Convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein's relationship to the rich and powerful has surfaced in congressional contests across the country.

Republicans are growing increasingly grim about their election chances in November.

Mortgage rates climbed for the fourth week in a row, driving the average long-term U.S. home loan rate to just below 7%, its highest level in over 19 months.

Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes declined in August to their slowest annual pace in more than a year as home shoppers grappled with rising mortgage rates and home prices.

A prosecutor says an armed man accused of charging toward Ohio gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton during a campaign stop at a fair and knocking down two people before troopers stopped him was trying to ask the Democrat questions.

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell has agreed on a four-year contract extension that runs through the 2030 league season, ending on March 31, 2031.

Jeremiah Smith had two highlight reel-worthy touchdown catches, Julian Sayin passed for 320 yards and three touchdowns, and top-ranked Ohio State tuned up for next week’s matchup against No. 5 Texas with a 56-3 rout of Ball State.

Carsynn Meyer, the first girl to play in the U.S. championship, had an RBI single to help Nevada beat Ohio 12-2 on Saturday and advance to the Little League World Baseball Series title game.

San Francisco 49ers owner Jed York used an alias when he sent text messages over two days to a woman he believed to be a prostitute before he was arrested in a sting operation in Ohio, according to a police incident report.

The Boerne Little League team had plenty of runners on base, but the team struggled to bring many of them home Monday afternoon.

San Francisco 49ers owner Jed York was arrested over the weekend in Ohio and pleaded no contest to misdemeanor charges of disorderly conduct and possessing criminal tools.

Serena Williams and Carlos Alcaraz will have to wait a little longer to learn their first opponent in the U.S. Open mixed doubles championship.

Gas station giant Buc-ee’s has sparked a backlash in Ohio over one of its frequent trademark infringement lawsuits.

Serena Williams will team up with Carlos Alcaraz to create a powerhouse mixed doubles pair in her return to the U.S. Open.

Vice President JD Vance has returned to his hometown to campaign for Republican candidates at a steel plant where his grandfather worked.

Venus Williams was given a wild card into the U.S. Open and the tournament is keeping one on hold — perhaps in case her sister Serena wants to join her.

Severe storms have wreaked havoc across the Midwest, causing tornadoes, heavy rains, and flash flooding.

Severe weather has cut power to over half a million people in the Chicago area, Indiana and Ohio.

Roger Craig revealed during his induction speech into the Pro Football Hall of Fame that he has been diagnosed with vascular dementia.

Republican Sen. Jon Husted of Ohio is calling on Rep. Max Miller to resign his House seat and abandon his fall reelection bid.

Ohio Rep. Marcy Kaptur is being treated for non-life threatening injuries after a car accident in Toledo.

Democrats are seeing a fresh opportunity for an upset in a northeast Ohio congressional seat.

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Honduran authorities have confirmed that four of the five people who drowned in an Ohio river over the weekend are Honduran citizens.

Authorities say five people have died on a river in Ohio after several of them went into the water to assist another person who was struggling to swim.

Friday night’s game between the Pittsburgh Pirates and Cleveland Guardians was postponed due to air quality concerns because of wildfire smoke from Canada and northern Minnesota.

Two of the eight men indicted in an alleged drone and sniper plot to attack President Donald Trump’s UFC cage-fighting event on the White House lawn have pleaded not guilty to federal conspiracy charges.

The discovery of 16 siblings who authorities say were held at a home for years in squalid conditions is straining their rural Ohio county’s resources as it works to prosecute their parents and two grandparents and address the needs of so many children at once.

Eight men have been indicted on murder and terrorism conspiracy charges for their alleged roles in a thwarted drone and sniper attack on the UFC cage-fighting show staged at the White House in June.

Michigan is experiencing its largest outbreak of a parasitic infection that causes severe diarrhea.

The discovery of 16 siblings living in deplorable conditions in rural Ohio has left people wondering why the life-threatening squalor wasn’t detected earlier.

Authorities say 16 children from the same family who were rescued from a run-down home in rural Ohio were living in horrific conditions and were confined to just one room over much of the past four years.

Kroger is buying regional grocer Giant Eagle in a deal valued at $1.65 billion.

Authorities have arrested four adults on felony child endangerment charges after discovering 16 children in need of medical treatment in a rural Ohio home.

