COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio lawmaker who proposed legislation extending insurance coverage to a procedure considered medically impossible as a way of fighting abortion worked closely on the bill wit…
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Adoptee’s birth certificate reveals he knows birth father
By MICHAEL K. McINTYRE The Plain Dealer CLEVELAND (AP) — Kevin Butler always knew he was adopted. His dad, Dennis, would tell him, “Look at all those other kids. They’re so unlucky. Their parents had …
University of Kentucky law school alum, wife give $20M
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — A University of Kentucky College of Law alumnus and his wife pledged $20 million to fund an endowment and a nonendowed gift for the school, which will officially be renamed for h…
US Catholic priests describe turmoil amid sex abuse crisis
DAVID CRARY AP National Writer CHICOPEE, Mass. (AP) — More than a century ago, waves of Catholic immigrants from Ireland, Poland and Quebec settled in Chicopee and other western Massachusetts mill tow…
Ohio program builds trust, friendships between police, teens
By ALISSA WIDMAN NEESE The Columbus Dispatch COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — When Akie Benjamin saw police officers gathered in his school’s library, he assumed that he was in trouble or that something dangerou…
Ohio counties prodded to complete election security updates
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio’s elections chief expressed confidence Friday that the perennial swing state will have adequate safeguards against cyberattacks in place before the 2020 presidential e…
Firefighters want more staff, faster response after death
Firefighters and their families asked an Ohio city council for more staff members to improve emergency response times. When Hamilton firefighter Patrick Wolterman was killed in a 2015 arson blaze, it …
A locker, a chirp: How tiny clues help solve child sex cases
By COLLEEN LONG Associated Press FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — It was the odd-looking locker handles that caught their eye. Investigators spent hours poring over graphic images of little boys changing in and ou…
Abortion bill suggests doctors reimplant ectopic pregnancies
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio proposal aimed at outlawing abortions would present some doctors with the choice between facing potential criminal prosecution or attempting a procedure considered medica…
Black victims underrepresented in named violent crime laws
By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press CLEVELAND (AP) — The slayings of Reagan Tokes and Alianna DeFreeze had much in common. Both were abducted, raped and killed in Ohio in 2017. Tokes was a 21-year-ol…