A deadline for Ohio’s seven race tracks to make an initial payment on a license to set up video slot machines came and went Tuesday, with only two of the seven tracks making the $13 million payment.

Police say a woman has been arrested for allegedly spanking another woman’s 2-year-old son in a store.

A southwest Ohio man faces murder charges in the death of the wife he had reported missing.

A spokeswoman says the former president and chancellor emeritus of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion has died in Cincinnati.

Four Cincinnati-area sheriff’s deputies were taken to the hospital after struggling with an inmate at the jail. 

A dispute over the reward for a missing Chihuahua has unleashed a lawsuit in Ohio.

Parishioners will no longer offer handshakes as a sign of peace at a Roman Catholic Church in Cincinnati because of concerns about swine flu. 

An endangered Sumatran rhino has died at the Cincinnati Zoo, a blow to a program that successfully produced the first calves born in captivity in decades. 

A Cincinnati man who originally told police he thought he had downloaded Kid Rock music videos has been sentenced to five years in prison for having child pornography on his computer instead.

A coroner has confirmed that human remains found by police investigating an Ohio woman’s disappearance are those of the missing woman. 

A worker from Louisiana who fell from scaffolding on a highway overpass in southwest Ohio last week has died. 

The pace of home weatherization has picked up in Ohio as the state releases most of its federal stimulus dollars for sealing homes from the elements over about 20 months. 

A police union leader fears officials are jumping to conclusions about a Cincinnati officer’s use of a stun gun in the arrest of a city councilman’s daughter.

The husband of a missing suburban Cincinnati woman has been indicted on a charge of tampering with evidence.

UPDATE: An officer’s use of a stun gun while arresting a city councilman’s daughter appears to have been an unnecessary use of force, Cincinnati’s police chief said Monday.