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine is using his bully pulpit to call for an end to the death penalty in his state.

Gov. Mike DeWine says he believes Ohio should abolish the death penalty.

Pakistan announced that the U.S. and Iran reached an agreement to end the war and open the Strait of Hormuz.

Police investigating a shooting that wounded 12 people at a neighborhood street festival in Ohio have issued arrest warrants for one suspect and are trying to confirm the identity of another.

Police in Ohio are still searching for suspects who opened fire near a busy street festival in Toledo and wounded 12 people over the weekend.

Authorities say a shooting near a busy street festival in Ohio has wounded at least 12 people.

Ohio State University has agreed to pay approximately $100 million to settle hundreds of legal claims from former student athletes who said they were sexually abused decades ago by a doctor at the university.

Ohio is suspending a tax break that has been critical to its competition with other states to attract the massive new facilities that power and train artificial intelligence chatbots.

Investigators are looking into what caused a small plane to crash into a house in northeast Ohio on Thursday, explode into flames and kill two pilots aboard.

Legendary rock band “Journey” announced an extension to its farewell tour on Tuesday, which includes a stop in San Antonio, according to a news release.

Jurors in Ohio have convicted a former sheriff’s deputy of reckless homicide in the shooting of a Black man who was carrying sandwiches into his grandmother’s home.

Thirty former Ohio State football players, including some former NFL players, are agreeing to join a federal lawsuit against the university over the sexual abuse of student-athletes decades ago by a team doctor.

A jury has begun deliberating in the retrial of a former sheriff's deputy in Ohio charged with murder and reckless homicide in the fatal shooting of 23-year-old Casey Goodson Jr. in 2020.

President Donald Trump is having some success in his latest attempt to politically punish Republicans who stand in his way.

Candidates for Ohio’s top elected offices will stand before voters in a statewide primary on Tuesday, although many of them are already looking ahead to the November general election.

The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld the racketeering convictions of imprisoned former Republican Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder and ex-lobbyist Matt Borges in a $60 million bribery scheme.

Norfolk Southern railroad’s first-quarter profit fell 27% because it didn’t collect big insurance payments related to the East Palestine, Ohio, derailment and its planned merger with Union Pacific added to its costs.

More than two years after an Ohio judge declared a mistrial, a murder retrial has begun for a former Ohio sheriff’s deputy charged in the December 2020 killing of a Black man.

Nothing about Alex Ovechkin’s future is all that clear right now after the NHL’s career goal-scoring leader finished his 21st season.

Energy Secretary Chris Wright raised eyebrows Tuesday after saying the country “looks like we’re going in the wrong direction” in remarks hailing a new natural gas pipeline project.

The American Postal Workers Union is launching a national TV ad campaign promoting voting by mail.

A jury has deadlocked in the trial of two fired FirstEnergy Corp. executives charged for their roles in Ohio's $60 million bribery scandal.

The sight of travelers suffering through long security lines at U.S. airports this week have many people showing up way before their flights.

The Trump administration has opened investigations into how race is considered in admissions at three medical schools, ratcheting up its pressure campaign against colleges and universities.

The Whiskey Island salt mine in Cleveland is critically important to providing enough road salt to keep streets safe during the harsh winters of the Northeast and Great Lakes states.

Democrats are starting to treat Vice President JD Vance, not Donald Trump, as their number one focus among Republican leaders.

The U.S. Department of Energy has announced a public-private partnership with SoftBank and AEP Ohio to develop a massive artificial intelligence data center and power complex at a former uranium enrichment site in southern Ohio.

Meteorite hunters are combing Ohio for fragments of a space rock that streaked across the sky earlier this week.

The Grammy-nominated rapper Afroman has won a defamation lawsuit filed by seven Ohio sheriff’s deputies who sued him over music videos that used home security footage to mock them over a 2022 raid of his home.

Eian Elmer scored 23 points and Miami of Ohio beat SMU 89-79 in the First Four for its first NCAA Tournament victory in 27 years.

Tramon Mark hit a fadeaway jumper from just inside the 3-point line with 1.1 seconds left, and Texas survived a late rally to beat N.

Bryce Harris had 19 points and 14 rebounds, and he sank a turnaround jumper with 13 seconds remaining that sent Howard to its first NCAA Tournament victory in program history, 86-83 over UMBC in the First Four.

