2018 arrest there were taken into federal custody Thursday and ordered held until…
Three Indicted in $20M Scheme That Sank Eastern Gateway Community College
STEUBENVILLE, Ohio — Ohio Auditor of State Keith Faber announced Oct. 8 that three people, including the last president of Eastern Gateway Community College, have been indicted on felony charges…
Four More Students Named as Victims in Aiken Assistant Principal Case
CINCINNATI — An assistant principal at Aiken New Tech High School now faces eight additional sexual battery and grooming charges tied to four more teenage victims, according to Oct. 8…