Ohio

EXCLUSIVE: Cleveland businessman and 2018 Ohio Republican Senate candidate Mike Gibbons on Tuesday launched a second bid for the Senate. “I’m a businessman, not a politician. I’m blunt, plain spoken, and I tell it like it is,” Gibbons emphasized in a video shared nationally first with Fox News as he announced his candidacy in the 2022 race to succeed retiring […]

A 66-year-old Ohio woman who lost her home to foreclosure allegedly turned around and burned it down a day after a health care company purchased it, according to local reports. Janet Caplinger lost her home in December, more than a year after foreclosure proceedings began in September 2019, according to county records. Then she allegedly […]

At least one person was unaccounted for and eight others were injured early Thursday following an explosion and massive two-alarm fire at a paint factory in Columbus, Ohio, according to reports. The fire prompted area evacuations and sent firefighters scrambling to get the blaze under control, officials said. Those injured included five people who were taken […]

An aide to Democratic Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson has been accused of multiple sex assaults and rapes over a years-long span that began when the alleged victim was still a minor. Alexander Lackey, 35, allegedly raped the victim on multiple occasions between October 2018, when she was 17, and January 2021, when police responded to […]

TOLEDO, Ohio — The alcohol-related hazing death last month of a Bowling Green State University student has been ruled an accident. The Lucas County Coroner’s office announced Tuesday that Stone Foltz, 20, died from alcohol poisoning following the hazing incident. Authorities have said members of the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity gave pledges bottles of alcohol on March 4 […]

An explosion and massive two-alarm fire at a paint factory in Columbus, Ohio, prompted local evacuations and sent firefighters scrambling to get the blaze under control early Thursday, officials said. At least seven injuries were reported, according to the Columbus Division of Fire. Five people were taken to hospitals after escaping the building on their own, officials said. […]

An explosion and massive fire at a paint factory in Columbus, Ohio, had firefighters scrambling to get the blaze under control just after midnight Thursday, according to reports.  At least seven injuries were reported, according to the Columbus Division of Fire. The fire was reported at Yenkin Majestic Paint, part of the Yenkin-Majestic Paint Corp. The company […]

Ohio’s new “stand your ground” gun law, which expands circumstances where individuals are able to legally use deadly force in self-defense, goes into effect Tuesday. In January, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine, a Republican, signed a so-called “stand your ground” bill that eliminates an individual’s duty to retreat before using force. The final version of the […]

Cleveland businessman Bernie Moreno on Tuesday launched a Republican campaign for the Senate in the 2022 race to succeed retiring GOP Sen. Rob Portman in Ohio. In a national announcement shared first with Fox News, Moreno declared, “I’m running to represent the people of Ohio in the United States Senate to protect the American dream for the next generation.” […]

Bowling Green State University in Ohio has charged a fraternity with six violations of the school’s code of conduct following the alleged hazing death of a sophomore last month. University officials announced Friday that they met with national leaders of Pi Kappa Alpha and special counsel David DeVillers, a former U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Ohio, “to […]