Ohio News

It's a presidential election year, and Ohio residents are running out of time to register to vote in the March 6 primary.

Police say six people were shot in a dispute outside a northwest Ohio bar hours after the Super Bowl ended.

The Plain Dealer reports the 88-acre Cleveland Lakefront Nature Preserve sits on a bank of earth that juts into Lake Erie.

Ohio GOP Chairman Kevin DeWine retained his job last Friday when backers of Gov.

Over two decades in the U.S. House of Representatives, GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich served two terms as House Speaker and engineered the landslide victory that brought his party to power for the first time in 40 years.

A proposal to eradicate a tree-killing beetle in southwest Ohio by cutting down thousands of trees, including those that may not be infested, has concerned property owners fighting for methods that would preserve healthy trees.

As he charts a possible course to the Republican nomination, aides say Gingrich will paint frontrunner Mitt Romney as the candidate of the PGA golf tour while the former House speaker pursues the blue collar mantle of Dale Earnhardt.

OTTOVILLE, Ohio - The State Highway Patrol says a 17-year-old girl from northwest Ohio died after she swerved off a county road toward a pond and her vehicle became submerged.

The Blade in Toledo reports the great-grandson of a Union soldier is suing a cousin, alleging she won't give other relatives access to the pair of Civil War-era medals and a key to a Confederate prison cell.

Gov. John Kasich will deliver his second State of the State address at 1 p.m. Tuesday at Wells Academy in Steubenville.

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A sheriff in southwest Ohio says a fire has left a woman dead, and investigators are eyeing an "alternate heat source" as the possible cause.

Two competitive Ohio medical research institutions are teaming up at a new lab to study head and spinal injuries that occur in sports and combat.

Newly detailed Air Force plans to cut personnel and aircraft as part of a larger downsizing are expected to affect several Ohio locations.

COLUMBUS, Ohio - It's been more than a year since Ohioans chose Thomas Edison in a vote for a new statue to represent the state in the U.S. Capitol's Statuary Hall, but the inventor still needs the required approval from lawmakers.

An Ohio representative campaigning to stay in Congress is offering his support for locked-out tire company workers in northwestern Ohio.

A Republican who served as a U.S. senator and governor is offering support to 1 of 2 veteran Democrats in the primary battle for a reworked northern Ohio congressional district.

Republican presidential campaigning in Ohio is starting to warm up after months of little activity, while polls have indicated a volatile race.

Two gay men who say they were punched and pinned to the ground by an off-duty police officer before being called offensive names and jailed without their trousers have sued the city and its police over what they call anti-gay bias.

A group of 16 NASA employees in Ohio are the winners of a quarter-million dollars in Tuesday's Mega Millions drawing.