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An Ohio waitress returns more than $1,000 cash to a customer who left his money for buying Christmas presents on a table she had waited on.

Two women and an 11-year-old boy were stabbed to death and dismembered before their remains were placed in a hollow tree, a coroner said Saturday, confirming the fears of many in this tiny Ohio town where the three went missing.

Ohio authorities believe the bodies of a boy and two women are those of the three family members who have been missing since last week.

A northwestern Ohio school board is firing a longtime teacher after an investigation concluded she slept in class and repeatedly arrived late.

Last week's election was bad for Democrats. The next one could be worse. Senate Democrats running in 2012 will be trying to hold their jobs in states where Republicans just scored major congressional and gubernatorial victories - Florida, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, New Mexico and Virginia.

An Ohio man who bludgeoned his girlfriend to death and then stole her ATM card to buy crack cocaine apologized to the woman's family before he died by lethal injection Wednesday.

House Minority Leader John Boehner of Ohio used a speech in Cleveland to blame Obama's spending, tax and regulatory policies for creating uncertainty and stalling economic growth. He also criticized extended jobless benefits and money for states to save the jobs of teachers, police officers and firefighters.

A bear whose owner was a target of animal rights protesters for staging bear wrestling shows mauled its caretaker to death, authorities say.

A man convicted of murdering five children in 1992 in Cincinnati, Ohio, is scheduled to be executed at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio, Tuesday morning.

A California woman traveling with a bodyguard on a private jet was arrested at an Ohio airport with 506 pounds of marijuana stashed in 13 suitcases, federal authorities said ...