Before this week it had been over 33 months since the last tornado touched down in Northwest Ohio and Southeast Michigan.  

Comments Authorities today continued to assess damage from two large thunderstorms that spawned several tornadoes, damaging buildings, trees, and power lines in northwest Ohio on Wednesday.

Ohio's toll road, a heavily traveled connector between the East Coast and Chicago, is moving closer to allowing the testing of self-driving vehicles. Testing is likely to begin within 12 months.

Gov. John Kasich signed bills allowing people to break into vehicles to save children or pets and to allow emergency personnel to treat cats and dogs.

A diary from the sidelines of America, outside the Republican National Convention. By Matt Pearce.

Dayton was once a bastion of the GOP establishment. The story of how the city changed helps explain the rise of Donald Trump. By Alec McGillis.

Ninety-two years ago a tornado ripped through downtown Lorain and Sandusky, killing 85 people and causing tens of millions dollars damage, more than a billion dollars in today's dollars. It is the deadliest tornado in Ohio history,

The city on Monday reached a $6 million settlement in a lawsuit over the death of Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old black boy shot by a white police officer while playing with a pellet gun outside a recreation center.

A white Ohio woman sued a sperm bank in federal court on Friday for mistakenly giving her, and her white same-sex partner, sperm from an African-American donor, court documents showed. Jennifer Cramblett of rural Uniontown in northeastern Ohio filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Chicago claiming fraud, misconduct and negligence on the part of Midwest Sperm Bank because of the sperm it used to inseminate her in December 2011, according to the complaint.

An 18-year-old Ohio high school student pleaded not guilty Friday to using a social media app to livestream the rape of her 17-year-old friend. Marina Lonina told police she recorded the assault on Periscope in an effort to build evidence, and her attorney said the teen was trying to get her friend out of the house where the alleged attack occurred. Lonina faces charges including rape, kidnapping, sexual battery and pandering sexual...

Ohio lawmakers will consider adding a new exception to the state's indoor smoking ban in a proposal that would allow smoking at more private clubs.

The man known to many simply as the “Shawshank fugitive” for his 56 years on the run from an infamous Ohio correctional facility was cleared for release by a parole board this week. Frank Freshwaters, 79, escaped from the Ohio State Reformatory in 1959, after serving two years for parole violation in a manslaughter case. The reformatory was later immortalized as the filming location for the 1994 drama The Shawshank Redemption...

Back in March, a few of us here at the magazine got e-mails from friends who had seen an intriguing item listed on eBay. “1930s stripper/dancer scrapbook—Cincinnati,” the posting announced, “Jean Harlow’s double.” So we bought it. But who was she? By RJ Smith.

Gov. John Kasich signed legislation Sunday to strip government money from PlannedParenthood in Ohio, a day after the Republican presidential contender’s weak performance in his party’s South Carolina primary.

A teenager posing as a state senator toured a high school and spoke to a class, and school officials didn't realize they were fooled until weeks later, authorities in Ohio said. Mohawk Local School District officials said Izaha Akins, of Marion, Ohio, visited the high school in December and...

During the past decade, doctors in Ohio and across the country have left independent practice in droves in favor of the dependability of employment, often with hospitals. But for that stability, doctors often must relinquish many freedoms, including the ability to practice medicine wherever and whenever they choose. By Ben Sutherly.

Every point scored in an NFL game since 1941 has been with a Wilson football.

Park officials are hoping Cedar Point is one of two Cedar Fair properties chosen to debut the new ride technology, in which coaster riders wear virtual-reality headsets that display 3-D action with themed storylines.

North Korea says it has arrested a US student on charges of committing a "hostile act"