All the headlines from our Ohio Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 29 2024 // A Hubbard, Ohio industrial manufacturer failed to protect their employees from molten metal that was heated to more than 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit, the U.S. Department of Labor determined after its investigation into how a...
Jul 23 2024 // A truck driver in Ohio has been charged with aggravated vehicular homicide in a chain-reaction crash involving a charter bus filled with high school students that left six people dead and 18 injured.The crash on Interstate...
Jul 22 2024 // VIENNA, Ohio (AP) — A plane trying to make an emergency landing at an airport in northeastern Ohio crashed, killing all three people aboard, authorities said.The twin-engine Beechcraft 60 went down near the...
Jul 19 2024 // Ohio Bar Liability Insurance Company announced that John R. Tribble, MBA, CPCU, CCLA will be joining the company as its next President and CEO. Tribble has held a variety of positions during the past eight years with...
Jul 19 2024 // The EPA’s Inspector General is investigating why the agency didn’t get its specialized plane loaded with advanced sensors into the air over East Palestine until four days after the disastrous Norfolk Southern...
Jul 18 2024 // The Ohio city of East Cleveland must pay a $30 million jury verdict awarded to a man who police wrongly assaulted, arrested and detained, the state’s highest court has ordered.The victim, Arnold Black, went to court...
Jul 18 2024 // Few people ultimately opted out of the $600 million class action settlement Norfolk Southern offered to people affected by last year’s disastrous East Palestine train derailment despite the questions residents raised...
Jul 15 2024 // Four insurance companies filed a subrogation lawsuit against Norfolk Southern in federal court, alleging the rail carrier’s negligence led to the 2023 East Palestine, Ohio train derailment and subsequent fire,...
Jul 9 2024 // A 16-story apartment building in Ohio may reopen early next month, several weeks after it was temporarily shuttered following a deadly natural gas explosion that severely damaged a neighboring building.Youngstown officials...
Jul 1 2024 // Pearl Interactive Network, Inc., a Columbus, Ohio-based telecommunications company, resolved a charge of disability discrimination filed with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal...
Jun 28 2024 // Four insurance companies filed a subrogation lawsuit against Norfolk Southern in federal court last week, alleging the rail carrier’s negligence led to the 2023 East Palestine, Ohio train derailment and subsequent...
Jun 27 2024 // The U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) issued its final investigation report into the fatal naphtha release and fire at the BP-Husky Toledo Refinery (“BP Toledo Refinery”) in Oregon,...
Jun 25 2024 // The National Transportation Safety Board opened a meeting Tuesday to determine the probable cause of a February 2023 Norfolk Southern NSC.N train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio and is making sweeping recommendations to...
Jun 25 2024 // CINCINNATI (AP) — A man who apparently entered a restricted area to retrieve his lost keys at a theme park in Ohio was critically injured when he was struck by a steel roller coaster, police and park officials said.The...
Jun 24 2024 // A Sandusky, Ohio pork processing facility exposed workers to a release of ammonia gas, leading the U.S. Department of Labor to open two inspections and issue 43 violations of federal regulations.Investigators with the...
Jun 21 2024 // Nationwide automotive hauling and logistics company Wheeler Trucking, doing business as Wheeler Trucking Inc. and Wheeler Logistics, Inc. will pay $65,000 and furnish equitable relief to settle a race and religion lawsuit...
Jun 4 2024 // YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (AP) — A crew working in the basement area of an Ohio building intentionally cut a gas line not knowing it was pressurized before a deadly explosion last week, the National Transportation Safety Board...
Jun 3 2024 // One of the world’s largest and best-known tool and equipment manufacturers could have prevented a 29-year-old maintenance electrician from suffering severe burns during an electrical arc blast at a company facility...
May 31 2024 // YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (AP) — A massive explosion blew out much of the ground floor of an apartment building, killing a bank employee and injuring several other people. Police and emergency officials initially blamed natural...
May 23 2024 // Norfolk Southern NSC.N agreed to pay a $15 million civil penalty and $57.1 million in past government cleanup costs on Thursday, as well as millions in future costs to resolve a U.S. government lawsuit over a 2023 train...