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Children are disappearing from northern Ohio in record numbers, with more than 1,000 minors reported missing so far this year. More than 45 children have gone missing in the Cleveland-Akron area this month alone, and in August, there were more than 35 missing minors, according to the Ohio attorney general’s …

Between 20 and 30 cars have gone off the tracks, officials say A Norfolk Southern cargo train derailed near Springfield, Ohio in the US on Saturday. The incident comes a month after another train operated by the same company came off the tracks in East Palestine, Ohio, causing a major …

There is no danger to the public arising from hazardous materials, the railway operator says A train derailed in Lexington, North Carolina, USA on Saturday, Norfolk Southern Railway has confirmed. The incident comes just weeks after another cargo train operated by the same railway company came off the tracks in …

US lawmakers are investigating the federal response to the environmental disaster, claiming officials waited too long to act President Joe Biden has said he has no plans to visit East Palestine, Ohio – where a recent train derailment resulted in a massive toxic chemical spill – insisting there was no …

Facing scrutiny from Republicans and Democrats for what critics are calling a slow response to the Feb. 3 toxic train derailment in East Palestine, the Biden administration on Feb. 17 announced it would send more help to the eastern Ohio village after pleas from Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine, Sen. J.D.Vance …

The first round of primaries ahead of the November midterm elections offered early indications of the US political temperature.

A US woman has won a court order for a hospital in Ohio to treat her husband, who is on a ventilator with COVID-19, with the antiparasitic medicine ivermectin, as demand surges for the unproven coronavirus treatment. The case is one of several nationwide where courts have sided with litigants …

Donald Trump held his first big campaign-style rally since leaving the White House, giving a vintage, rambling speech Saturday to an adoring audience as he launched a series of appearances ahead of next year’s midterm elections.

At least three people were killed and three others were wounded in a shooting Sunday outside a bar in Youngstown, Ohio, police said. Chief Carl Davis of the Youngstown police department said gunfire was reported shortly after 2 a.m. Sunday in the area of the Torch Club Bar & Grille …

Ohio’s Republican Governor Mike DeWine has tested positive for COVID-19, hours before he was set to greet the president at the airport for his visit to the Buckeye State. DeWine was slated to greet Mr. Trump on the tarmac in Cleveland Thursday afternoon. DeWine’s office confirmed the positive test in …

Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder, a Republican, and four other men with ties to state politics were taken into custody on Tuesday in a $60 million federal racketeering case, local media reported. The office of U.S. Attorney David M. DeVillers for the Southern District of Ohio said in a statement …

Residents in Sandusky, Ohio, were forced to take shelter as a ferocious storm descended on their town, ultimately demolishing the historic Sandusky State Theater before their very eyes. The theater, which had stood since 1928, was no match for the storm that struck the town on Wednesday, ripping away entire …

Donald Trump is to visit the sites of mass shootings in Ohio and Texas amid warnings he will not be welcome. The attacks in El Paso, where Hispanic people appear to have been targeted, and Dayton left 31 people dead. Before leaving for Ohio, he said he was concerned about …

A huge tornado that has struck the US state of Ohio left more than 5 millions more without power, the country’s National Weather Service has announced. The service said on Tuesday plowed through the town of Dayton on Monday night, damaging homes and uprooting trees. Several people have been injured …

Cocaine deaths have been rising in the United States, amid the nation’s deadliest drug overdose epidemic, US health officials have said in a new report. After several years of decline, overdose deaths involving cocaine began rising around 2012 and they jumped by more than a third between 2016 and 2017, …