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Utility giant FirstEnergy Corp. will reevaluate the company’s previous denial…that it used customer money to fund a $60 million bribery scheme…to win legislative approval of a $1 billion bailout for two unprofitable nuclear power plants in Ohio. The Akron-based company issued a notice to the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio …

Ohio doesn’t plan to mandate masks in schools this fall, but health officials strongly recommend students and staff wear face coverings…if they aren’t vaccinated against COVID-19. Some of Ohio’s largest districts, including Columbus and Cleveland, already decided to require masks for everyone when the school year begins. Others are still …

A semi crashes into a minivan, killing a woman and injuring 5 others, in Williams County. Officials tell reporters a Wyoming man was driving a minivan northbound on State Route 101…when he stopped at the stop sign at State Route 34. Officials say he then pulled forward from the stop …

Four years after a carnival ride’s corroded steel arm snapped and flung a high school student to his death at the Ohio State Fair, the state is tightening its oversight of amusement rides. Inspectors are conducting more mandatory checks for rust and metal fatigue and increasingly flagging rides for repairs…during …

A three-day celebration of what would have been John Glenn’s 100th birthday…begins in his birthplace and childhood hometown in Ohio, even as additional events were announced to mark the occasion. It all took place in Cambridge, where Glenn was born on July 18, 1921, and nearby New Concord, where he …

A Fremont man loses part of his leg…after his motorcycle is sideswiped in a three vehicle crash, near County Road 125 East. Investigators say the rider, Cody Ormsbee, was trying to turn left onto 125 East from 120, when he is hit by Ericka Pillitiere. She later told deputies she …

he energy giant at the center of a $60 million bribery scheme in Ohio admits to using dark money groups to fund the effort…and agrees to pay $230 million dollars and other conditions…so prosecutors won’t forge ahead with a criminal case against the company. Authorities charged Akron-based FirstEnergy Corp. with …

President, Biden was in Cincinnati…to push his economic policies. It’s the third visit of his presidency to Ohio, the only state he lost that he has visited multiple times. Ohio Republicans, for their part, see the presidential attention as a chance to make the case against Democrats. The state faces …

A pair of Ohio teens are hurt…after a car crashes into a tree over the weekend in Steuben County. Deputies are dispatched to US 20, near County Road 935 East, in rural York Township. When they get there…they see a vehicle…up against a tree on the south side of the …

A Bryan man faces assault and aggravated menacing charges…after officials tell reporters a dispute got out of hand. Gavin Lloyd, 22, of Bryan, apparently threatened to cause serious bodily harm to one female subject by using a weed wacker and a push lawn mower…then he threatens to murder another person…while …