COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — President Donald Trump is returning to the blue-collar Ohio city where frustrated former Democrats crossed party lines last year to help send him to the White House. The Republican president will appear in Youngstown at 7 p.m. Tuesday for an event at the Covelli ...

CINCINNATI (AP) — A popular baby hippo has expanded her influence to a Cincinnati-based ice cream chain by inspiring its new flavor Chunky Chunky Hippo. The new ice cream flavor offered by the ice cream company Graeter's is a toffee ice cream with salted roasted peanuts and milk chocolate ...

FREMONT, Ohio (AP) — Authorities in northern Ohio say two inmates have escaped from a country jail through an unlocked emergency door that was used by another inmate in a 2016 escape. Sandusky County Sheriff Chris Hilton says 37-year-old Mickey Hardy and 26-year-old Jordan Chapman "took ...

By DAN SEWELL, Associated Press CINCINNATI (AP) — Two years after a white Ohio police officer fatally shot an unarmed black motorist in the head, the case is now in the hands of federal authorities. Hamilton County prosecutor Joe Deters (DEE'-turs) says prosecutors have already given ...

MANSFIELD, Ohio (AP) — Authorities say a Texas man has been charged with gross abuse of a corpse in Ohio after his wife's body was found in the hatchback of her sport-utility vehicle. The Mansfield News Journal reports (http://ohne.ws/2tppQoM ) a judge on Monday set a $1 million bond for ...

By DAN SEWELL, Associated Press CINCINNATI (AP) — A white police officer who fatally shot an unarmed black motorist during a Cincinnati traffic stop won't face a third murder trial, a prosecutor announced Tuesday while saying he's asking federal authorities to consider possible civil rights ...

CINCINNATI (AP) — The Cincinnati Zoo is celebrating another newborn, an eastern black rhino named Kendi, months after welcoming its now-famous young hippo, Fiona. Caretakers haven't yet determined the gender of the rhino born Monday. They didn't want to interrupt the calf's bonding with its ...

By JULIE CARR SMYTH, Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Some plans to honor John Glenn didn't fly, but that hasn't stopped the late astronaut's devotees from pushing forward with other ideas. Numerous memorials and honors were being pursued as Glenn's birth date arrived Tuesday for the ...

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. (AP) — Three Ohio residents face multiple drug charges after Florida authorities say they left a 6-year-old boy alone at a rest stop on Interstate 95. News outlets report 62-year-old James Robert Morey, 56-year-old Charlene Pitts and 55-year-old Andrea Jean Yantone were ...

WADSWORTH, Ohio (AP) — Some residents in a northern Ohio city are being forced to leave their homes after the structures began sinking into the ground. Wadsworth officials say four condominiums and a nearby house are unsafe and notices have been posted instructing the owners to vacate. ...

By DAN SEWELL, Associated Press CINCINNATI (AP) — An Ohio prosecutor will announce Tuesday whether he will try a white former police officer a third time for the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man during a traffic stop. Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters scheduled an early afternoon ...

BALTIMORE (AP) — Police say it appears that a Johns Hopkins University student athlete found dead last week near the campus accidentally fell to her death from a high-rise building near the campus. Baltimore police spokesman T. J. Smith said at a news conference Monday that it appears that ...

CINCINNATI (AP) — A woman who claimed to have lost her baby during a deadly shooting at her gender reveal party in suburban Cincinnati wasn't even pregnant, police said Monday. Colerain Township Police Chief Mark Denney said investigators only have speculation about why the woman claimed to ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio's elections chief has certified for the fall ballot a proposed constitutional amendment giving crime victims and their families the same rights as the accused. The office of Secretary of State Jon Husted (HYOO'-sted) said Monday that proponents of the proposal had ...

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A man has been sentenced to more than three years in prison for running a fraud scheme targeting Vietnamese people who sought assistance bringing relatives to America. Federal authorities say 42-year-old Hai Van Nguyen of Lynnwood, Washington, falsely claimed that his ...

AKRON, Ohio (AP) — A medical examiner's office says an 8-year-old Akron boy found unresponsive in a northeast Ohio lake over the weekend died of accidental drowning. The Summit County Medical Examiner's Office issued the ruling Monday in the death of Brandon Kitts Jr. of Akron. Authorities ...

By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS, Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — One of Ohio State's most famous football stars sued the university Friday over a marketing program he says used athletes' images without permission and robbed them of compensation. Linebacker Chris Spielman filed the antitrust ...

WILMINGTON, Ohio (AP) — State officials have ordered the slaughter of nearly 300 hogs at a county fair in Ohio after at least two animals tested positive for swine flu. WLWT-TV reports (http://bit.ly/2sXxlyN ) a Clinton County fair representative confirmed Thursday that hogs had tested ...

DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — Several police cruisers escorted a funeral procession in Ohio after a fight broke out at the church service for a homicide victim. The Dayton Daily News reports (http://bit.ly/2tSQovw ) several officers responded to reports of more than 100 people fighting at a Dayton ...

AKRON, Ohio (AP) — Authorities say an Ohio woman was texting on her phone when she struck and killed two 14-year-old girls with her car. Twenty-four-year-old New Franklin resident Natasha Boggs was arrested and jailed Friday. She's charged with voluntary manslaughter, vehicular homicide, ...