In a two sentence statement, Ohio Supreme Court Justice Sharon Kennedy said that she will not recuse herself in a contentious abortion case that could close Toledo’s only abortion clinic.
One woman was killed and eight others—including three children—were wounded at a gender reveal party in Ohio on Saturday night, and police have yet to arrest any suspects.
On Tuesday, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality issued a report on opioid-related inpatient care and emergency room visits. Between 2005 and 2014, the rate of these visits increased by 99 percent.
Ohio police caught a divorce lawyer named Michael Fine taking advantage of clients he hypnotized to sexually assault them before meetings in November of 2014.
Earlier this month Ohio Governor John Kasich vetoed the so-called Heartbeat Bill, a measure that, if signed, would have banned all abortions after a fetal heartbeat could be detected. The law, sponsored by a fringe anti-choice group who broke from the more “mainstream” Ohio Right to Life to push the bill through a…
Ohio Governor John Kasich has vetoed the so-called Heartbeat Bill, which would have banned abortion after a fetal heartbeat could be detected (roughly five to six weeks of gestation). The veto, however, is no victory for abortion rights in Ohio. As predicted, Kasich instead signed SB 127, a 20-week ban sponsored by…
Just ten days ago, the good people at the Satanic Temple declared that their members are exempt from Texas’ new rules on fetal burial, calling them “a punitive measure imposed by sadistic theocrats.” Now, they’re doing the same thing for Ohio’s proposed Heartbeat Bill, which would effectively ban all abortions after…
The Ohio legislature’s surprise decision to pass the so-called Heartbeat Bill, which, if signed by Governor John Kasich, would ban all abortion after roughly six weeks, has garnered a lot of outrage. But as Ohio was passing the Heartbeat Bill, they were also in the process of pushing through a 20-week ban sponsored by…
Did you know that bestiality is still legal in Ohio? And also in Vermont, Texas, West Virginia, Kentucky, Nevada, Hawaii, Wyoming, New Mexico, and Ohio? And Washington, DC? Help!
The Ohio legislature is currently pushing through two separate abortion restrictions bills that are vying to hit Governor John Kasich’s desk before the 2016 session comes to an end.
An 11-year-old Ohio girl who survived a brain tumor died by suicide in October after years of bullying by her classmates. Bethany Thompson had nerve damage after undergoing radiation treatments when she was just three years old. The treatments made her smile “crooked,” her mother says, which along with her curly hair…
In a Business Insider editorial published Sunday evening, NBA phenomenon and all-around delight LeBron James enthusiastically endorses Hillary Clinton for president.
Last week, the city of East Liverpool, Ohio, uploaded a pair of photographs to Facebook, taken of an adult couple nodding off on heroin with a 4-year-old child in the back of their car, along with the police report from the incident. The city presented it as a morality tale: “We feel it necessary to show the other…
Last week, Ohio attorney Andrea Burton was given five days in jail for contempt of court by Youngstown Municipal Court Judge Robert Milich when she refused to remove her “Black Lives Matter” pin. But he says it was an objective decision.
The Republican National Convention begins this week, and the Clinton campaign has planned accordingly. With social media as their primary weapon, Clinton’s staffers have enlisted politicians, organizations, and celebrities to troll Republicans and issue counterattacks whenever criticisms are lobbed at Clinton and the…
Authorities in Pike County, Ohio are still struggling to unravel a hideous mass shooting that took place Friday, when eight family members were shot to death at four different houses. The Ohio Attorney General said Sunday night that “marijuana grow operations” were found at three of the houses where the killings…
Eight members of the Rhoden family, who lived in a rural area in southern Ohio, were shot sometime during the night on Thursday, leaving three survivors.
Ohio teenager Marina Lonina, 18, faces a litany of charges after Franklin County prosecutors alleged that she streamed the rape of a 17-year-old friend on Periscope. Lonina was arraigned on Friday, April 15, along with accused rapist Raymond Boyd Gates, 29. Both were charged with kidnapping, rape, sexual battery and…
Izaha Akins, the hero Ohio teenager who pretended to be a state senator in order to achieve every teen’s dream of addressing a high school government class, has pleaded guilty to a felony charge. They got him on “impersonating a peace officer,” which doesn’t sound quite right.
Ohio Governor John Kasich, a man who is still more or less running for president, has made what little headway he’s attained by insisting that he’s a really nice guy, the only adult in the room, the best man for the job, etc. As a New York Times story today points out, that niceness is belied by anyone who’s ever met…
