Jim Letizia

Two Chillicothe women are facing animal cruelty charges.

Columbus City Council last night approved spending 2 million dollars to demolish an old municipal building at 109 North Front Street in order to construct new offices that will consolidate zoning and building services.

A gay Columbus teacher challenging her firing by Bishop Watterson High School says the local union for Catholic educators has decided not to support her complaint.

The Lawrence County man accused of stealing and crashing a fire truck on Friday died on Monday.

Honda of America is finalizing plans for a new plant in Central Ohio.

Cincinnati Police Chief James Craig is expected to announce today that he's stepping down to become police chief in his hometown of Detroit.

Researchers at an Ohio State University greenhouse in Columbus are awaiting a rare second bloom by a rainforest plant known as a "corpse flower" because of its unpleasant odor.

A Grove City woman is facing animal abuse charges after starved dogs were found at her home.

A Pickerington man says he is planning to jump again after being convicted of parachuting off a radio tower at Ohio State University last week.

Columbus police say one of two suspects in the shooting of a woman on a COTA bus last month has turned himself in.

The Cleveland Teachers Union and the School District have reached a tentative agreement on a new 3- year contract.

Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine says no DNA evidence links the man accused of imprisoning three women in a Cleveland house for a decade to other crimes through a national database.

Republican Ohio Senate President Keith Faber told a Cleveland City Club audience Monday lawmakers are open to pursuing a Medicaid bill before the end of the year.

Advocates for expanding Medicaid used the Mother's Day holiday to ask state lawmakers what their mothers would do about the issue.

An Associated Press review of records shows a favorite witness on Ohio tax and economic issues who's relied upon for his objectivity draws a hefty stipend from a conservative trust fund.

A Franklin County judge today ordered the owners of a closed East side motel to sell the blighted property or tear it down.

A former Columbus computer hacker has been sentenced to one year of house arrest and three years probation for his role in a scheme to crash video game servers worldwide in 2008.

Sweeping changes are underway at Cincinnati-based Catholic Health Partners.

Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine says DNA tests confirm 52-year-old alleged kidnapper Ariel Castro is the father of Amanda Berry's 6-year-old daughter.

Ohio motorists are paying 12 cents a gallon more for gasoline this week.