Ohio boy and his dog found abandoned at cemetery days before Christmas, community sends gifts to lift spirits

Ohio researchers on Wednesday announced that they’ve identified two coronavirus variants that likely originated in the United States.  One of the new strains was identified in a single patient in the state, "so researchers do not yet know the prevalence of the strain in the population," according to Ohio State Wexner Medical Center where researchers first identified the variants.  This new variant "carries a mutation identical to the U.K.

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine has signed a gun rights bill that eliminates a person’s duty to retreat before using force, despite previously voicing concerns that some lawmakers were ignoring legislation that he proposed following the 2019 mass shooting in Dayton.

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.

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.