Ariel Castro — the Ohio man accused of kidnapping, imprisoning, and repeatedly raping Gina DeJesus, Amanda Berry and Michelle Knight — is allegedly in talks regarding a plea deal that would rule out the death penalty. There's a chance he'll accept the deal during a Friday pre-trial hearing. Read… 7/26/13 12:00am 7/26/13 12:00am

An Ohio man who loves summer, like, more than a friend, was charged with public indecency after several children witnessed him having sex with a pool toy this week. How does that even work? What is going on? Read… 7/10/13 5:45pm 7/10/13 5:45pm

A friend posted this gem on Facebook... it made me laughcry. Read on Groupthink 7/08/13 10:00pm 7/08/13 10:00pm

35 Ohio House Republicans introduced an exhaustive anti-abortion bill yesterday that would require doctors to lie to women and force them to pay for unnecessary medical procedures, among other fun doctor-patient trust exercises. Read… 6/14/13 1:20pm 6/14/13 1:20pm

Anna Louise Inn opened its doors to ambitious and independent women in Cincinnati looking to start their careers and lives in 1909. Situated in the historic Lytle Park neighborhood, the dormitory-like building has classic, Federal and Victorian style architecture and is surrounded by plenty of green lawns. For the… Read… 5/20/13 4:15pm 5/20/13 4:15pm

Zombies and fetuses have been hot in 2012, so it makes perfect sense that the Ohio Senate would try to make that state cool again by combining the two into one terribly stupid political maneuver. The so-called "Heartbeat Bill," which proposed banning abortion from the moment a fetal heartbeat could be detected, would… Read… 11/27/12 6:15pm 11/27/12 6:15pm

Fresh off a historical electoral spanking that came courtesy of a female and non-white majority electorate, many Republicans are licking their wounds, wondering what went wrong, and how they can fix it. Maybe don't say so much horrible shit about rape next time? Maybe don't assume that everyone hates Mexicans as much… Read… 11/09/12 12:00pm 11/09/12 12:00pm

150,000 swingers — like, the sex kind — live in Ohio, one of the nation's most crucial swing states. The Daily's Justin Rocket Silverman decided to take advantage of that double entendre and interview open-minded folks at two of the state's swingers clubs about sex and politics. Enjoy. Read… 10/08/12 7:15pm 10/08/12 7:15pm

Bad news, guys: it doesn't always get better, if the middle school-worthy drama that's going on in Ohio's Hocking County courtroom is anything to go by. Read… 10/05/12 12:20pm 10/05/12 12:20pm

What did you do this weekend? I went out one night, I stayed in one night, I watched all of Season 2 of Portlandia, made some peach cobbler, and even had an impromptu dance party at a colleague's house. But the highlight of a pretty stellar weekend was staring at this picture of Joe Biden nuzzling a biker woman's ear… Read… 9/10/12 10:40am 9/10/12 10:40am

What did you spend your weekend doing? Drinking? Sleeping? Drunk-sleeping? Yardwork? Well, whatever it was, it probably wasn't quite as thrilling as what two great-grandmothers from Ohio got up to. The women both went skydiving for the first time to raise money for a local Blue Star Mothers of America chapter and its… Read… 6/25/12 11:50am 6/25/12 11:50am

It's the sort of thing that's straight out of an episode of a show entirely too earnest for network TV: an Ohio high school track star, mere feet from finishing her second race at the state meet, sees a runner in front of her fall. But rather than pass her and speed to the finish line, she stops, picks up her… Read… 6/06/12 4:45pm 6/06/12 4:45pm

With the Republican-controlled state Senate refusing to even consider the measure, Ohio's so-called "Heartbeat Bill" has effectively flatlined. But that hasn't stopped rabid anti-abortion demonstrators from flooding the Capitol and throwing a Holy Tantrum, claiming that laws that contradict Biblical law are… Read… 5/22/12 3:10pm 5/22/12 3:10pm

Franciscan University of Steubenville in Ohio has made the very interesting choice to stop offering health insurance coverage to its students come this fall rather than have to comply with the federal mandate that says its insurance plan must provide free contraception. The university said in a statement, Read… 5/17/12 10:50am 5/17/12 10:50am

In October of 2011, exotic pet owner Terry Thompson released all of his animals from their enclosures before taking his own life, leading to the tragic killing of over 48 animals by Zanesville, Ohio police. The 5 surviving animals — two leopards, a bear and two primates — have since been held in state-issued quarantine … Read… 5/04/12 2:20pm 5/04/12 2:20pm

After a long night of being too close to call, Ohio has finally been declared a Romney win. Mittens also clinched his adopted home state of Massachusetts, as well as Vermont, Virginia, and Idaho. But it wasn't the total momentum-building success he was hoping for. Rick Santorum took Tennessee, Oklahoma, and North… Discuss… 3/07/12 12:30am 3/07/12 12:30am

Animal rights activists have been known to do some pretty crazy stuff, but this stunt might take the cake. Meredith Marie Lowell, a 27-year-old from Ohio, was arrested yesterday by the FBI after she tried to hire a hit man on Facebook. And who exactly was her target? Oh, you know, just any ol' person who happened to be … Read… 2/22/12 10:30pm 2/22/12 10:30pm

In June of 2011, a Cincinnati woman was granted a temporary order of protection against her husband, who was found guilty of domestic abuse. In November of 2011, that abusive dickwad posted wrote a nasty, passive aggressive Facebook post about his estranged wife. And now, a judge has ruled that the post violated the… Read… 2/22/12 7:15pm 2/22/12 7:15pm