All the headlines from our Ohio Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 12 2023 // A Senate committee on Wednesday approved a rail-safety bill introduced after the derailment of a freight train in East Palestine, Ohio, but its fate remains uncertain due to significant Republican opposition.The bill would...
May 11 2023 // Norfolk Southern has recommitted to creating a fund for residents near the site of an Ohio train wreck that would cover any decline in home values since before the derailment earlier this year.In early February, 38 cars...
May 9 2023 // The U.S. Senate Commerce Committee on Wednesday will vote on sweeping bipartisan rail safety legislation prompted by a Norfolk Southern-operated train derailment on Feb. 3 in Ohio.Committee Chair Maria Cantwell, a...
May 1 2023 // COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) – Part of a house collapsed and 14 people were injured near The Ohio State University Saturday evening when people climbed onto a roof that was not designed to hold significant weight, authorities...
Apr 28 2023 // CLEVELAND (AP) – An eastern Ohio man told investigators that he tried to burn down an Ohio church because he wanted to prevent a drag show that was scheduled to take place there, federal prosecutors allege in newly...
Apr 27 2023 // Norfolk Southern expects February’s fiery Ohio derailment to cost it $387 million, but that total will likely increase over time and that doesn’t reflect how much the railroad’s insurance companies will...
Apr 26 2023 // AST PALESTINE, Ohio (AP) – Jeff Drummond spends days and nights alone in a tiny room with fake wood paneling, two small beds and a microwave atop a mini refrigerator that serves as a nightstand – his pickup...
Apr 25 2023 // R&L Carriers, Inc. and R&L Carriers, Shared Services, LLC (R&L Carriers), a nationwide trucking company headquartered in Wilmington, Ohio, will pay $1,250,000 to a class of female applicants and take steps to...
Apr 19 2023 // DETROIT (AP) – An Ohio doctor acquitted in the deaths of 14 patients who died after they were given painkillers has filed a lawsuit against a national Catholic health system that operates the hospital where he worked...
Apr 12 2023 // When word surfaced that soils and liquids laced with chemicals from the East Palestine, Ohio, train derailment were being sent to southeastern Michigan for storage, local residents and politicians were livid.“People...
Apr 10 2023 // While working the overnight sanitation shift at an Ohio food processing plant, a 29-year-old temporary worker – on the job just nine months – suffered critical injuries after falling into an industrial blender he was...
Apr 4 2023 // For the third time in five months, federal safety inspectors responded to a Portsmouth, Ohio hardwood flooring mill to investigate reports of unsafe machinery. Two of those inspections involved worker’s injuries, the...
Apr 3 2023 // BP violated U.S. process safety rules and did not train workers properly at its Toledo, Ohio refinery, contributing to the death of two workers at the plant last year, U.S. federal investigators said.The two refinery...
Mar 31 2023 // The U.S. Justice Department filed a lawsuit late Thursday against Norfolk Southern Corp. to ensure that the company pays the full cost of cleanup and any long-term effects of the derailment in Ohio of one of its freight...
Mar 30 2023 // Crews were working Wednesday to remove three remaining barges that got loose on the Ohio River, including one carrying methanol.A total of 10 barges got loose early Tuesday on the river near Louisville, the Kentucky Energy...
Mar 28 2023 // DAYTON, Ohio (AP) – An early morning fire damaged a commercial building complex housing a historic factory founded by the Wright Brothers in Ohio on Sunday, authorities said.Dayton fire crews were sent to the site...
Mar 27 2023 // A Pennsylvania school district serving students in two counties is suing the Norfolk Southern Railway over the railway’s February 3 toxic train derailment in nearby East Palestine, Ohio.The complaint filed by...
Mar 20 2023 // Norfolk Southern Corp. shareholders have accused the railroad of defrauding them by prioritizing profit over safety prior to last month’s derailment of a train carrying hazardous chemicals in East Palestine, Ohio.In...
Mar 17 2023 // BP BP.L violated U.S. process safety rules and did not train workers properly at its Toledo, Ohio refinery, contributing to the death of two workers at the plant last year, U.S. federal investigators said on Thursday.The...
Mar 15 2023 // The state of Ohio sued Norfolk Southern NSC.N Tuesday over the Feb. 3 derailment of a freight train that released over a million gallons of hazardous materials and pollutants into the environment around the town of East...