Mike Foley

The state fire marshal encourages Ohioans to take fire safety precautions when decorating for the holidays.

Ohio State plans to honor the 2002 national championship team at this year's Michigan game. 

Saturday's game between Ohio State and Michigan at Ohio Stadium marks the 109th meeting between the two schools, and the first with Meyer and Hoke as head coaches.

A long-haul trucker from West Texas has pleaded guilty in a 2011 multi-state drug-transporting ring with ties to central Ohio.

As a kid attending Ohio State football games with his dad, Jon Lampley recalls being as fascinated by the university's band as he was the game.

Education leaders in Ohio have agreed on a plan to do away with the current Ohio Graduation Test that every student must pass in order to get a high school diploma. But in an interview with Ohio Public Radio’s Jo Ingles, the Ohio Department of Education’s John Charlton explains that test will be replaced with others as requested by Ohio lawmakers.

Next year, Columbus residents will pay $5 more on average for their water and sewer service.

Congresswoman Marcia Fudge of Ohio has been elected to lead the Congressional Black Caucus.

Authorities say 24 boys have been identified on locker room videotapes made by a high school coach charged in northeast Ohio.

Health officials in Ohio's capital city say they're investigating more than 770 cases of a bacterial illness that primarily affects young children, and they're urging parents to take precautions to help stop the outbreak.

Three companies - including one in central Ohio - have agreed in a federal settlement to pay back wages to hundreds of international students for summer jobs they held at a Hershey candy company facility in Pennsylvania.

Ohio has begun issuing its first permits for deep injection of chemically-laced wastewater from oil and gas drilling since a New Year's Eve quake in Youngstown prompted an unofficial statewide moratorium on new wells.

A panel studying ways to boost Ohio's college graduation rate says tuition should be raised on students to out-of-state amounts, and the state should withhold money from those students' institutions if they're taking years and years to graduate.

Citing organized and persistent interference with the attendance data investigation, the state auditor's office says it's likely that criminal charges will be brought against some Columbus school district employees.

State forestry officials are seeking input on an area forestry plan from woodland owners in the Hocking Hills area of southeast Ohio.

A condemned Ohio killer has arrived at the state death house the day ahead of his scheduled execution for stabbing an Akron woman to death in 1997.

An Ohio-based oil refiner is donating money and food to people recovering from Sandy.

An Ohio teenager has been sentenced to life in prison in a deadly plot to lure men desperate for work with phony Craigslist job offers.

Authorities say an Ohio inmate has died after a fight with his cellmate. The State Highway Patrol says staff at the Mansfield Correctional Institution found 62-year-old Robert Parr in his cell shortly after 10 p.m. last night.

Ohio officials say the voter turnout for Tuesday's election was just more than 68 percent.