A judge in a northwest Ohio city has found a pastor guilty on criminal charges for failing to comply with the city’s fire code after he opened his church and let homeless people and others to stay inside overnight.

U.S. defense contractor Anduril Industries is preparing to build a massive advanced manufacturing facility in central Ohio.

Efforts to ban students' cellphones at school is gaining rare bipartisan consensus in Republican and Democrat-led states.

Many colleges accused of tolerating antisemitism on their campuses have been settling with federal civil rights investigators in the weeks before the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump, who urged a tougher response to campus protests against the war in Gaza.

A Democratic state representative’s health problems could complicate the vote for speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.

A man fatally shot last month as authorities attempted to serve him an indictment on federal gun charges has been identified as the killer of an 18-year-old Ohio woman whose beating death had gone unsolved for 43 years.

A Pennsylvania court says the secretary of state has the authority to direct counties not to allow “unauthorized third party access” to voting machines or risk having those machines decertified and unable to be deployed for elections.

The Associated Press has learned that the federal Bureau of Prisons is permanently closing its “rape club” women’s prison in California and will idle six facilities in a sweeping realignment after years of abuse, decay and mismanagement.

A prosecutor in Ohio is seeking to exonerate four men convicted three decades ago in the beating death of a woman.

Penn State has won a closely watched trademark fight over an online retailer’s use of its vintage logos and images.