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#1 Adults in Ohio Can Legally Possess and Grow Marijuana – But There’s Nowhere to Buy It

Dec 11 2023 // COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) – Ohioans woke up Thursday in a land of recreational marijuana limbo, in which adults can legally grow and possess cannabis at home, but cannot legally buy it.That combination of factors related to a...

#2 Former Root Marketing Exec Pleads Guilty to Taking Over $10 Million From the Insurer

Dec 1 2023 // Brinson Caleb “BC” Silver, former chief marketing officer for insurtech Root, has pleaded guilty to stealing more than $10 million from his former employer and violating court orders.According to the U.S....

#3 Whistleblower Questions Delayed Use of Sensor Plane After Ohio Train Derailment

May 16 2024 // The U.S. government has a specialized plane loaded with advanced sensors that officials brag is always ready to deploy within an hour of any kind of chemical disaster. But the plane didn’t fly over eastern Ohio until...

#4 3M, DuPont Defeat Massive Class Action Over Forever Chemicals

Nov 28 2023 // A U.S. appeals court on Monday handed 3M, Corteva Inc subsidiary E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Co and other manufacturers of toxic so-called “forever chemicals” a big win in their fight against legal liability...

#5 Two Dead After Plane Crash on Florida Interstate

Feb 12 2024 // NAPLES, Fla. (AP) — A pilot and co-pilot were identified as the two killed in a fiery plane crash on a Florida highway, law enforcement officials said.The Collier County Sheriff’s Office identified Edward Daniel...

#6 Ohio Settles Lawsuit With Chemical Companies For $110 Million Over PFAS Contamination

Dec 1 2023 // DOVER, Del. (AP) – The DuPont Co. and two spin-off firms will pay $110 million to the state of Ohio to settle a lawsuit over environmental threats from toxic chemicals used at a former DuPont facility in neighboring West...

#7 Few Residents Opt Out of Proposed $600 Million Settlement in Ohio Train Derailment

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...

#8 Top Midwest Insurance Journal Stories of 2023

Dec 29 2023 // Insurance Journal Midwest readers in 2023 gravitated to stories on multi-million dollar rulings, policy language disputes and failing mutual insurance companies. Readers were also interested in the fallout of the East...

#9 Freight Railroads Must Keep 2-Person Crews Under New Federal Rule

Apr 4 2024 // Major freight railroads will have to maintain two-person crews on most routes under a new federal rule that was finalized Tuesday in a milestone in organized labor’s long fight to preserve the practice.The...

#10 Hidden Report Reveals Worker Illnesses From Ohio Derailment Cleanup

Aug 19 2024 // The creeks around East Palestine, Ohio, were so badly contaminated by last year’s disastrous Norfolk Southern derailment that some workers became sick during the cleanup.Workers who reported headaches and nausea —...

#11 Ohio Explosion Caused by Cut Gas Line Thought to be Turned Off: Investigators

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...

#12 Fast Trains, Toxic Chemicals: Why Rail Safety Is Still a Problem

Feb 2 2024 // In the year since the derailment of a Norfolk Southern Inc. train brought national attention to US railroad safety, little has changed.Trains are still rolling through East Palestine, Ohio, at 50 miles per hour — the...

#13 Rising Spring Rains Pose Challenges for Midwest Farmers

May 7 2024 // SABINA, Ohio (AP) — It was just after dark as Ross Woodruff hopped into a truck to haul soybean seeds out to his brother, Mark, whose planter had run out. It was the first day they could plant after heavy rains two weeks...

#14 Ohio Supreme Court Affirms 4-Year Deadline for Med Mal Wrongful Death Claims

Jan 2 2024 // A divided Ohio Supreme Court on Thursday drew a bright line around the state’s statute of repose for medical malpractice claims, ruling in separate cases that an absolute four-year deadline to bring an action applies...

#15 Ohio Supreme Court Orders City to Pay $30 Million Police Brutality Judgment

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...

#16 Ohio City Settles with Former Officer and Truck Driver Involved in K-9 Attack

Feb 13 2024 // COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A central Ohio city agreed this week to a settlement with a former K-9 officer and a truck driver involved in an attack last year, video of which garnered national attention and raised questions...

#17 Lawyers Want Ohio Residents to Wait for Details of $600M Derailment Settlement

Apr 12 2024 // The lawyers who negotiated a $600 million settlement with Norfolk Southern over that railroad’s disastrous 2023 derailment in Ohio want residents to talk with them before deciding the historic deal isn’t...

#18 Norfolk Southern Says Total Costs of East Palestine Derailment Up to $1.1B

Jan 31 2024 // Norfolk Southern’s fourth-quarter profit fell 33% because of the ever growing costs of the cleanup of last year’s fiery derailment in eastern Ohio, but the railroad did deliver 3% more shipments during the...

#19 Five Killed in Ohio Mobile Home Fire on Thanksgiving

Nov 28 2023 // ATHENS, Ohio (AP) – Five people, including two children, were killed in a mobile home fire in Ohio on Thanksgiving morning, authorities said.The Ohio Department of Commerce said volunteer firefighters in Athens County...

#20 Ohio Meat Processing Plant Faces $277,000 in Proposed Penalties for Safety Violations

Dec 11 2023 // A federal investigation into how a 35-year-old worker suffered severe leg burns, degloving of their foot and other injuries after falling into corrosive chemicals in May 2023 has found that an Ohio meat processing...