Ohio

WASHINGTON (WOWO) – Ohio experienced the steepest decline in homeownership affordability of any state between 2020 and 2025, with fewer occupations paying enough to afford a typical home, according to a new report from the National Housing Conference. The report, Priced Out: When a Good Job Isn’t Enough, found...

ALLIANCE, Ohio (WOIO) - It was an eventful Wednesday for Alliance Police Officer Hook. He said while attempting to arrest a fugitive wanted for theft and criminal trespass earlier this week, he was surprised by a pet raccoon. Alliance police had responded to a local home to serve a warrant...

TOLEDO, Ohio (WTVG) - More than 100 employees of the Toledo Blade are set to be out of a job by the end of the year, according to new state filings. The Blade will end publication on Dec. 31, 2026, according to a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN) letter submitted on Oct. 23. In the two week period that follows, the company will permanently lay off its employees, who will have no bumping or reemployment rights.

CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - A fire at a Salvation Army Warehouse destroyed thousands of toys being saved for hundreds of Cleveland area children. The electrical fire happened over the summer at a storage unit where the Salvation Army stores toys they receive throughout the year. The fire destroyed more than...

Kettering Health will leave Anthem’s Medicare Advantage network on January 1, 2027, taking 14 medical centers and more than 120 outpatient sites across western Ohio out of reach as in-network care. Anyone on an Anthem Medicare Advantage plan, including Anthem MyCare, who uses a Kettering hospital or doctor has until December 7 to move to... The post Anthem Medicare Advantage members in western Ohio lose Kettering Health’s 14 medical centers and 120-plus outpatient sites as in-network care on Ja

What began as a friendship and a potential home sale in Ohio eventually morphed into a monstrous legal battle over who had the right to a house. After moving into the property in question, a couple spent tens of thousands of dollars renovating it, believing they would eventually become its owners. When the purchase fell...

Ohio food stamp shoppers will not be able to use their benefits on sugar-sweetened drinks or on any fountain drinks beginning April 1, 2027, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s list of state restriction waivers. The list was updated October 13, 2026. That is six months later than the date Ohio first had in […]

Two dogs that neighbors identify as rottweilers had been slipping loose from a yard near Virginia Court and the Trailside neighborhood in Green Township for months before they attacked a woman and her dog on the Ohio Trail, according to neighbors. The woman needed surgery on both her hand and her face and is now out of work, and her dog did not survive the attack.

Kent City Council authorized an ordinance Oct. 21 that makes it illegal to feed certain wild critters on public or private property. Specified in the new law are deer, geese, ducks, raccoons, skunks, chipmunks, squirrels and other rodents, feral cats “or other wild animals or wildlife.”. The ordinance does...

Ohio drivers are still feeling the pinch at the pump, even after Gov. Mike DeWine signed a bill suspending the state’s gas tax for 90 days in an effort to provide relief.