COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Voters in Ohio have passed more than 85 percent of school levies on ballots across the state. The Ohio School Boards Association says voters approved 94 of the 110 school funding issues on local ballots in the state Tuesday. The association’s legislative director, Damon Asbury, says that’s the highest passage rate in at least 15 years. …

MARION, Ohio (AP) — Police in central Ohio say a K9 officer camping with her police officer handler was accidentally struck and killed by a vehicle. Marion Police Chief Bill Collins says the death of Bella was announced this week with an “end of watch” notice like any other active officer death. Police say the K9 officer unexpectedly took off …

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The future of marijuana in Ohio was uncertain after the resounding defeat of an effort to legalize cannabis for both medical and recreational use in a single vote. The proposal rejected by voters on Tuesday could be followed in 2016 by a more conventional legalization plan, one that doesn’t give exclusive growing rights to private investors. …

DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — Police are looking for a two-year-old child who was reported to be in a car stolen in a carjacking. Dayton police say the car was reported stolen shortly after 7 a.m Tuesday outside a McDonald’s restaurant. Initial reports said the driver told police that two suspects fled in the vehicle with the two-year-old inside. Dayton police …

ZANESFIELD, Ohio (AP) — Investigators say they can’t determine what caused a fire that destroyed the lodge at Mad River Mountain ski resort in western Ohio. The state fire marshal’s office says investigators couldn’t rule out discarded smoking materials or electrical failure as possible causes. Fire marshal’s spokesman Bill Krugh says the damage to the building was so extensive that …

ZANESFIELD, Ohio (AP) — Fifteen fire departments from four counties fought to contain a fire that destroyed the main building at a ski resort in Logan County on Wednesday night. The director of the Logan County Emergency Management Agency says no injuries were reported in the fire at the Mad River Mountain resort in Zanesfield. Authorities said an unknown number …

BELLEFONTAINE, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio man whose wife is accused of suffocating their three young sons has pleaded not guilty to a charge of sexually assaulting her when she a teenager. An indictment says 43-year-old Bellefontaine (behl-FOWN’-tihn) resident Joseph Pilkington was considered to be Brittany Pilkington’s stepfather when he impregnated her in 2009, when she was 17. The now-23-year-old …

GRANVILLE, Ohio (AP) — Denison University officials say a search is ongoing for an undergraduate student who has been reported missing from the central Ohio school since Sunday evening. Ginny Sharkey, a university spokeswoman, says 21- year-old Wendell Jackson was last seen studying at an academic building on campus between 5 p.m. and 6 p.m. Sunday. University officials say campus …

FINDLAY, Ohio (AP) — A federal agency’s plan for reducing repeated river flooding that has caused millions of dollars of damage over the years in northwestern Ohio has upset some area farmers. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has proposed spending more than $60 million to reduce flooding along the Blanchard River. The current plan calls for building a nearly …

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The Ohio Ballot Board approved language Tuesday for a fall ballot issue that seeks to legalize marijuana and another aimed at extinguishing that plan, and supporters of the pot proposal threatened a court challenge. ResponsibleOhio, the group that brought the marijuana legalization question before voters, said the ballot wording for its proposal is misleading and biased …