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.

"If I'm seeing this in this town, somebody else has to be seeing this. It was odd. It wasn't an airplane. It was just out of the ordinary," Mittwede explained.

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.

A Philadelphia jury has awarded $11 million to a man whose holstered Sig Sauer pistol went off by itself while he was going down the stairs.

An explosion at an Ohio home killed two people, left another hospitalized with burns and sent debris flying through a neighborhood.

A man wanted in West Virginia on a federal weapons charge was shot and killed at an Ohio motel during a standoff with police that also left one officer wounded.

A man who was 15 when he was involved in gunbattle outside a high school football game that set off a chain of events that ended with the shooting death of an 8-year-old girl has been sentenced to 14 to 28 years in prison.

About 1,100 workers at the Stellantis Jeep factory in Toledo, Ohio, are facing layoffs early next year as the company takes further steps to cut high inventory at dealers.

The late Jo Ann Davidson, Ohio's first and only female House speaker, has been eulogized at the Ohio Statehouse for blazing trails for women with grit, grace and a guiding spirit.

PepsiCo says it plans to close four U.S. bottling plants and lay off nearly 400 workers as part of its efforts to streamline its operations.

The late Jo Ann Davidson is set to lie in state at the Ohio Statehouse ahead of a public memorial service.

Both candidates focused on earning votes in the Mahoning Valley as the race for Senate draws closer.  

Federal agents searched the Ohio home of a prominent real estate developer who owns affordable housing properties and senior living centers across 26 states.

A county elections board is deadlocked about whether a Democratic member of Congress from Ohio resides in her Akron district.

An Ohio man charged with first-degree murder in the fatal stabbing of a couple at an Interstate 80 rest stop in Nebraska has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity.

A freelance journalist who was handcuffed after refusing to stop filming the scene of a deadly car crash has sued the city of Cincinnati and the officer.

Former Abercrombie & Fitch CEO Mike Jeffries, his romantic partner and a third man have been arrested on sex trafficking and interstate prostitution charges.

The family of a Black man killed when eight Ohio officers fired 94 bullets at him after he shot a round out his window during a police chase will receive a $4.8 million settlement from the city of Akron.

Elon Musk has brought his support for Republican Donald Trump to the Philadelphia suburbs for a town hall and encouraged Pennsylvania voters to register to cast their ballots and vote early.

The U.S. Justice Department will send election monitors to an Ohio county where a sheriff was recently accused of intimidating voters in a social media post.

Two men who were shot during the first assassination attempt on Donald Trump this summer say the U.S. Secret Service failed in protecting the former president and other bystanders at the campaign rally in Pennsylvania.