All the headlines from our Ohio Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 13 2024 // A bill making its way through the Ohio General Assembly would prohibit requiring firearm liability insurance.Senate Bill 58 passed the House by a 61-27 vote and now heads to the Ohio Senate, where legislators in the...
Dec 13 2024 // COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The Ohio Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that the state’s product liability law prohibits counties from bringing public nuisance claims against national pharmaceutical chains as they did as...
Dec 9 2024 // U.S. Department of Labor inspectors found a Cleveland, Ohio bakeware manufacturer failed to prevent two workers from suffering injuries that resulted in amputations, incidents that could have been avoided with proper...
Dec 3 2024 // The U.S. Department of Labor has cited a Portsmouth, Ohio hardwood floor manufacturer with a long history of federal safety violations after the company reported a 23-year-old worker suffered a partial arm amputation while...
Nov 26 2024 // An Ohio man was sentenced to five years in prison and ordered to pay restitution for filing 24 fraudulent claims with multiple insurance companies, totaling more than $229,000, the Ohio Department of Insurance...
Nov 25 2024 // An Ohio outpatient mental health treatment facility has agreed to pay a $16,000 settlement and take numerous steps to improve workplace safety after a patient attacked a nurse practitioner violently in April...
Nov 21 2024 // Risk Strategies announced it has acquired the assets of Ohio-based employee benefits specialty organization Cornerstone Broker Insurance Services Agency, Inc., an Ohio-based national provider of employee benefits...
Nov 4 2024 // CINCINNATI (AP) — A massive fire underneath a bridge spanning the Ohio River closed a heavily traveled route between Cincinnati and northern Kentucky on Friday and damaged part of the steel structure. No injuries were...
Nov 1 2024 // Big data centers in Ohio will have to pay a minimum of 85% of the energy they need to cover the costs of grid improvements under a settlement submitted Wednesday by one of the state’s largest utilities.The pact was...
Oct 18 2024 // AKRON, Ohio (AP) — A family is settling a wrongful death lawsuit against Ohio police who fired 94 bullets at a Black man during a chase two years ago.Jayland Walker’s family and the city of Akron reached an...
Oct 8 2024 // GOSHEN, Ohio (AP) — An early morning crash involving two cars on an Ohio road killed five people and critically injured another person, authorities said.The Ohio State Highway Patrol said a car heading northeast on Route...
Oct 3 2024 // Settlement checks related to Norfolk Southern’s disastrous 2023 derailment could be delayed up to two years now because an appeal of a federal judge’s decision last week to approve the $600 million deal has...
Oct 1 2024 // VAN BUREN TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — A federal agency said it has resumed sending hazardous waste to a Michigan landfill from Ohio while communities in suburban Detroit continue their legal fight to bar waste from a World...
Sep 30 2024 // Federal safety inspectors found a crew working aboard the Cuyahoga, a commercial iron ore vessel moored at the Port of Ashtabula, narrowly avoided disaster after a large fire erupted as they welded off paint in a cargo...
Sep 27 2024 // A federal judge on Wednesday approved a $600 million class-action settlement Wednesday that Norfolk Southern railroad offered to everyone who lived within 20 miles (32 kilometers) of last year’s disastrous derailment...
Sep 26 2024 // CLEVES, Ohio (AP) — Students in school buildings and residents in neighboring homes were told to evacuate after a dangerous chemical began leaking from a railcar Tuesday near Cincinnati.Aerial video showed firefighters...
Sep 17 2024 // BEDFORD, Ohio (AP) — An 8-year-old girl took an SUV from her Ohio home and drove for miles to a store where she was later found unharmed, authorities said.The girl, whose name was not released, and the vehicle — a 2020...
Sep 16 2024 // The CSX worker who discovered his friend run over by a pair of remote-control locomotives in a rail yard last year sees a simple solution to preventing similar deaths in the future: two-person crews.But that idea...
Sep 11 2024 // Very few people who live near the East Palestine, Ohio, train derailment opted out of a $600 million class action settlement despite residents’ reservations about whether the deal offers enough, so lawyers argue the...
Sep 2 2024 // The energy company at the center of a $60 million bribery scheme in Ohio will pay $20 million and avoid criminal charges as part of a deal with state prosecutors to resolve its role in the scandal.Akron-based FirstEnergy...