Matthew Richmond

Walker, a 25-year-old Black man, was shot and killed by Akron police following a car chase early Monday.

Ohio gun owners will no longer have to apply with a sheriff to carry a concealed gun in public.

The state will buy nine new machines that can test and compare ammunition casings to a national database.

The Cleveland office of the FBI is investigating several Cleveland police detectives and their direct supervisor for “inappropriate conduct.” The city of Cleveland released a statement saying the alleged misconduct was found after an internal investigation.

President Joe Biden visited Northeast Ohio Thursday to announce $1 billion in funding for Great Lakes cleanup and restoration.

One year after the Jan. 6 storming of the U.S. Capitol, 35 people allegedly involved in the riot have been arrested in Ohio so far. The defendants arrested in Ohio are charged in federal court with trespassing and property damage, obstructing official business and violently entering the Capitol. A few were charged with more serious crimes.

Emanuel Franklin, whose son Desmond was killed by a Cleveland police officer on April 9, 2020, said Monday he hopes the lawsuit his family filed in Cuyahoga County leads to a prison sentence for the officer, who was not disciplined by the city and not indicted by a county grand jury.

A Cleveland-based advocacy group has spent years building a case that police officers around Ohio are violating state law simply by continuing to serve as officers because many police departments are not in compliance with the state's training requirements.

“Old law inmates,” or those who committed their crimes before Ohio changed the parole board system in 1996, have little success in their parole board hearings.

Shontel Brown will next face Laverne Gore, who won the GOP primary. The winner will replace former Rep. Marcia Fudge, who now heads the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.