Trial hinging on dying Ohio man's blinks begins
Written by LISA CORNWELL,Associated Press
CINCINNATI (AP) — Jury selection began Monday in the trial of an Ohio man charged with murder in the shooting of a man authorities said identified his assailant by blinking his eyes while paralyzed and hooked up to a ventilator.
Authorities: Student shoots self in classroom
Written by DAN SEWELL,Associated Press
CINCINNATI (AP) — An honors student at an all-male Catholic high school tried to commit suicide in his first-period classroom Monday, police said, critically wounding himself with a gunshot and sending other students scrambling for cover.
Ohio bill would put open-container areas in cities
Written by AMANDA LEE MYERS,Associated Press
CINCINNATI (AP) — In the vein of the Las Vegas Strip and the streets of New Orleans, two Ohio lawmakers want the state's biggest cities to have entertainment districts where revelers can take their alcoholic drinks outdoors.
Kasich pick beats rival in bid for Ohio GOP chair
Written by JULIE CARR SMYTH,Associated Press
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Gov. John Kasich's pick to lead the Ohio Republican Party was elected Friday over a conservative challenger who warned party leaders they are dangerously out of touch with the party's grassroots base.
Ohio sees record high overdose deaths in 2011
Written by ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS,AP Legal Affairs Writer
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohioans are dying from drug overdoses at record-high rates, the state Department of Health said Friday as it released 2011 figures that place the blame on prescription painkillers and also show a worsening heroin problem.
Road dedication honors OH Marine killed in Iraq
Written by AP
CINCINNATI (AP) — Dedication of a portion of a highway in southwest Ohio is honoring a U.S. Marine from Ohio who was killed in Iraq in 2005.
'CHiPs' actor Estrada in Fairborn for motorcycle ride
Written by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
FAIRBORN, Ohio (AP) — An actor who starred as one of two California highway officers in the hit 1970s TV series "CHiPs" will be cruising through Ohio on Saturday.
OSHA: Ohio plant could have prevented worker death
Written by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NORTH JACKSON, Ohio (AP) — A northeastern Ohio aluminum plant was cited with eight safety violations following the death of a worker who was crushed by a hot metal rack stacked with heavy aluminum, a federal safety agency said Thursday.