CINCINNATI (AP) — Officials in North Korea and the U.S. released little information Friday about a university student from Ohio who was detained for what the authoritarian nation called a “hostile act.” Otto Warmbier is the second person from southwest Ohio to be detained in North Korea in less than two years. A Dayton-area man, Jeffrey Fowle, was held for …

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A woman whose ex-boyfriend is in custody suspected of killing a police officer called 9-1-1 before the officer’s death to warn police in an Ohio village that they were in danger, according to the dispatch call. The body of Danville Officer Thomas Cottrell was found behind the village’s municipal building late Sunday night, about 20 minutes …

MOUNT VERNON, Ohio (AP) — A police officer was found dead behind the municipal building in Danville, Ohio, and a suspect is in custody, authorities said Monday. Danville Officer Thomas Cottrell was found dead on the ground behind the Danville Municipal Building just before midnight and his service weapon had been taken and his cruiser was missing, Knox County Sheriff …

TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — Part of a recently adopted ordinance in northwest Ohio that abolished jail terms and fines for possessing small amounts of marijuana is already in effect despite a pending legal challenge. Toledo residents in September approved an initiative that wrote a new ordinance into the city’s municipal code aimed at decriminalizing marijuana and hashish possession, The Blade …

COLUMBUS — Two state lawmakers want to name a portion of U.S. 30 in Hancock County after late Congressman Mike Oxley. Rep. Robert Sprague and Sen. Cliff Hite, both Findlay Republicans, held a press conference Friday afternoon announcing the introduction of House Bill 430 which will designate a section of U.S. 30 as the “Congressman Michael G. Oxley Memorial Highway.” …

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio House leaders announced plans Thursday for a comprehensive review of medical marijuana, while disclosing that backers of an effort to purge old pot-related convictions are withdrawing their proposal from legislative consideration. State lawmakers have been weighing how to address medical marijuana after Ohio voters overwhelmingly rejected a ballot initiative in November that sought to legalize …

CLEVELAND (AP) — Police say a man has been found dead from a gunshot wound to the head in an SUV in northeast Ohio. Officers say they received a report about 10:20 p.m. of gunfire in a Cleveland neighborhood. The responding officers found the man seated behind the wheel of the SUV. Police did not immediately release the man’s identity. …

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — With heroin overdoses killing more young people in Ohio than car crashes, prosecutors are turning up the heat on dealers, friends and others who unknowingly provide the doses that end up sending drug users to the morgue. Going after suppliers in drug-induced deaths isn’t a new idea — Congress passed such a “strict liability” law after …

TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — Former U.S. Rep. Mike Oxley, who helped write landmark anti-fraud legislation following a wave of corporate scandals that brought down Enron Corp. and WorldCom Inc., died Friday at age 71.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Opposition was strongest in suburbia to Ohio’s first-in-the-nation effort to legalize both medical and recreational marijuana in a single vote, according to an analysis of final election results. About 7 in 10 voters in the counties that ring Columbus and Toledo voted against last fall’s Issue 3, while more than 60 percent voted against it in …