COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The families of two black people fatally shot by city police renewed their requests Tuesday for independent investigations into the officers’ actions while describing the emotional toll of losing their loved ones. Relatives of Tyre King, 13, and Henry Green, 23, sought to define them beyond details released in police records. Green was “a typical kid” …

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Dozens of demonstrators protesting the fatal police shooting of a 13-year-old black boy brought a city council meeting to a halt Monday in Columbus as they called for an independent investigation. Police have said Tyre King was shot multiple times on Sept. 14 after he ran from a white officer investigating a reported armed robbery and …

OXFORD, Ohio (AP) — A linguist at a southwest Ohio college has been named a MacArthur Fellow and will receive the so-called “genius grant” to continue his work to restore use of an indigenous language. Miami University Professor Daryl Baldwin is among the 2016 recipients of the fellowship awarded to individuals every year by the John D. and Catherine T. …

BELLEVUE, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio woman and her husband have died in a two-vehicle crash in northwest Ohio. Troopers from the State Highway Patrol post in Fremont say the crash occurred Wednesday morning in York Township in Sandusky County. The patrol says a car driven by 81-year-old Lucille Lepley, of Bellevue, failed to yield at an intersection and was …

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A Republican state lawmaker from northwest Ohio plans to resign in two weeks to work for the Ohio Chamber of Commerce. The Ohio House speaker says Rep. Jeff McClain, of Upper Sandusky, will resign Oct. 2. He’s taking a job as the director of tax and economic policy for the chamber of commerce. McClain is in …

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Long stuck in the shadow of sister cities Cleveland and Cincinnati, Columbus is Ohio’s city on the rise. Cranes dot the skyline, rising above blocks of new downtown condos. The population has been booming for years, while the numbers in the state’s other major cities have fallen or remained steady. But as it grows, Columbus also …

NEWTOWN, Ohio (AP) — The veteran police chief in a bucolic Ohio village, where the last murder was two decades ago and he can just about count the number of drug cases on both hands, finds himself in the spotlight on the front lines against heroin overdoses in one of the nation’s hardest-hit states. Thomas Synan Jr., of Newtown, with …

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The fatal police shooting of a 13-year-old Columbus boy who officers said pulled a BB gun from his waistband that looked like a real weapon will be investigated thoroughly to determine if charges are warranted. In a killing with unavoidable echoes of the Tamir Rice case out of Cleveland, a Columbus officer responding to a report …

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A police officer responding to a reported armed robbery shot and killed a 13-year-old boy when the teen pulled a firearm from his waistband that was later determined to be a BB gun, police said Thursday. The shooting happened around nightfall Wednesday in an alley east of downtown Columbus after a short foot chase. Columbus police …

LIMA, Ohio (AP) — FBI agents have searched a northwest Ohio sheriff’s office but aren’t disclosing what they were looking at or why. FBI Special Agent Vicki Anderson says agents conducted an investigation in Allen County on Wednesday but she can’t yet share details. She says no one was arrested. The Lima News reports Allen County Sheriff Sam Crish wasn’t …