Police investigating the discovery of 10 bodies and a skull at the home of a registered sex offender dug at the scene and an adjacent backyard Wednesday and hauled out evidence bags as they pursued clues provided by an FBI high-tech sweep.

Developers of the casinos that voters approved for Ohio want a rule that would block communities from “unreasonably” holding up building permits or other local action.

A bronze statue of a girl with pigtails, valued at $6,000, has been stolen from the memorial garden at a Cleveland hospice.

People have come together in Cleveland to thank the coroner’s office for quickly identifying women whose remains were found at the home of a suspected serial killer.

A police department is bringing the old practice of putting wanted pictures on post office walls up to date by including mug shots of fugitives on its Facebook page.

A registered sex offender pleaded not guilty Friday to an alleged attack that prompted a search and the discovery of 11 bodies at his home.

Authorities in Cleveland have identified a 10th woman whose remains were discovered at the home of an accused serial killer.

Ohio Auditor Mary Taylor is telling Cleveland to do something about a ballooning number of broken water meters forcing the city to guess what some customers owe.

Eight people, including three former Ohio Department of Transportation employees, have been indicted in a public corruption investigation.

A stench around the home of a suspected serial killer returned stronger than ever Wednesday as police searched the house next door for more bodies and carried out bags of evidence.

Authorities have identified nine of 11 victims whose remains were found at the Cleveland home of Anthony Sowell, who has been charged with five counts of aggravated murder.

One of Ohio’s foremost champions of tougher sexual predator laws conceded a certain futility to such efforts as body after body was removed last week from the Cleveland home of Anthony Sowell.

Authorities are investigating whether the Cleveland man who owned the home where several bodies were found is connected to any killings in places he lived while in the military.

Authorities say Anthony Sowell lured women into his home in a busy neighborhood, killed them - most by strangulation - and scattered their remains throughout the inside and buried some in the backyard.

Relatives with checkered pasts in the hardscrabble neighborhood seem reluctant to come forward.