Ohio

Forced to play defense in states he led comfortably months ago, President Donald Trump set his sights on Ohio on Thursday in an attempt to reframe the centerpiece of his reelection pitch.

An Ohio man who was out on parole has been thrown in jail and awaits new felony charges after a photo circulated on social media showing him posing with his knee to the neck of a crying, white 2-year-old boy alongside a message referencing Black Lives Matter.

MAUMEE, Ohio -- Police arrested a man accused of robbing a credit union Tuesday afternoon while holding his 2-year-old son.Investigators have not yet released details on the suspect’s identity, but they said he walked into Directions Credit Union while wearing a hoodie, shorts and a blue surgical mask.With the toddler in one arm, the suspect handed a teller a note, threatening to detonate a bomb unless he received money, authorities told the Sentinel-Tribune.Once the teller complied, the suspect drove off with the cash in a silver Cadillac.Several law enforcement agencies, including the FBI, collaborated with the Maumee Police Department in their search for the suspect.

The powerful Republican speaker of the Ohio House and four associates were arrested Tuesday in a $60 million federal bribery case connected to a taxpayer-funded bailout of Ohio’s two nuclear power plants.

An Ohio police officer killed in the line of duty on the Fourth of July had one last message for his loved ones: “Tell my family I loved them.”

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio — A federal appeals court on Friday declined a university's request to stop one of its football players convicted of rape as a teenager from playing on the team.The ruling means Ma'lik Richmond, 21, will be allowed to play for Youngstown State University in a game against Central Connecticut State University on Saturday.Youngstown State had asked the appeals court to throw out a Thursday night decision by U.S. District Judge Benita Pearson to temporarily allow Richmond to play football for Youngstown State for at least the next 14 days, including in the 2 p.m. game Saturday.

COLUMBUS, Ohio  — A police officer and another person have been shot and wounded in Ohio's capital city.It happened late Wednesday night in Columbus.The Columbus Dispatch reports officers were executing a search warrant at an apartment house at the time.Police say the officer was shot in the hip and is hospitalized in stable condition.

MIDDLEBURG HEIGHTS, Ohio -- The father of two 14-year-old students at Middleburg Heights Junior High School in Ohio says he was angry when they showed him a photo they snapped of their algebra lesson from earlier this month.

BRUNSWICK, Ohio -- Neighbors in Brunswick, Ohio are wondering who's responsible for a strong of hot sauce attacks.Police said at least 11 homeowners were targeted recently on Waite Farm Lane and Blackburn Lane.The vandal or vandals sprayed hot sauce all over garage doors, street signs, driveways and cars -- even leaving behind several crude phallic symbols.Nobody has been caught, but Sandra Fowler said she'd like to know who did it."Oh I was angry.

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Mourners are filing by John Glenn's flag-draped casket at Ohio's capitol building as his home state and the nation say goodbye to the history-making astronaut.The first American to orbit Earth will lie in state at least eight hours Friday in Columbus before a public memorial service Saturday.

PAINESVILLE, Ohio -- After a massive pileup crash near Lansing, Michigan -- believed to have been weather-related on Thursday, December 8th -- there was an even bigger pileup in Ohio.It happened on I-90 in Lake County -- in Painesville, Ohio -- between Route 44 and Vrooman Road.Eastbound and westbound I-90 were closed as a result of the crash -- involving more than 50 vehicles.Officials with the Lake County Sheriff's Office said people were trapped in their vehicles, and there were multiple injuries.The scene wasn't expected to be cleared for some time.Earlier Thursday, according to the Lake County Sheriff's Office, there were about five jackknifed semis and multiple accidents in the area due to icy roads.

TWINSBURG, Ohio – An Ohio man is out of a job after police pulled him over for driving a school bus loaded with students at twice the speed limit, according to WJW.The Twinsburg City Schools driver was cited for going 50 miles per hour in a 25 miles per hour zone on Post Road just after 2 p.m. Thursday, according to a copy of the citation.Dashboard camera video showed an officer pursuing the speeding bus, with body camera video rolling as the officer asked the driver why he was going so fast.