Kwame Ajamu spent 28 years in prison – three on death row – for a Cleveland murder he didn't commit. He's now pushing for Ohio's death penalty to end.

Ohio's death penalty law is in limbo. Supporters and critics agree on one thing: the status quo isn't working.

The FOX 8 I-Team is investigating confusion and alarm after a man was spotted with a gun near an elementary school.

Layshawn M. McKinney was sentenced to prison for selling drugs that caused a fatal overdose in Lake County, Ohio.

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - Ohio lawmakers are pushing for stricter penalties for those convicted of killing law enforcement officers with the introduction of the Larry Henderson Act. Named after Hamilton ...

MASON COUNTY, W.Va. (WSAZ) – A man from Meigs County, Ohio, received the maximum prison sentence on Monday for fleeing from law enforcement in West Virginia, according to the Mason County Prosecutor’s ...

A former corrections officer who pleaded guilty to sexually abusing a federal inmate has been sentenced to nine years and four months in prison. U.S. District Judge Donald C. Nugent in Cleveland ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — A Columbus woman who beat a 4-year-old to death in 2021 was sentenced Tuesday to decades in prison. Michelle Hilyard, 52, was sentenced to 25 years to life after she was found ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- An escaped inmate from an Ohio prison was arrested Monday night in Louisville by the FBI. Jerry Lee Cooper, 48, escaped the Brown County Detention Center in Georgetown, Ohio, ...

The guard shack at Ross Correctional Institution where Corrections Officer Andrew Lansing was murdered on Christmas Day 2024 is circled in red in the photo from a state report. Lima resident Rashawn ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — The Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction has released audit findings of Ross Correctional Institution (RCI) following the killing of correction officer Andrew Lansing on ...

The Grafton Correctional Institution is only a 20-minute drive from Oberlin, but most students don’t know the medium-security men’s prison exists. Yet every Wednesday since 2023, a small faculty-led ...