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…

A Planned Parenthood in Columbus, Ohio, was vandalized Sunday night, with red paint splashed on the door and graffiti calling the facility a “Satan den of babykillers.” It also featured a Bible verse suggesting its employees deserve to be cast into the sea with millstones around their necks.

I’ve heard that Margaret Shilling was deaf. I’ve heard that she was unable to speak, to call for help. I’ve heard that she was playing hide-and-go-seek, and I’ve heard that she just wanted to die. She has been called Ohio’s most notorious ghost, the lost lady. Teenagers have prayed to her, broken into a building for…

Ohio Governor John Kasich, who defunded Planned Parenthood yesterday, said Monday morning at a town hall in Virginia that he got elected governor to the state Senate because women “came out of their kitchens to support me.” Oh?

In the midst of getting lightly trounced and nationally embarrassed in the presidential election, Ohio Governor John Kasich still found a moment to be awful in his home state, signing a bill on Sunday that strips $1.7 million from Planned Parenthood. The money went to preventative care and sex ed.

Which is a really sweet gesture.

Ohio Governor John Kasich probably isn’t going to be president, unless you’re part of the roughly two percent of the Republican voting public who want him to be president and you’re very persuasive. But that doesn’t make it any less hilarious that a man running for that office would hear the words “Oregon militia”…

On Monday, an Ohio grand jury decided not to bring charges against the two officers, Timothy Loehmann and Frank Garmback, captured on camera fatally shooting 12-year-old Tamir Rice in 2014.

Republican lawmakers in Ohio are planning on introducing legislation that would require women who have undergone abortions at clinics or been treated for a miscarriage to sign a form designating burial or cremation of the fetal remains.

Planned Parenthood affiliates in Ohio filed a lawsuit Sunday against the state, arguing that the state Attorney General is trying to restrict safe and legal abortion access. AG Mike DeWine’s office announced in a press release Friday that an investigation had found that PP disposes of aborted fetuses in landfills, an…

Ohio man and possessor of solid priorities Jasen Dixon say he’s facing fines of $500 per day for the enormous zombie nativity scene in his front yard. Dixon was denied a permit for the zombie manger, put it up anyway, and now faces the wrath of local authorities and angry Baptists.

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Yesterday, we wrote about presidential candidate John Kasich’s abysmal record on reproductive rights in Ohio. Today, FiveThirtyEight published a great article breaking down the facts: since entering office in 2011, Kasich has signed into law all 16 anti-abortion measures introduced, and under his watch, just under…