(AP) — COLUMBUS, Ohio - An Ohio police officer fired for off-duty speeding on his motorcycle at nearly 150 mph has gotten his job back. Deputy Chief Kenneth Bell of the Gahanna (guh-HA’-nuh) department in suburban Columbus says officer Christopher read more..

Ohio State University says a background check on a janitor who shot two supervisors didn’t reveal a criminal record, even though he had spent five years in prison. The university released a background check Wednesday compiled last fall on Nathaniel read more..

COLUMBUS, Ohio — An Ohio State University janitor who was about to lose his job walked into a maintenance building for his early morning shift Tuesday and shot two supervisors, killing one of them and fatally shooting himself. No students were hurt read more..

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Officials say an Ohio death row inmate was attempting suicide when he overdosed on pills two days before his scheduled execution. Spokeswoman Julie Walburn said Wednesday that the determination was made by mental health staff in read more..

WASHINGTON - Congressman Bob Latta made the following statement regarding updated Ohio unemployment county numbers released today by the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services. Of the 16 counties within Ohio’s Fifth Congressional District, five read more..

AURORA — Ohio Street will be closed for most of Friday at Fenton Street on the city’s East Side. The roadway is being closed between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. for the installation of underground utility improvements. The work is planned to relieve sewer read more..

Officials are keeping a close watch on creeks and streams with rain heading our way. WHEELING — The National Weather Service has issued a flood watch from Thursday evening through Sunday evening for small streams and creeks in the viewing area. The read more..

Lawrence Reynolds Jr. COLUMBUS, Ohio — Officials say an Ohio inmate who intentionally overdosed on pills hours before his scheduled execution has returned to prison and is on suicide watch. Prisons spokeswoman Julie Walburn says 43-year-old read more..

CLEVELAND — An Ohio judge has handed down a life prison term for a doctor convicted of killing his wife with cyanide. Relatives of the victim sobbed and held each other as 41-year-old Yazeed Essa (EE’-suh) was sentenced Tuesday in Cleveland. He read more..

View full size Charles Dharapak / Associated Press President Barack Obama will be in Northeast Ohio on Monday. Updated at 1:40 a.m. Wednesday WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama plans to bring the fevered lobbying campaign for health reform to read more..

COLUMBUS — Justices with the Ohio Supreme Court listened to arguments from the Zanesville law director and a Columbus defense attorney surrounding whether court documents should be file-stamped. The case could affect tens of thousands of cases from read more..

View full size Gus Chan / The Plain Dealer Johanna Orozco of Cleveland, who survived a violent attack by a former boyfriend, says she feels relieved that teens will have an opportunity that she did not thanks to a bill passed by the Ohio legislature read more..

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Police on Tuesday said that a disgruntled Ohio State custodial worker shot two employees before turning the gun on himself. Nathaniel Brown, a custodial worker, entered a maintenance building located on Tuttle Park Place, just east read more..

COLUMBUS, Ohio — An Ohio State University janitor who was about to lose his job walked into a maintenance building for his early-morning shift Tuesday and shot two supervisors, killing one of them and fatally shooting himself. No students were hurt read more..

is improving at a Youngstown hospital after he was found unconscious in his death row cell Sunday night at the Ohio State Penitentiary in Youngstown. He was under surveillance that’s routine for inmates approaching their hour of execution. read more..

COLUMBUS, OHIO - A new Ohio State University custodial employee who received a bad job evaluation shot two co-workers in a campus maintenance building, killing one of them, and then fatally shot himself, officials said Tuesday. Nathaniel Brown, who read more..

DAYTON, Ohio — Four displaced autoworkers attended the Academy Awards to support a documentary that chronicled the closing of a General Motors sport utility vehicle plant in Ohio. HBO’s “The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant” was nominated for best read more..

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Authorities say a shooting on the Ohio State University campus has left one person dead and injured two others. According to an OSU police dispatcher, the three people were shot inside a maintenance building near the campus read more..

CLEVELAND (AP) — An Ohio doctor convicted of aggravated murder in his wife’s cyanide-poisoning death faces up to life in prison when he is sentenced. Forty-one-year-old Yazeed Essa (EE’-suh) was convicted last week of lacing his wife’s calcium read more..

Park-Ohio Holdings Corp. (Nasdaq: PKOH) has reported a small fourth-quarter profit compared to a big year-earlier loss, and has announced a revised credit agreement. The diversified manufacturing and logistics company said its net income in the read more..

Armon Bassett scored 25 points, including the layup that sent the game into overtime, and Ohio defeated Ball State 85-77 in the first round of the Mid-American Conference tournament Sunday. The Bobcats (18-14), who will face top-seeded Kent State on Thursday in the quarterfinals, rallied from a six-point deficit in the final five minutes of regulation to force OT. read more..

Jantel Lavender made two free throws with 1.9 seconds left Sunday, giving No. 10 Ohio State a 66-64 victory over third-seeded Iowa in the Big Ten title game. read more..

Ohio State beat Iowa 66-64 in the Big Ten Conference Tournament final this afternoon. read more..

Associated Press - March 7, 2010 6:44 PM ET INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Jantel Lavender made two free throws with 1.9 seconds left Sunday, giving No. 10 Ohio State a 66-64 victory over third-seeded… read more..

Ohio’s unemployment rate held steady in January at 10.8percent, the same rate as the previous three months - a pattern that experts say indicates the job market is stabilizing, though still weak. read more..

WILLARD: Reforms needed on Ohio Supreme Court read more..

Nicole Jamen led five Lady Govs in double figures with 19 points, and Austin Peay beat Eastern Illinois 69-60 for the Ohio Valley Conference tournament championship Saturday and a second straight automatic berth in the NCAA tournament. read more..

COLUMBUS — Ohio will try again Tuesday to execute a Cleveland-area man who strangled his 67-year-old neighbor in her home in 1994 to get money for his alcohol addiction. read more..

MARYSVILLE, Ohio — Federal and local authorities continue to investigate the Ohio crash of a small plane that killed the two Indiana men flying to Pennsylvania. read more..

Top-seeded Ohio State got off to a shaky start Friday night in opening its portion of the Big Ten women’s basketball tournament at Conseco Fieldhouse, but it settled down enough to advance, which is the key at this point in the season. read more..

A plane traveling to Pennsylvania from Indiana crashed and killed two people in Ohio Friday. read more..

Ohio is among 16 finalists named Wednesday for U.S. Department of Education “Race to the Top” school reform stimulus funds. Highlights of the state’s application: — Requests nearly $410 million to be split evenly between the state and local boards read more..

COLUMBUS, Ohio—An Ohio man who bludgeoned his girlfriend to death with a hammer before dismembering her and scattering her body parts around the apartment complex where they lived has been sentenced to 15 years to life in prison. Robert Knight was read more..

According to the Ohio Business Development Coalition , the nonprofit organization that markets the state for capital investment, the Governor’s Cup Award further demonstrates that Ohio ’s purposeful redesign of its business climate is making the read more..

Opening statements are set to begin in the Ohio trial of a man accused of killing two teenage girls and two women. The trial of 41-year-old Anthony Kirkland gets under way in court on Thursday, a day after the jurors in Cincinnati visited the areas read more..

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Minutes after Ohio State’s 72-53 win at Illinois on Feb. 14, Ohio State guard Evan Turner put the finishing touches on the most decisive loss suffered by the Illini this season. “You all witnessed the ‘Valentine’s Day read more..