Fri Jan 20, 2012 11:38 AM EST
A self-styled chaplain suspected in a deadly scheme to rob people who replied to a Craigslist job ad has been charged with multiple counts of aggravated murder, kidnapping and robbery and could face the death penalty if convicted, according to an indictment announced Friday.
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Fri Jan 20, 2012 2:31 AM EST
It's "Sesame Street" meets the unseemly side of politics.
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Thu Jan 19, 2012 4:11 PM EST
A breakaway Amish leader charged in beard-cutting attacks on fellow Amish complained Monday that the government is trying to demonize him to keep him locked up, but a judge again rejected pretrial release.
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Fri Jan 13, 2012 2:19 PM EST
A judge in Ohio won't offer convicted Nazi war criminal John Demjanjuk (dem-YAHN'-yuk) another chance to regain his U.S. citizenship.
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Wed Jan 11, 2012 3:31 PM EST
Twelve members of a breakaway Amish group pleaded not guilty Wednesday to beard- and hair-cutting attacks on fellow Amish in a feud over church discipline.
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Mon Jan 2, 2012 6:44 PM EST
An energy company that shut down a northeastern Ohio brine injection well last week after earthquakes in the area has commissioned a geologic study, as Democrats in Columbus and Washington use the quakes to push for stricter regulations on oil and gas drilling and wastewater associated with hydrofracking.
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Tue Dec 20, 2011 4:55 PM EST
Convicted Nazi war criminal John Demjanjuk's bid to regain his U.S. citizenship was denied Tuesday by a judge who said he had lied about where he was during World War II.
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Tue Dec 20, 2011 4:26 PM EST
A lawyer for one of 12 people charged in beard-cutting attacks on fellow Amish in Ohio said Wednesday that he will plead not guilty to federal hate crime charges and that the law itself may be challenged.
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Wed Dec 14, 2011 3:53 PM EST
A boy removed from his mother's custody over health concerns when his weight ballooned to more than 200 pounds will be taken from foster care and placed in the custody of an uncle, a judge ruled Wednesday.
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Mon Dec 5, 2011 2:36 PM EST
An Ohio 16-year-old charged with murder in a deadly Craigslist robbery scheme says in a letter to his father that he believes God will keep him from a long incarceration.
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Sun Nov 27, 2011 1:09 PM EST
A rare sight in hard-luck Youngstown, a new industrial plant, has generated hope that a surge in oil and natural gas drilling across a multistate region might jump-start a revival in Rust Belt manufacturing.
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Fri Nov 25, 2011 12:49 PM EST
The discoveries of two new bodies could bring to three the death toll from a Craigslist ad that police say lured victims into a lethal robbery scheme.
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Wed Nov 23, 2011 6:26 PM EST
Members of the Amish community in three states have been frightened by recent hair-cutting attacks in Ohio, making fearful calls to authorities and arming themselves with pepper spray and shotguns, a sheriff said.
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Tue Nov 8, 2011 6:52 PM EST
A poll worker in Ohio accused of biting a voter's nose during an Election Day argument has been charged with assault.
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Tue Nov 1, 2011 5:37 PM EDT
The defense for a retired auto worker convicted in Germany of Nazi war crimes told a judge Tuesday that hundreds of pages of newly released documents cast doubt on the U.S. effort to revoke his American citizenship.
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Thu Oct 27, 2011 8:54 PM EDT
The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. posted a profit for the third quarter on a 22 percent rise in revenue Friday as its strategy of promoting high-end tires paid off even as the number of tires it sold was unchanged.
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Mon Oct 24, 2011 6:00 PM EDT
An Ohio man charged with defrauding fellow Amish in 29 states out of nearly $17 million insists on pleading no contest on religious grounds at his arraignment, but that wouldn't be in his best interest, his attorney told a federal judge Monday.
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Wed Oct 19, 2011 8:57 PM EDT
Regional banking company KeyCorp reported Thursday that its third-quarter net income rose 19 percent and beat the Wall Street forecast as bad loans declined.
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Wed Oct 19, 2011 9:29 AM EDT
Federal prosecutors said they will fight a "brazen" attempt to restore U.S. citizenship to a man deported to Germany and convicted on Nazi war crimes charges.
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Thu Sep 15, 2011 12:24 PM EDT
An Ohio man has been charged with defrauding fellow Amish in 29 states out of nearly $17 million by moving their money from safer securities to riskier investments subject to market fluctuations, federal prosecutors said Thursday.
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Wed Sep 14, 2011 4:03 PM EDT
U.S. Reps. Dennis Kucinich and Marcy Kaptur jumped into re-election campaigns in the same newly redrawn congressional district across northern Ohio on Wednesday, setting up a primary fight next year between two veteran Democratic incumbents.
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Mon Aug 15, 2011 2:36 PM EDT
A serial killer who dumped the remains of 11 women in and around his home deserves a new trial because a juror expressed horror during a jury visit to the scene and complained after the verdict that he had winked at her during the trial, according to a court document filed by his defense team.
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Mon Aug 8, 2011 12:16 PM EDT
A social worker appealing to save the life of an Ohio man who killed 11 women says he grew up in a "horrible" home and has a family history that includes drug abuse, mental illness, epilepsy and sexual abuse.
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Sun Aug 7, 2011 9:18 PM EDT
A northeast Ohio man ran through his small town neighborhood Sunday shooting eight people, including his girlfriend and her brother, before he was shot and killed in an exchange of gunfire with police, authorities said.
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Sun Aug 7, 2011 8:28 PM EDT
A man apparently angry with his girlfriend gunned down two people outside an Ohio home and two more in a car Sunday morning, then shot the girlfriend in a rampage that left eight dead including the gunman, who was shot by police, authorities and witnesses said.
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