Customer leaves $5600 tip at Ohio restaurant: 'Amazing gesture of kindness'

YELLOW SPRINGS, Ohio -- Comedian Dave Chappelle is set to buy a former fire station near his Ohio hometown with plans to turn it into a comedy club.The Miami Twp.

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine signed a bill Wednesday requiring women to either cremate or bury fetal remains from surgical abortions.

Mae Hamilton Though he spent nearly nine years with the NBA’s Cleveland Cavaliers, Tristan Thompson officially plays for the Boston Celtics as of November. So, what’s a baller on the move to do? Sell the old Ohio stomping grounds, of course, as Realtor.com reported.Thompson bought his Lake Erie home way back in 2015 for $1.9 million, a great deal below the current $3.25 million ask.

An Ohio 3-year-old found abandoned in a cemetery with his dog just days before Christmas has been reunited with both his father and the dog, police said Thursday. The boy’s mother, whose identity police have not released, was undergoing treatment at a local medical facility and may face charges upon her release, according to Hinckley police Chief David Centner, who posted an update on the case to Facebook.

As the nation pushes forward with its drive to vaccinate frontline workers for COVID-19, 60% percent of nursing home staff members in Ohio have so far chosen not to receive the coronavirus vaccine, Gov. Mike DeWine said.

Children exposed to classmates who tested positive for COVID-19 will no longer have to quarantine in Ohio, Gov. Mike DeWine announced Wednesday.

An Ohio community and police department rallied around a 3-year-old boy who was found abandoned with his dog at a cemetery just two days before Christmas, delivering the child numerous presents to brighten his spirits during the holiday, authorities said. When officers arrived at Hope Memorial Gardens Cemetery on Dec.

A convicted murderer and rapist who survived an attempt to execute him by lethal injection more than a decade ago died Monday in an Ohio prison of possible coronavirus complications, officials said. Romell Broom, 64, was placed on the "COVID probable list," though his official cause of death is pending a death certificate, the state prison system said Tuesday.

A federal appeals court on Tuesday ruled that the parents of an 8-year-old boy who killed himself because he was repeatedly bullied can sue the Cincinnati school district.   The three-judge panel of the 6th U.S.

A former upstate New York politician who fled before his 1997 jail sentencing was found by police limping on the side of an Ohio road this week, a report said. Fugitive William Jones, once the supervisor for the town of Mentz in Cayuga County, had been living in the Buckeye State under a fake name when he was caught, authorities told Syracuse.com.

Officials in Columbus, Ohio released police body camera footage that shows the fatal shooting of a 47-year-old man holding a cell phone, the second shooting in the area of a Black man by authorities this month.  The video shows the deadly encounter between police and Andre Hill, who was shot seconds after an officer found him emerging from a garage early Tuesday morning. Police initially responded to the area around 1:30 a.m.

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine didn’t say which way he was leaning on a "Stand Your Ground" bill that the state's Republican-led Senate approved Friday -- and that now heads to DeWine's desk.

An upcoming special election to fill Rep. Marcia Fudge’s seat in Ohio’s 11th congressional district could prompt a clash between progressive and moderate Democrats, according to a report on Tuesday.

A police department in Ohio is calling for parents to be more responsible after 60 maskless young people celebrating a 14th birthday flooded out of a tightly packed party bus into a mall parking lot Saturday. Officers on a routine patrol saw the rowdy group getting out of the bus at 9:50 p.m.

The body of one worker was recovered Saturday, and another remained unaccounted for, as crews continue to search through the debris left after a power plant in Ohio collapsed last week. Search crews recovered the body of one man Saturday evening beneath rubble left at the Killen Generating Station in Adams County, Manchester Fire Chief Rick Bowman said.

Ohio police say their search for two 15-year-old runaway girls has ended with one’s safe return after being found in California and the other’s tragic death in Nevada. The girl who died was identified as Kathryn McGuire.

Federal authorities in Ohio on Tuesday joined the investigation into the death of a Black man in Columbus last week, who was allegedly fatally shot by a sheriff’s deputy while entering his grandmother’s home. The U.S.

Two workers have been hospitalized and three others are still trapped under rubble after a building at an Ohio power plant collapsed early Wednesday morning.  Adams County Sheriff Kimmy Rogers said rescue workers are in contact with one of the trapped workers who is stuck beneath rubble at the Killen Generating Station in Adams County.That worker is able to communicate as rescue efforts continue, while two others remain unaccounted for.  It is unclear what caused the building to collapse around

Trey Songz reportedly headlined a 500-person indoor concert at an Ohio nightclub that authorities said demonstrated a flagrant disregard for COVID-19 safety protocols.  The 36-year-old singer, who revealed to his followers in October that he tested positive for the coronavirus, was advertised as the headliner of the Aftermath nightclub’s “Champagne Saturdays” over the weekend.  People reports that the nightclub received citations from the Ohio Investigative Unit (OIU) after its agents attended