By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio’s capital city has agreed to pay $5.75 million to people injured during last year’s racial injustice and police brutalit…
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Ohio redistricting fight: Was favoring one party allowed?
By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Legal arguments for and against Ohio’s new maps of state legislative districts centered Wednesday on whether it was okay for a powerful…
AP: US military explosives vanish, emerge in civilian world
By KRISTIN M. HALL, JUSTIN PRITCHARD and JAMES LAPORTA Associated Press The Marine Corps demolition specialist was worried — about America, and about the civil war he feared would follow the president…
Ohio police shootings in recent years led to reckoning
By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A series of shootings by white Ohio police officers of Black adults and children in recent years and subsequent racial injustice protests…
Murder charge for Ohio deputy in Casey Goodson Jr. shooting
By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The Ohio sheriff’s deputy who shot Casey Goodson Jr. in the back five times was charged with murder Thursday, as Goodson’s family also fi…
FBI: Dayton mass shooter fantasized about killing for years
By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS and JOHN SEEWER Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The man who gunned down nine people in Dayton, Ohio, two years ago had fantasized about mass shootings, serial killings a…
Jury holds pharmacies responsible for role in opioid crisis
By JOHN SEEWER Associated Press CLEVELAND (AP) — CVS, Walgreens and Walmart pharmacies recklessly distributed massive amounts of pain pills in two Ohio counties, a federal jury said Tuesday in a verdi…
Jury awards $26M in damages for Unite the Right violence
By DENISE LAVOIE AP Legal Affairs Writer CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — A jury ordered 17 white nationalist leaders and organizations to pay more than $26 million in damages Tuesday over the violence tha…
How Ohio’s new US congressional map sprinted into law
By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Congressional redistricting is the arcane but consequential process of redrawing U.S. House districts every 10 years, which often goes unnoti…
Coal-fired power plants to close after new wastewater rule
By MICHAEL RUBINKAM Associated Press Climate change isn’t what’s driving some U.S. coal-fired power plants to shut down. It’s the expense of stricter pollution controls on their wastewater. Doze…