Two Columbus women said they were abducted at gunpoint over the weekend, but authorities say the incident was fabricated.

A pair of friends told police in Buckeye Lake that they locked themselves in the restroom of a Duke and Duchess store to escape two men who had kidnapped them eight hours earlier in Columbus.

The FBI releases a suspect sketch as part of an investigation into an alleged abduction.

A woman says she was abducted from the city’s Northwest Side. She escaped when the vehicle she was allegedly forced to drive overheated in Indiana.

A local man is arrested after police say he stabbed and was held his estranged wife at knifepoint.

Police say they have captured a kidnapper who won a large ransom by taking the daughter of a millionaire hostage.

A man taken into custody in Ohio is accused of having sex with a 13-year-old girl from New York he met on a social networking Web site.

A former firefighter was arrested after an official says he went on a countywide crime spree.

An elderly Ohio couple and another man who were accused of kidnapping the woman’s older sister from her dilapidated Pittsburgh home will get probation after prosecutors dropped the most serious charges.

Police say an Ohio man arrested in a child-sex investigation has pleaded not guilty to six felony charges, including rape.

A man wanted in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, on 14 warrants was arrested Wednesday after he crashed into a police car and tried to run from the scene, according to Stuttgart police.

A former Toledo lawyer who made up a story about being kidnapped after a client accused her of taking his money has been sentenced to four years in prison for stealing from her clients.

In the hours after he killed the mother of his child, Vincent George Brown Jr. recorded an eerie greeting on his cell phone and went to a party in East Tampa, driving the murder victim’s car, police said Friday.

SWAT pulls a man and a woman out of a home in the 300 block of South Powell Avenue Monday morning.

Grove City police makes an arrest after two suspects allegedly robbed a local restaurant at gunpoint and took patrons and employees hostage.