By MARK GILLISPIE Associated Press CLEVELAND (AP) — The twin sister of slain Cleveland police officer Shane Bartek said at his funeral Tuesday she knew as children her brother wanted to be a cop as they played with their first set of walkie talkies using call signs "Peanut Butter" and ...
AURORA, Ind. (AP) — DNA testing has confirmed that a bone found in an SUV pulled last fall from the Ohio River in Indiana is from an Ohio woman who vanished in 2002 along with her two young children, authorities said Tuesday. Dearborn County Coroner Cameron McCreary learned Friday the bone ...
By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Governors took sweeping actions during earlier surges of the COVID-19 pandemic. Many closed schools and ordered businesses shut down. They issued mask mandates, vaccine requirements and even quarantines in some places for people who ...
By MARK GILLISPIE Associated Press CLEVELAND (AP) — Police in Ohio released body camera footage Thursday showing an officer firing multiple rounds through a wooden privacy fence without warning at someone shooting gunfire into the air on the other side. James Williams, 46, of Canton, was ...
By MICHAEL MELIA Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Principals, superintendents and counselors are filling in as substitutes in classrooms as the surge in coronavirus infections further strains schools that already had been struggling with staffing shortages. In Cincinnati, dozens of ...
By PETER SMITH Associated Press An unidentified person paid a ransom that freed three missionaries kidnapped by a gang in Haiti under an agreement that was supposed to have led to the release of all 15 remaining captives early last month, workers for their Ohio-based organization have ...
By JOHN SEEWER Associated Press TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — Two Ohio Democrats seeking their party's nomination in bids to end Republican dominance of the governor's office announced their running mates Wednesday, one a veteran state lawmaker and the other a community leader who's largely unknown ...
By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer PITTSFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — The competition among U.S. automakers for a still-small pool of consumers seeking electric vehicles is quickly intensifying. General Motors, normally the top-selling U.S. automaker, officially unveiled the Chevrolet Silverado ...
LIMA, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio man who pleaded guilty to sexually battery after being accused of abusing six boys has been sentenced to a minimum of 94 years in prison. Allen County Judge Jeffery Reed called the case against Jeremy Kindle of Elida an "abomination" while sentencing him on ...
ESCANABA, Mich. (AP) — A paper mill in Michigan's Upper Peninsula has agreed to pay nearly $250,000 to settle an investigation of a fish kill in the Escanaba River, state regulators said. A "catastrophic pipe failure" at the Verso Corp. site in Escanaba resulted in a discharge of partially ...