The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday cut back on early voting in Ohio by preventing people from casting in-person ballots this week in the lead-up to the Nov. 4 midterm elections.
Lake Forest, Illinois-based pharmaceutical firm Hospira Inc claimed in a statement that the company will not be able to guarantee that a US prison will not be able to obtain its drugs to be used for capital punishment despite the fact that it is objecting to its use, a report by The Associated Press said.
Ohio police said that Reshad Riddle killed his father, Richard with a single shot from a handgun on Sunday afternoon at the Hawatha Church of God in Crist in the city of Ashtabula after an Easter service on Sunday. The 25-year-old son reportedly was yelling about God and Allah after the killing.
Two students and members of the Steubenville High School football team, Trent Mays and Ma'Lik Richmond were found guilty Sunday of raping a drunken 16-year-old girl during series of end of summer parties on August 11, 2012, the Associate Press reported. They were sentenced to at least a year in juvenile jail.
Police Captain Joel Walker testified on Tuesday about finding two photos of a nude girl on a cell phone belong ing to a 17-year old boy accused of rape along with another teenage in Steubenville, Ohio.
Two teens narrowly escaped a car crash that killed six of their friends, in Northeast Ohio on Sunday.
The inside of the sport utility vehicle was entirely under water within minutes of the crash, said State Highway Patrol Lt. Brian Holt. Investigators remain puzzled why eight were in the speeding vehicle "without permission when it smashed into a guardrail and flipped over into the pond Sunday morning around daybreak."
Frederick Teesh, who fatally shot an adult bookstore security guard at the end of a multi state crime spree nearly 20 years ago, was pronounced dead after a single powerful dose of pentobarbital.
Jury selection began on Tuesday in Akron, Ohio for the trial of Richard Beasley, charged in the murders of three men, two of whom were lured by a Craigslist ad for a non-existent job,
