All the headlines from our Ohio Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 26 2025 // DialAmerica Marketing, LLC, a provider of telemarketing and call-center services for third-party clients, will pay $85,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charging...
Jun 25 2025 // First Financial announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Westfield Bancorp, in a cash and stock transaction, from Ohio Farmers Insurance Company. Ohio Farmers is the parent company of the global...
Jun 19 2025 // A former Ohio doctor who was fired before being found not guilty on murder charges in the deaths of 14 patients lost a defamation lawsuit against his former employers on Monday, after a judge stepped in for a jury on...
Jun 12 2025 // Fabcon, a Delaware corporation with a manufacturing facility in Ohio, was sentenced to pay a $500,000 fine, the statutory maximum, after pleading guilty to willfully violating an Occupational Safety and Health...
Jun 9 2025 // A specialized plane equipped with advanced sensors that the government deploys to chemical disasters could have helped authorities avoid needlessly blowing open five rail tank cars and burning their toxic contents after...
May 20 2025 // Two women and a 5-year-old girl died after a train struck the family members while they were on a railroad bridge over a northern Ohio river, authorities said Monday.Crews equipped with sonar had been scouring the Sandusky...
May 16 2025 // Morton Salt, Inc. will pay $75,000 and provide other relief to settle a race, disability and retaliation discrimination case filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency...
May 12 2025 // An Ohio high school lacrosse player died Thursday from injuries he suffered during a lacrosse game.The family of Dylan Veselic announced his death in a message posted to the Bay Village High School lacrosse team’s X...
May 2 2025 // Norfolk Southern began making promises to East Palestine, Ohio, soon after its train derailed and caught fire in February 2023. The railroad said it would “make it right” after five tank cars of vinyl chloride...
May 1 2025 // Bennett Enterprises Inc., doing business as Ralphie’s Sports Eatery Company, will pay $125,000 and provide other relief to settle a race, disability and retaliation discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal...
Apr 25 2025 // The company that owned the railcar that caused the devastating East Palestine train derailment in 2023 won’t have to help pay for the $600 million settlement Norfolk Southern agreed to with residents.An Ohio jury...
Apr 24 2025 // Prompted by a stinging defeat at the U.S. Supreme Court, Republican Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost on Tuesday said he was putting aside his objections and allowing a proposed constitutional amendment that would end...
Apr 22 2025 // Elon Musk’s electric vehicle company Tesla has agreed to settle a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the estate of a man who was killed in 2021 after his Tesla crashed and caught fire near Dayton, Ohio.Tesla and lawyers...
Mar 31 2025 // Norfolk Southern wants two other companies to help pay for the $600 million class-action settlement it agreed to over its disastrous 2023 train derailment near the Ohio-Pennsylvania border and the toxic chemicals that were...
Mar 24 2025 // AM Best has revised the outlook to stable from negative for the Long-Term Issuer Credit Ratings (Long-Term ICR) and affirmed the Financial Strength Rating (FSR) of A (Excellent) and the Long-Term ICRs of “a+”...
Mar 10 2025 // A former Ohio fire department administrator and police officer was sentenced in federal court here to 18 months in prison for starting dozens of arson fires in Wayne National Forest.James A. Bartels, 52, of Rio Grande,...
Mar 5 2025 // AM Best has revised the outlook to stable from negative for the Long-Term Issuer Credit Ratings (Long-Term ICR) and affirmed the Financial Strength Rating (FSR) of A (Excellent) and the Long-Term ICRs of “a+”...
Mar 4 2025 // The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation board of directors announced a 6% rate cut for private employees effective July 1, 2025. The reduction follows a 7% rate cut for private employers last year.Ohio’s...
Feb 27 2025 // A federal judge on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit accusing Norfolk Southern NSC.N of causing hundreds of millions of dollars of losses for bondholders by concealing safety risks prior to the February 2023 derailment in East...
Feb 21 2025 // A former Ohio fire department administrator and police officer was sentenced in federal court here to 18 months in prison for starting dozens of arson fires in Wayne National Forest.James A. Bartels, 52, of Rio Grande,...