COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio has yet to outline how exactly its new medical marijuana law will work even as it is set to take effect Thursday, leaving a host of unanswered questions by doctors, patients, pharmacists, police and many others. Rules for producing, prescribing and distributing cannabis to eligible patients are expected to take up to a year to …

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio man has been sentenced to 13 years in prison for causing a crash that killed two pedestrians when he recklessly drove his pickup truck into a school bus that hit the man and woman. Terrance Trent of Whitehall in suburban Columbus was found guilty last month of two counts of aggravated vehicular homicide in …

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Accidental drug overdoses killed 3,050 people in Ohio last year, an average of eight per day, as deaths blamed on the powerful painkiller fentanyl again rose sharply and pushed the total overdose fatalities to a record high, the state reported Thursday. Over one-third of those deaths — 1,155 — were fentanyl-related, which more than doubled from …

FREMONT, Ohio (AP) — A sheriff who is up for re-election this fall pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges he stole medications from prescription drug disposal drop boxes, deceived doctors into giving him painkillers and misused department funds. Sandusky County Sheriff Kyle Overmyer faces six felony charges in a 43-count indictment released Tuesday night. Overmyer, 42, wore handcuffs and an …

BELLEFONTAINE, Ohio (AP) — A western Ohio man who admitted that he fatally shot a teenager while hosting a drinking party has been sentenced to five years in prison. Twenty-year-old Evan Hoffman, of Bloom Center, pleaded guilty last month to reckless homicide and was sentenced Monday. Investigators have said Hoffman told them he shot the 16-year-old Jackson Center boy in …

WAVERLY, Ohio (AP) — The Ohio attorney general says whoever killed eight members from the same family in Ohio were familiar with the victims, their homes and the surrounding area.

ASHTABULA, Ohio (AP) — A northeast Ohio sheriff says an armed robbery suspect was fatally shot by deputies because he refused to show his hands and “brandished” a handgun.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Gas prices around Ohio are down slightly heading into the workweek. The average price for a gallon of regular gas in Ohio was $2.09 in Monday’s survey from auto club AAA, the Oil Price Information Service and WEX Inc. That’s down 6 cents from a week ago and 10 cents below the average reported a month …

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Public health officials in central Ohio have declared a community outbreak of a diarrheal disease caused by a parasite. Columbus Public Health Spokesman Jose Rodriguez says at least 107 cases of cryptosporidiosis have been reported in Columbus, Franklin and Delaware counties this year, more than the previous three years combined. The outbreak is being linked to …

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio troopers seized about seven times as much heroin during the first half of 2016 as they did during the same period last year, an increase that the State Highway Patrol attributes at least in part to several large drug busts. The patrol seized over 53 kilograms of heroin with an estimated value of nearly $8 …