The men’s March Madness bracket is set, and Duke, Arizona, Michigan and Florida have claimed the four No. 1 seeds in the tournament.

No. 20 Miami (Ohio) dropped its Mid-American Conference Tournament opener to UMass 87-83, spoiling the last perfect record in Division I men’s basketball.

Ohio State has moved past the abrupt resignation of the university’s president by elevating its chief academic officer into the role.

Ohio State President Walter “Ted” Carter Jr. has resigned abruptly after disclosing “an inappropriate relationship” with a person who was seeking public resources for her business.

Pete Suder scored 19 points, Antowne Woolfolk added 14 and No. 19 Miami (Ohio) closed within a victory of a perfect regular season with a 74-72 win over Toledo that extended the RedHawks’ season-opening winning streak to 30 games.

Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, has started checking literacy skills during pediatric visits for kids as young as 3.

It’s a tale as old as time, or at least as old as TikTok: chicken nuggets lovingly topped with a dab of caviar.

The $4.3 million that Akron-based FirstEnergy paid veteran utility lawyer Sam Randazzo in 2019 is at the center of another criminal trial tied to Ohio's sweeping $60 million bribery scandal.

A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from ending temporary protections that have allowed roughly 350,000 Haitians to live and work in the United States.

A video alleging fraud in Somali-run child care centers in Minneapolis has drawn attention throughout the United States.

The NHL has postponed the Columbus Blue Jackets’ home game against the Los Angeles Kings on Monday night because of a major winter storm that created dangerous travel conditions across much of the United States.

Vice President JD Vance says he came to Minneapolis to help “lower the temperature” in the city.

When you think IMAX, chances are your mind goes to those immersive documentaries that take you inside volcanoes, deep under oceans or to distant planets.

A Chicago doctor has been charged with the murders of his ex-wife and her dentist husband in Ohio.

Michael McKee was charged in connection with the murders of his ex-wife and her husband, according to court and county records.

Facebook parent Meta has reached nuclear power deals with three companies as it continues to look for electricity sources for its artificial intelligence data centers.

An individual accused of vandalizing the Ohio home of Vice President JD Vance and causing other property damage is behind bars pending a Friday hearing.

The U.S. Secret Service says a man who broke windows at Vice President JD Vance’s Ohio home and caused other property damage has been detained.

Ryan Day will call the offensive plays for Ohio State during the College Football Playoff.

A major snowstorm in the Midwest and Great Lakes is affecting Thanksgiving travelers.

Norfolk Southern railroad worked with the state of Ohio and Youngstown State University to revive plans for a $20 million first responder training center near the site of the worst derailment in a decade in East Palestine, Ohio.

An Ohio officer has been acquitted of all charges after fatally shooting Ta'Kiya Young in a supermarket parking lot.

Rock band Three Days Grace announced a stop in San Antonio for their 2026 world tour, according to a news release.

Salman Rushdie is among those being honored at the Dayton Literary Peace Prize event in Ohio.

Ohio State received top billing in the first College Football Playoff rankings of the season, followed by Indiana, Texas A&M and Alabama.

Julian Sayin passed for 316 yards and four touchdowns as top-ranked Ohio State defeated Penn State 38-14.

Nine couples got married on Halloween inside a former county jail in central Ohio that was decorated for the holiday.

Ohio's Republican-led redistricting commission has unveiled a new U.S. House map that could give Republicans a chance to win two more seats in next year's elections.

General Motors is laying off about 1,700 workers across manufacturing sites in Michigan and Ohio, as the auto giant adjusts to slowing demand for electric vehicles.

Alex Ovechkin scored his 899th career goal and added an assist, and the Washington Capitals beat the Columbus Blue Jackets 3-1.

Limp Bizkit band members say bass player Sam Rivers died on Saturday.

The attorneys general of more than a dozen states on Thursday sued the Trump administration over the termination of $7 billion in funding intended for affordable solar energy projects across the U.S. The coalition argued in the lawsuit that the Environmental Protection Agency’s cancellation of the Solar for All program violated federal law governing federal agencies and constitutional doctrine on separation of powers.

A federal judge has temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s administration from firing workers during the government shutdown, saying the human cost "cannot be tolerated.”.

A baby eastern black rhino has made its debut at Cleveland Metroparks Zoo, giving a boost to efforts to conserve the endangered species.