By MARK GILLISPIE Associated Press CLEVELAND (AP) — A year after Joan Caleodis became the first person in Ohio to purchase state-sanctioned medical marijuana, she said she remains mostly satisfied wit…
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Bill would make driver cellphone use enough for traffic stop
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Using a cellphone while driving would be reason enough to pull someone over under a bill introduced Tuesday at the Ohio Statehouse. State Rep. Mary Lightbody, a Democrat from Wes…
Teen missing for weeks found dead in vacant home’s chimney
By JOHN SEEWER Associated Press TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — A three-week-long search for a missing Ohio teenager who was last seen walking to school ended after authorities announced Tuesday they found his bo…
Safety ambassadors offer helping hand to those in need
By ERIC LAGATTA The Columbus Dispatch COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The man and woman standing outside the Downtown YMCA seem to see Rich Northup before he sees them. It’s just after 6 a.m. and still dark on …
Opioid-dependent kids’ guardians seek to form class in suit
By MARK GILLISPIE Associated Press CLEVELAND (AP) — Guardians caring for hundreds of thousands of children born dependent on opioids since 2000 should be grouped together as part of the class action l…
Report questions expanded Ohio inmate electronic monitoring
By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — There’s limited evidence that expanding the electronic monitoring of inmates in Ohio would reduce the rates at which ex-offenders c…
Report: Thousands of Ohio children lost health insurance
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine asked the state’s Medicaid official to look into what can be done in response to the thousands of children who have lost health insurance in recent ye…
House fire investigation points to double homicide, suicide
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The deaths of three people found after an explosion and house fire in Ohio appear to be a suicide and double homicide, police said. The preliminary investigation Thursday showed …
Home falls down sandy bluff along Lake Michigan shoreline
WHITE RIVER TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — A small home along the Lake Michigan shoreline in Michigan fell down a sandy bluff in an area plagued by erosion. Muskegon County officials had been monitoring the c…
“Crawdads” flies off Cincinnati-area library shelves
CINCINNATI (AP) — Delia Owens’ “Where the Crawdads Sing,” the best-selling novel about a young girl’s life in a North Carolina coastal marsh, has proved to be popular with book…