The Latest Breaking News from Ohio

Akron braces for protests after release of video in police killing of Jayland Walker

The city of Akron, Ohio, was on edge Sunday after police released body-camera footage in the killing of a Black man as police officers fired dozens of times as he fled from them on foot, apparently unarmed.

Los Angeles Times · Jul 3, 2022

A Black man who was killed by police was unarmed at the time of the shooting

Officials in Akron, Ohio, released video of the pursuit and shooting of Jayland Walker, 25. The police chief said officers tried to stop Walker's car for unspecified traffic and equipment violations.

WEKU · Jul 3, 2022

10-year-old rape victim forced to travel from Ohio to Indiana for abortion

Case places prominent anti-abortion figures in position of balancing rights of women and girls while defending restrictions

The Guardian - US · Jul 3, 2022

The hell and high water of forced birth

Doctors tell Salon the lack of one exception in abortion bans will be an “unequivocal nightmare”

Salon · Jul 1, 2022

One nation — under minority rule

Right-wing justices tell us they're sending abortion back to the states — where they've rigged and broken democracy

Salon · Jul 1, 2022

Election deniers have taken their fraud theories on tour — to nearly every state

Even as the Jan. 6 hearings play out, election misinformation keeps spreading. NPR tracked four leaders preaching false information about election fraud at hundreds of grassroots events nationwide.

WEKU · Jun 30, 2022

EXPLAINER: Abortion landscape under state 'heartbeat' laws

Laws banning most abortions at the point of the “first detectable heartbeat"are beginning to take effect following the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to overturn the nearly 50-year-old Roe v. Wade decision

The Independent UK · Jun 29, 2022

Mexican migrant in Texas tragedy hoped to reach kin in Ohio

Two cousins from a remote community in southern Mexico were among the 67 people packed into a tractor-trailer and abandoned under the sweltering Texas sun

The Independent UK · Jun 29, 2022

Man, 51, marries son's ex-girlfriend he has 24-year age gap with - and met when she was 11

Sydney Dean, 27, from Ohio, US, first met truck driver Paul, 51, as a sixth-grader after visiting her then boyfriend, Paul's son, and the pair got married in 2016

Daily Mirror · Jun 29, 2022

Stellantis Launches Primary Health Care Center In Ohio To Serve Employees

Stellantis NV (NYSE:STLA) has launched a primary care health and wellness center in Toledo, Ohio, in collaboration with ProMedica Health System. Starting July, the health-care center will serve more than 9,500 employees and their families working and living within a 15-mile radius of the facility. The 12,000-square-foot health and wellness center will feature 13 examination rooms…

Benzinga · Jun 28, 2022