Ohio

Hope Skerrett and Kerriah Ohler fled the Stark Regional Community Correction Center Monday evening by climbing a fence, crossing razor wire with a robe, and jumping from the roof. Investigators discovered evidence suggesting planned outside assistance, including an alleged meeting near a Walmart and possible help from a terminated employee.

COLUMBUS, OH (WTRF) – Ohio Attorney General Andy Wilson has filed separate lawsuits against two home-improvement companies accused of taking customer payments without completing promised work or providing roofing work that consumers said was defective. Nine consumers reported paying Journey Home Restoration in Lorain County a combined $140,000. Five consumers reported losing more than $60,000 […]

Archeologists investigating the historic Overfield Tavern Museum in Troy have found more than 18,500 artifacts, ranging from ceramic shards to early coins. Those artifacts offer a look into life on the Ohio frontier 200 years ago. Animal bones and plant seeds provide insight into Ohioan’s diets, collections of buttons and straight pins point to where women mended and sewed clothes, and pottery fragments can help researchers piece together international trade networks.

The FOX 8 I-Team has found new charges just filed against an 83-year-old career criminal, a man who has done hard time in prison and had his crimes featured in a book and movie.

TOLEDO, Ohio (WOWO) — Ohio is reviewing more than two dozen complaints from drivers who suspect gas stations failed to pass along savings from the state’s temporary gas tax suspension, with some motorists questioning whether they received the full benefit of the tax break. The complaints have been...

There's a species of fish in Ohio that could grow to be more than 300 pounds and if you encounter one — no matter its size — wildlife officials are asking the public to report it.

Automated license plate readers are sold to communities as a high-tech tool to catch fleeing suspects and solve violent crimes. But what happens when the person abusing the surveillance network is the one wearing the badge? Sharonville Police Lieutenant Walter…

Thunderstorms Thursday give way to powerful Friday winds and temperatures near freezing Saturday night.

Cincinnati Public Schools is the first school district in the nation to own and operate a parking lot where families experiencing homelessness can go to at night and sleep in their cars.  Cincinnati’s Safe Sleep Lot opened April 30 at William Howard Taft Elementary School and more than 300 people have slept in the lot […]

A sandbag dropped from a Toledo bridge killed a passenger on Interstate 75, and his mother later won an appeals court ruling holding Ohio responsible. That victory has now been overturned: the Ohio Supreme Court ... Read more