Ohio News

Columbus - Open enrollment is underway for Ohio employer-based health insurance and a growing number of employees are seeing their premiums soar.

Bellefontaine - A poor, mentally disabled Ohio woman is facing up to six months in jail and a $1,000 fine for taking less than $3 in loose change from a public fountain, money she says she needs to buy food.

Cleveland - Thirteen officers fired over 130 rounds at two unarmed passengers after mistaking a backfiring car for gunshots, in what some say was a racially motivated shooting.

An Ohio man who was declared dead after disappearing in 1986 cannot now be declared officially alive. A judge found that three years after a person has been declared dead the rulings cannot be overturned if that person reappears.

Lucasville - It's a good news, bad news scenario. Ohio got to kill a guy last night. And he had a killin' coming if you believe in capital punishment.

Ohio corrections officials said Ariel Castro, the man who held three women captive in his home for nearly a decade, has committed suicide at a state prison facility.

A bank reportedly wrongfully repossessed an Ohio woman's home. The homeowner had been out of town and came back to find the locks changed and all her possessions gone.

In a statement released Tuesday, NOAA predicted that portions of western Lake Erie near the coasts of Ohio, Michigan, and Ontario are likely to see a harmful algal bloom develop over the summer.

Cincinnati - An Ohio man convicted last month based on the blinking statement of a paralyzed shooting victim to identify his shooter was sentenced Thursday to 36 years to life in prison.

North Ridgeville - The Ohio Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (OSPCA) is pushing for animal cruelty charges against a North Ridgeville, Ohio police officer Barry Accorti, after he shot and killed five kittens.