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Sessions: US prosecutors will help addiction-ravaged cities
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The Justice Department will dispatch 12 federal prosecutors to cities ravaged by addiction who will focus exclusively on investigating health care fraud and opioid scams that are fueling the nation's drug abuse epidemic, A...
Ohio State beefs up response plans after attack
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio State University is beefing up its emergency alert system and streamlining the way officials communicate in a crisis after a November car-and-knife attack exposed some flaws in the text-message procedure. Some campus c...
Ohio court considers privacy rights in backpack search
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The Ohio Supreme Court is weighing the constitutionality of a student's backpack search that authorities say led first to the discovery of bullets and later a gun. At issue before the high court is whether a second search of t...
Court considers constitutionality of Ohio execution process
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A federal appeals court plans to consider arguments over the constitutionality of Ohio's lethal injection process as the state tries to start carrying out executions once again. At issue is whether a contested sedative, m...
Police: Boy shot classmate, then asked victim to shoot him
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The Ohio teen accused of shooting a classmate in school expressed surprise his victim was still alive, apologized and then turned his shotgun around and asked the student to kill him, according to a police account of the a...
Judge's rejection of jury's execution recommendation is rare
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A recent decision by a Cleveland judge to overrule a jury's death sentence recommendation for a triple killer highlights how rare such judicial decisions are. Research by The Associated Press found just eight additional e...
