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Ohio school reopens after vandalism

1 hour 35 min ago
SALINEVILLE, Ohio (AP) -- Schools have reopened in an eastern Ohio district that canceled yesterday's classes after vandals struck an electricity transformer and 10 school uses.

Icy crash? You're on your own

2 hours 7 min ago
On slippery days, driving in central Ohio is something like being in Dodge City when Marshal Dillon is out of town. Yesterday morning's rush hour was like that.

Cincinnati phone company wants to stop distributing White Pages

2 hours 50 min ago
CINCINNATI (AP) -- Ohio regulators will consider a phone company's request to stop distributing its White Pages phone book. Cincinnati Bell says most customers rarely use the printed residential directory any longer but prefer to look up numbers on the Web.

Baby fatally injured in Near East Side crash

2 hours 59 min ago
The 1-year-old daughter of a Columbus woman died this morning after a crash on the Near East Side shortly before 9 last night.

Ohio 2nd in nation in Salmonella cases

3 hours 36 min ago
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Ohio has joined a multistate investigation to find the source of salmonella bacteria that has sickened at least 50 people in 18 counties since October.

Icy roads claim three lives in 2 Licking County crashes

3 hours 54 min ago
State Highway Patrol Lt. L.H. Roseboro and his troopers knew the wintry mess was coming and knew it would be a busy morning. But they didn't know how busy, or bad, it would become.

Police charge man in 3 Hilltop deaths

3 hours 56 min ago
Police have charged one man in an October triple homicide at a Hilltop drug house and say others were involved in the shootings.

Ohio schools rank 6th in nation

4 hours 8 min ago
Ohio has inched up to the sixth-best education system in the nation, according to an independent report being released today.

Surgery for Parkinson's found to be worth risk

4 hours 56 min ago
Jerry Spicer was well aware of the risks and plenty concerned about the prospect of brain surgery when a doctor implanted a stimulation device deep in his brain in August.

Signs of bygone times

5 hours 49 min ago
The gallery is vast -- rural towns, urban alleys, streets you drive past every day.

Teen from Athens missing

6 hours 9 min ago
ATHENS, Ohio -- Police are asking for the public's help in locating a 15-year-old boy who is thought to have run away with a registered sex offender.

Fender-bender checklist

6 hours 49 min ago
Fender-bender checklist What to do if you're in a non-injury crash and the local police department isn't responding to fender benders:

Teacher defiant, expert says

6 hours 51 min ago
MOUNT VERNON, Ohio -- An expert in employee investigations, whose report is the chief evidence against John Freshwater, said the eighth-grade science teacher refused to remove religious items from his classroom and persisted in not following the curriculum.

Bexley council might sell former tree nursery site

6 hours 52 min ago
The Bexley City Council is considering selling a 2.4-acre former tree nursery for $350,000 to an as-yet-undisclosed buyer.

Northridge boosters pay to save sports, concert

6 hours 52 min ago
JOHNSTOWN, Ohio -- An agreement between the Northridge school board and local boosters will allow students to play spring sports, perform in the spring concert and participate in other activities that were cut from the district's budget after a November levy failure.

Plan for Delaware courthouse is history

6 hours 52 min ago
DELAWARE, Ohio -- A busy workload greeted Delaware County's newest commissioners Monday at their first meeting since winning election in November.

Suspect charged in deadly shooting

6 hours 52 min ago
A South Side man has been charged in the shooting death of another man last weekend.

Savvy detective was quick with a joke

6 hours 52 min ago
MARYSVILLE, Ohio -- Jack Holton never met a joke he didn't like.

'Golden Week' revived with veto

6 hours 53 min ago
Ohioans will have just as much time to vote early, including a week when they can register and vote on the same day, thanks to one of the first vetoes issued by Ted Strickland since he became governor.

Young runner's final race is won

6 hours 53 min ago
NEWARK, Ohio -- A mother's words say it all: Today, at 4:12, Devin finished his race.