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In the following press release Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray and the Ohio Organized Crime Investigations Commission announced today details of an investigation which has led to the indictments of 13 people alleged to have perpetrated a $9 million mortgage fraud scheme involving more than 30 properties in central Ohio.

Two more U.S. states on Thursday reported the first death of A/H1N1 flu in their respective state.

One of the big stories during last Friday's cap-and-tax vote was the addition of 300 pages to the legislation at 3am on the morning the vote was scheduled.

After an Ohio police chief agreed to retire, officials released video showing him making out with a female officer while they were transporting a prisoner.

Onlookers who packed into two Statehouse committee meetings Thursday saw no clear indicators of how Ohio's week-old budget impasse would end.

Editor, the Gazette: Friday, Congress took a historic step toward a clean energy economy by passing the American Clean Energy and Security Act .

Share + Jul 2, 2009 5:34 pm US/Eastern ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS, Associated Press Writer COLUMBUS, Ohio An across-the-board drop in tax collections, coupled with a prolonged recession, has states facing their worst fiscal crisis in decades.

FBI agents have raided a pair of multimillion-dollar Buffalo-area homes owned by a young Cleveland businessman's financial company.

The Ohio Department of Health confirmed Thursday that a Butler County male in his 40s, who was infected with H1N1 influenza, died June 29.

The police chief of a northeast Ohio township has retired after a video became public showing him and a female office kissing and caressing in the front of a police cruiser while a prisoner was in the back seat.

COLUMBUS: The Ohio fire marshal's office says fire deaths in the first six months of the year fell from a year ago, when the state had an unusually high number of deaths.

A new company began running the Ohio Lottery's computer system on Wednesday, causing frustrating problems for some retailers and leaving some winning tickets incorrectly coming up as losers.

Authorities say an Ohio teenager fell nearly 100 feet to his death inside a state park where he was doing tree trimming work.

Planned Parenthood does not need to turn over medical records of girls who receive abortions to parents who believe that the abortion clinic ignores evidence of abuse, the Ohio Supreme Court ruled this morning.

The Archdiocese of Cincinnati has banned inflatable rides at Roman Catholic church festivals in southwest Ohio fearing the kind of incident in which a child was slightly hurt last weekend.

Private contractors worried they will need to pay a prevailing wage to construction workers on projects funded with state grants can breathe a sigh of relief.

As company executives hinted earlier this year, World Extreme Cagefighting will, in fact, make its Ohio debut in 2009.

COLUMBUS: Gridlock over the state budget continued Tuesday, as House Democrats sought without success to step up pressure on Senate Republicans to support Gov.

COLUMBUS - An organization devoted to freeing innocent inmates has gone to bat for a condemned Ohio killer, a rare move for a group better known for using DNA evidence to challenge convictions in non-death penalty cases.

The Ohio Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence of a man convicted of killing three people in 2005, including a hostage he took after an initial shooting.