A new state law that allows margaritas, merlots and other wines and liquor to be sold two hours earlier on Sundays at thousands of Ohio businesses is getting a warm welcome from the restaurant industry but a cool reception from a group that works to reduce drunken driving.

A law meant to protect schoolchildren from safety hazards is now off the books in Ohio.

A three-vehicle crash sends five people, including a baby, to local hospitals Wednesday night.

An Indian tribe tells state regulators that plans to build a commercial wind farm in western Ohio pose a threat to an ancient burial mound and steps must be taken to protect it.

One of today’s winners of the 2009 Nobel Prize in chemistry earned a Ph.D. from Ohio University.

The family of Ohio’s oldest woman says she has died at age 110.

A blue-collar Cleveland neighborhood has had a glitzy feel for the comeback of a vaudeville-era theater renovated for $7.5 million.

The Ohio Turnpike is trying to work out bugs in its new E-ZPass electronic toll payment system.

Ohio’s lowest paid workers won’t be up for a raise next year.

A historic Kansas city police docket with references to Wild West lawmen Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson is one legal step closer to being returned to Dodge City.

An 80-year-old man is rescued after spending more than five hours trapped in a septic tank.

More than 100 registered sex offenders live in Ohio’s nursing homes, which aren’t required to inform other residents of their presence because of a gap in state law, a newspaper reported Sunday.

Conservationists are trying to connect a state forest in southern Ohio with a nearby nature preserve to create the largest block of protected woodland in the state.

The chairwoman of the Athens County Democratic Party has been indicted on charges of money laundering and theft.

An Ohio woman who had the wrong embryo implanted by a fertility clinic has given birth to a boy.