The Second Lady of the United States, Dr. Jill Biden, and Labor Secretary Hilda Solis are in Ohio today to promote the role of comunity colleges in workforce development. The Obama administration...

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- A Columbus woman is attacked by an unknown assailant as she leaves a local bar. At about 11:30 p.m. Tuesday, 32-year-old Carmalita Geter was leaving the Klub 57 when she was...

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- A prosecutor has requested an execution date for a condemned Ohio man who came close to dying by injection a decade ago before courts intervened. Cuyahoga County Prosecutor William...

TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) -- Police say a 5-year-old boy in Ohio brought an unloaded handgun to the day care he attends after finding it in the grass at his apartment...

The Rev. Patricia Anderson Cook of Mt. Healthy United Methodist Church in suburban Cincinnati plans to provide the service for people of all faiths and services beginning around 5...

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Deshaun Thomas scored 19 points and No. 8 Ohio State regained its shooting touch, rolling over Illinois 83-67 on Tuesday night to remain in the thick of the Big Ten race. Ohio...

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- San Jose couldn't overcome its slow start on Tuesday night. Jeff Carter had three goals - two on the power play during Columbus' four-goal first period - and the...

Ohio County Schools bus lost control on Wednesday, shearing a utility pole in half and heavily damaging a vehicle parked next to a home. One student was taken to a hospital with minor injuries, and...

Ohio native Brady Quinn is apologizing to Tim Tebow for unflattering comments Quinn made about the Denver Broncos' starting quarterback in a GQ article. The article on Tebowmania was written...

Charlene Greene has a spirted laugh that you can hear while she shows people around the St. Stephen's Community Center. "We are a multi-faceted resource for people in our community....

Dr. Jill Biden and U.S. Labor Secretary Hilda Solis will make several stops in the Buckeye state on Wednesday as part of a three-day regional bus tour to highlight the role of community colleges in...

Pit bulls in Ohio will no longer be labeled as "vicious" dogs under a bill that's been signed into law by Gov. John Kasich. The governor on Tuesday signed the bill that changes a...

An Ohio woman who compared animal-welfare work to the liberation of World War II concentration camps has been charged with soliciting a hit man to fatally shoot or slit the throat of a random...

Tim Williams is the senior Vice President of McGraw-Hill Education. He said on Tuesday that Ohio is key when it comes to location, which is why the company has three distribution centers here. ...

Clouds are going to stay in the forecast for Wednesday. We are starting the day dry, but winds from the south will return. This will pump in even warmer air and some moisture. The rain chance...

School data isn't too difficult to find in many cases. The tricky part is often deciding which data suits the situation best. That issue came up in...

Cleveland, OH - Last night (February 21, 2012) marked the return of the classic rock band Foreigner to the Northcoast. They did not let anyone down in attendance. The band, armed with original member...

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TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) -- Police say a 5-year-old boy in Ohio brought an unloaded handgun to the day care he attends after finding it in the grass at his apartment complex. Police say the child...

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Franklin County is buying and demolishing 15 houses near a ditch in Franklin Township that floods after heavy rains. The county is spending $2 million in federal and local money to buy and tear...

Kasey L. Klein, left, and husband Richard H. Klein Jr. pitched their tent close to the Muskingum River. A Zanesville couple said they lost everything this summer when their children drowned in the ...

Meredith Martin moved her Sunbear Studio & Gallery to Alexandria in November after working for almost two years to renovate its more-than-century-old building on Main Street. She credited...

Nearly $26,000 -- that's the cost of doing the public's business in private. A Franklin County judge has ruled that the Ohio Board of Embalmers and Funeral Directors must pay a funeral...

Ohio’s top statewide public school organizations did not mince words this week, telling the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio that the controversial new American Electric Power rate plan...

LANCASTER, Ohio -- Authorities continued the search for a Fairfield County jail inmate who escaped on Monday night by scaling a fence topped with razor wire. Jeremiah C. Searles, 31, escaped from...

Washington's inability to figure out a way to pay for the nation's roadwork probably will result in a three- or four-year temporary fix, U.S. Rep. Steve Stivers said yesterday. The Upper...

Ohio’s top statewide public school organizations did not mince words this week, telling the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio that the controversial new American Electric Power rate plan...

Members of a Columbus City Schools committee said they will recommend by early June whether the district should pursue a November levy and whether to include a bond issue. The 14-member group of...

A Columbus man who pleaded guilty to sexual battery in 1995 does not have to tell authorities his whereabouts because he left prison before sex-offender registration laws took effect, the Ohio ...

For more on Reynoldsburg's proposed partnership with Columbus State Community College, watch Dispatch education reporter Charlie Boss on WBNS-10TV between 6:30 and 7 this morning, or go...

A Franklin County grand jury did not indict a Columbus police officer who shot and killed an armed man on the South Side last summer. The officer was cleared on Thursday after a grand jury reviewed...

Springfield ranks as having the fifth-highest percentage of females in the state of Ohio, with Dayton having the seventh-most females by percentage of population, according to a report by...

Mike DeWine gave his OK to a ballot initiative that, if approved, would instruct the state to take on $13 billion in debt over 10 years to pay for green energy improvements and support research in...

A Quick Tour of Hoperatives (A Bi-Monthly Post) Since we’ve picked up some new readers, we thought it was time to run this quick tour of Hoperatives again. Step this way please… On...

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) -- Federal regulators said Tuesday that they've approved new suppliers for two crucial cancer drugs, easing critical shortages - at least for the time being - that have left...

LANCASTER, Ohio (AP) -- Authorities are continuing their search for an inmate who apparently escaped from a jail facility in southeast Ohio after putting socks on his hands to protect himself as he...