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Cleveland County Judge Thad Balkman issued the decision Monday in the nation's first state trial against the companies accused of contributing to the widespread use of the highly addictive painkillers.

The First Amendment right to free speech is no laughing matter, as illustrated by a new exhibit at the world's largest cartoon library.

City Manager Shelley Dickstein said a boil advisory has been issued for residents after the storms cut power to Dayton's pump stations, and that generators are being rushed in.

Authorities are trying to confirm the identity of a teenager who told police he is an Illinois boy missing since 2011.

A 34-year-old Dolgeville man is in police custody in the state of Ohio after being sought in connection with a gruesome murder at an highway rest area.

Police say a gun has been found on a third-grader who told authorities he'd been bullied at a southwest Ohio elementary school.

Police say an Ohio mother hit her daughter with a car as she intentionally drove onto a sidewalk and then backed over the girl's leg because she was walking to school despite being told to stay home.

A 15-year-old Ohio girl charged in the fatal shooting of her sleeping father will stay in custody for now after a judge denied her request for release as she awaits trial.

Family members are pleading for information that could help solve the massacre of eight people in Ohio a year ago.

Police who responded to a report of an Ohio toddler apparently passing out on a sidewalk from a suspected drug overdose in the middle of the night say she was treated at a hospital, and her parents are charged with child endangering.