COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Police shot and killed a teenage girl Tuesday afternoon in Columbus just as the verdict was being announced in the trial for the killing of George Floyd. The Ohio Bureau of Crimi…
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Billions spent on coronavirus fight, but what happens next?
By MICHELLE R. SMITH, LAUREN WEBER and HANNAH RECHT Associated Press and KHN Congress has poured tens of billions of dollars into state and local public health departments in response to the coronavir…
Ohio capital city leaders call for protests to stay peaceful
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Politicians, religious leaders and community activists in Ohio’s capital city called Monday for protests to remain peaceful as a verdict nears in the trial in the death of …
Family asks feds to reopen case on Tamir Rice police killing
By COLLEEN LONG Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — The family of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, who was shot and killed by Cleveland police in 2014, asked the Justice Department on Friday to reopen the case int…
Officer whose pat-down missed gun cautioned against rushing
By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS and FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press/Report for America COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio officer who missed a gun during a pat-down of Miles Jackson — later leading to Jackson bein…
Fatal police shooting at hospital caught on officer bodycams
By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Officers conducting a routine pat-down of a man in a hospital emergency room found a gun in his waistband, spurring a struggle over the w…
Ohio college vaccination effort hits hurdle with J&J pause
By KANTELE FRANKO and FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio’s governor and health officials remained optimistic about the state’s coronavirus vaccine distribution plan…
Ohio court hears arguments over ancient earthworks access
By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A debate over public access to a set of ancient ceremonial and burial earthworks is before the Ohio Supreme Court in a case pitting the s…
Dayton police chief, who responded to mass shooting, retires
DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — Dayton police chief Richard Biehl, who led the department’s response to a mass shooting in the city’s entertainment district in 2019, is retiring. Biehl said in a state…
Some GOP-led states target abortions done through medication
By DAVID CRARY and IRIS SAMUELS Associated Press About 40% of all abortions in the U.S. are now done through medication — rather than surgery — and that option has become all the more pivotal during t…