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One Good Thing: Wickedly creative pandemic trick-or-treating
CINCINNATI (AP) — Dropping candy down a chute for little costumed Baby Sharks, Mulans and Black Panthers. Flinging full-size candy bars to them via mini-catapults, "Game of Thrones" style, or with decorated slingshots. Scattering candy at social d...
Trump takes aim at WHO as US economic outlook worsens
WASHINGTON (AP) — With new U.S. economic numbers highlighting the rough road ahead for a hoped-for rebound, President Donald Trump on Friday took aim at the World Health Organization and China, blaming both for their roles in the pandemic's d...
Trump takes aim at WHO as US economic outlook worsens
WASHINGTON (AP) — With new U.S. economic numbers highlighting the rough road ahead for a hoped-for rebound, President Donald Trump on Friday took aim at the World Health Organization and China, blaming both for their roles in the pandemic's d...
VIRUS DIARY: Fantasy baseball, when real ball is the fantasy
CINCINNATI (AP) — "People ask me what I do in winter when there is no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring." — Rogers Hornsby (1896-1963), baseball Hall of Famer ___ Updating my brackets, I looked forward to a...
Shooter's friend who bought body armor to remain in jail
DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — A longtime friend of the Dayton shooter who authorities say bought him body armor and helped assemble the weapon used in the massacre will remain in jail on a charge unrelated to the shooting. Authorities said there's no i...
Trump says he'd rather rallygoers not chant 'Send her back!'
CINCINNATI (AP) — President Donald Trump said he would "prefer" that his supporters at a rally Thursday night don't engage in a "Send her back!" chant about a Somali-born congresswoman, after he faced widespread criticism for not doing more to stop t...
FBI rejects young man's claim to be long-missing boy
CINCINNATI (AP) — A young man's claim to be an Illinois boy who disappeared under tragic circumstances eight years ago was disproved by DNA tests and pronounced a hoax Thursday, dashing hopes that the baffling case had finally been solved. For a d...
Ex-convict charged with pretending to be long-missing boy
CINCINNATI (AP) — A 23-year-old ex-convict accused of pulling a cruel hoax by pretending to be a long-missing Illinois boy was charged Friday with making false statements to federal authorities. The FBI said Brian Rini had made false claims twice b...
Ted Bundy's murderous charm still polarizes, 40 years later
CINCINNATI (AP) — She kept her eyes on the dapper, wavy-haired man who smiled, winked and exuded self-confidence as the courtroom proceedings moved along. "I don't know what it is he has, but he's fascinating," the teenage spectator explained to m...
Child at center of Ohio mass killing is safe, family says
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A child at the center of a custody dispute that may have set off a gruesome Ohio massacre is safe in state custody, her great-grandfather said Wednesday, before one of the four suspects in the killings appeared in court. L...
'A horrific situation: 4 dead in Cincinnati bank shooting
CINCINNATI (AP) — A gunman carrying enough ammunition to cause "a bloodbath beyond imagination" killed three people and wounded two others Thursday morning at a high-rise office building in the heart of Cincinnati before dying in a hail of police gun...
Texas-based hippo eyeing Cincinnati's famed Fiona
CINCINNATI (AP) — Behold the hippopotamus! We swoon when he looks at us . But will Fiona? Cincinnati's famed hippo Fiona has her first public suitor. A 2-year-old hippo named Timothy at the zoo in San Antonio, Texas, has launched his courtship via s...
White nationalist's lawsuit against university set for trial
CINCINNATI (AP) — A federal judge has set a trial date in 2019 for a lawsuit over an Ohio college's demand for a security fee from organizers of white nationalist Richard Spencer's campus tour. U.S. District Judge Susan J. Dlott scheduled a series o...
APNewsBreak: White nationalist to drop Ohio State lawsuit
CINCINNATI (AP) — A new attorney for white nationalist Richard Spencer's campus tour efforts said Tuesday he plans to drop a lawsuit against Ohio State University but that a lawsuit will continue against the University of Cincinnati. Spencer spoke M...
Katie Couric recounts facing sexist attitudes, comments
CINCINNATI (AP) — Veteran TV journalist Katie Couric recounted Thursday facing demeaning descriptions and "gross comments" during her career. Couric spoke at consumer products maker Procter & Gamble's Cincinnati headquarters in a forum on the s...
Campus sued over security cost for white nationalist's visit
CINCINNATI (AP) — White nationalist Richard Spencer's campus tour organizer is suing the University of Cincinnati's president, saying the school wouldn't rent space for Spencer to speak on campus unless a nearly $11,000 security fee was paid. An a...
Cause of Ohio man's death in North Korea may never be known
CINCINNATI (AP) — A coroner said Wednesday her office could not determine what led to the fatal brain damage of a young Ohio man detained in North Korea for more than a year. While the parents of 22-year-old Otto Warmbier and President Donald T...
US appeals court agrees that college can't suspend student
CINCINNATI (AP) — A federal appeals court agreed Monday that the University of Cincinnati should not have suspended a student accused of sexually assaulting a fellow student. The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeal's 3-0 ruling agreed with a federal j...
In US, factory jobs are high-tech, but the workers are not
NORWOOD, Ohio (AP) — Herbie Mays is 3M proud, and it shows — in the 3M shirt he wears; in the 3M ring he earned after three decades at the company's plant in suburban Cincinnati; in the way he shows off a card from a 3M supervisor, praising Mays as...
Parents test school liability in bullying and child suicide
CINCINNATI (AP) — The parents of an 8-year-old Ohio boy who hanged himself from his bunk bed with a necktie want school officials held responsible, testing the issue of school liability in suicides blamed on bullying. The wrongful death lawsuit f...
Parents' lawsuit blames schools for bullying, child suicide
CINCINNATI (AP) — The parents of an 8-year-old boy who hanged himself blame a "treacherous school environment," alleging in a federal lawsuit filed Monday that school officials allowed and covered up bullying. The wrongful death suit filed by the p...
Ohio prosecutor weighing 3rd trial for ex-police officer
CINCINNATI (AP) — Amid protests and other local pressure, an Ohio prosecutor is pondering whether to try a third time to get a conviction of a former police officer in a racially charged fatal shooting case. Ray Tensing, a white man who at the t...
Campus attack could be latest terror case in heartland state
CINCINNATI (AP) — Authorities are investigating terrorism as a possible motive in the car-and-knife attack on the Ohio State University campus, the latest in a series of cases involving young men who apparently became radicalized in the heartland s...
Prosecutors: US Capitol attack plotter kept trying to incite
CINCINNATI (AP) — An Ohio man who plotted to attack the U.S. Capitol during President Barack Obama's 2015 State of the Union address kept trying from behind bars to urge others to violence in support of the Islamic State group, federal authorities s...