An Ohio man has been sentenced to 22 years to life for killing his mother and brother found buried behind their burned-out home near Akron.

A former Ohio pet-store employee has been sentenced to six months of probation for drowning two injured rabbits and showing off about it on Facebook.

A high-rise apartment resident was transported after a fire broke out in the building.

Charles Fairbanks, 50, of Columbus, was sentenced in United States District Court here today to 75 months in prison for using the Internet to regularly distribute digital images of pre-adolescent minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct.

Miami University of Ohio provost Dr. Jeffrey Herbst is the new president of Colgate University.

Law enforcement in Ohio and Kentucky are currently looking for a man believed to be responsible for at least seven armed bank robberies committed in the two states between September 2008 and October 7, 2009. 

An Ohio sheriff says the suspect in the murder of a woman whose body was dumped in Pennsylvania has been found dead.

An Ohio college’s beheaded statue of President James Garfield is back in one piece months after it was vandalized.

A new trial is sought for the mother of a toddler dubbed “Baby Grace” after her unidentified body turned up in Galveston Bay.

A Texas jury has convicted a man for the 2007 beating death of his 2-year-old stepdaughter whose battered body was found in a container floating in Galveston Bay.

An Ohio man who threatened to blow up several Cincinnati-area landmarks has been sentenced to a year and a half in prison.

Oprah Winfrey is only the beginning for Sarah Palin’s book tour.

Some states are doing better than others of schools identifying students who are eligible for free or reduced-price school lunches.

Rachael Ray plans to serve an early Thanksgiving dinner to an Ohio community slammed by job losses.

Around 10:30 p.m. on Thursday night, Columbus Police and Division of Fire were called to 631 Kingsford Road on a report of a shooting.