By LISA CORNWELL CINCINNATI (AP) — A veteran of a small suburban Cincinnati police force has been indicted on federal charges of conspiring to smuggle marijuana across the country through methods that included hiding it in the gas tanks of cars. Bryon Roos, an officer in North College Hill, is among 11 men indicted on [...]
By JULIE CARR SMYTH COLUMBUS (AP) — A yearlong Democratic fight against Republican-written election rules in Ohio is officially snuffed. That leaves GOP Secretary of State Jon Husted under mounting pressure from Democrats and civil rights groups to use the power of his office to extend voting hours in heavily minority areas of the presidential [...]
CINCINNATI (AP) — An Ohio commission is set to release a report about sex trafficking based on interviews with more than 300 victims in communities across the state. Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine will speak about the report’s findings at a news conference Tuesday afternoon in Columbus. Joining him will be the study’s author, a [...]
GREEN TOWNSHIP (AP) — Authorities in southwest Ohio say police shot and killed an armed man suspected of firing rounds at a woman’s home. The fatal shooting happened about 8:30 p.m. Friday in Green Township, when police say the suicidal man on a porch pointed a rifle at local police and a Hamilton County Sheriff’s [...]
CINCINNATI (AP) — A veteran Cincinnati police officer is accused of possessing child pornography. Authorities said 42-year-old Randolph Grote resigned from the Cincinnati department this week and was indicted by a federal grand jury. They say images of child pornography were found on his computer and storage devices last year during a national sex crimes [...]
CINCINNATI (AP) – The University of Cincinnati has agreed to pay a couple $600,000 to settle a claim involving a chemistry experiment that seriously burned their 7-year-old daughter. The couple said in a complaint against the university that ethanol exploded during an experiment on Jan. 31, 2011, igniting their daughter as her young sister [...]
HAMILTON, Ohio (AP) – Police in southwest Ohio are perplexed about why a woman tried to sneak into a county jail before telling authorities to arrest her. Deputies with the Butler County Sheriff’s Office arrested 36-year-old Tiffany R. Hurd on Sunday morning after she was caught trying to climb over a fence into Butler [...]
CINCINNATI (AP) — Authorities say two elderly Cincinnati women were killed when their vehicle was hit by a truck that police had been chasing. The Ohio State Highway Patrol said the Sunday night crash in Union Township, east of Cincinnati, killed two women in their 70s in a Chrysler minivan. The Cincinnati [...]
