DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio college student still faces trial next month after his arrest for rushing the stage at a Donald Trump rally.

CINCINNATI (AP) — A coroner’s report released Tuesday showed new details of vicious violence in the shooting deaths of eight members of a rural southern Ohio family, finding most victims were shot three to nine times each and some of them were bruised.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — As the investigation into the killings of eight family members in rural Ohio entered its fifth day, more details slowly trickled out. Pike County Prosecutor Rob Junk told the Columbus Dispatch Monday that the marijuana operations discovered at three of the four crime scenes included a grow-house sheltering hundreds of plants. “It wasn’t just somebody sitting …

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Medical marijuana will be legalized in Ohio by summer, state representatives pledged Wednesday, calling their legislative effort more responsible and comprehensive than any ballot proposal. The Ohio legislation comes as the national Marijuana Policy Project pursues a medical marijuana issue for the state’s fall ballot. Polling during a more sweeping ballot campaign that failed last year …

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio police officer died two days after he was critically wounded when a man opened fire on a SWAT team trying to arrest him for allegedly setting his estranged wife’s house ablaze, officials said. Columbus police said Officer Steven M. Smith died late Tuesday afternoon, surrounded by his family. He was 54 years old. Lincoln …

TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — A federal judge sentenced two men to prison on Monday for taking part in a scheme to smuggle teens into the U.S. and keep them as virtual slaves at an Ohio egg farm, but he delayed sentencing for the ringleader after learning he had not given up   properties taken from the victims’ families. In 2014, federal …

ANSONIA, Ohio (AP) — A chemical spill inside an Ohio high school classroom has sent seven students and two staff members to a hospital. A fire official in Ansonia says none of the illnesses is considered serious. Ansonia fire Assistant Chief Dusty Brunner tells the Dayton Daily News a small amount of a pesticide used to treat fruit trees spilled …

LIMA, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio appeals court has ordered a new trial for a woman accused of compelling her 10-year-old stepson to fatally shoot his father in 2003 and say it was an accident. Judith Hawkey, of Oakwood, was convicted of aggravated murder, insurance fraud and child endangering and was sentenced in 2013 to life in prison. But judges …

HAMILTON, Ohio (AP) — Another person has been killed at a railroad crossing in Butler County, a southwest Ohio county that’s recorded a high number of railway crossing deaths or injuries in the last few years. The woman, whose name wasn’t immediately released, apparently was waiting for a train to pass Wednesday morning, then drove onto the tracks and was …

TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — Ohio’s environmental regulators are proposing an overhaul of how the state and its cities deal with lead in drinking water, including speeding up notifications when lead is found at the tap. The plan, obtained by The Associated Press, would give city water systems just two days to alert residents when lead levels are above federal limits. …