BOSTON — A battle over a federal law that defines marriage as a union between a man and a woman appears headed for the Supreme Court after an appeals court ruled Thursday that denying benefits to married gay couples is unconstitutional.
COLUMBUS — Another trial of alleged pill mill operators begins Tuesday, one that will highlight the connections between the roots of the state’s painkiller epidemic in southern Ohio and the 90-mile trip many addicts took north to Columbus when their source for prescriptions dried up.
COLUMBUS — A new state report finds that heroin is so prevalent in Ohio it is “falling out of the sky” with many users switching from more expensive prescription painkillers.
COLUMBUS — A state panel on Thursday upheld its decision that a Cincinnati landlord, who claimed a black girl’s hair products clouded an apartment complex’s swimming pool, discriminated against the child by posting a “White Only” sign poolside.
CALDWELL — A teenager accused in a deadly robbery scheme that lured victims with a phony Craigslist job ad can be tried as an adult, a judge ruled Thursday.
COLUMBUS — A Supreme Court justice who helped write the state’s death penalty law testified Wednesday that the law isn’t working and should be scrapped.
COLUMBUS — A man suspected of being the third fatal victim of a deadly Craigslist robbery scheme died in August, weeks before the suspected killings of two other victims, according to the man’s death certificate. The body of Ralph Geiger was discovered Nov. 25 in Noble County in rural southeastern Ohio during an investigation into two other deaths and the wounding of a fourth man.
COLUMBUS — The FBI used an email sent by a man later found buried in a shallow Ohio grave in a deadly Craigslist robbery scheme to trace his whereabouts, according to a Virginia pastor who knew him well. David Pauley was excited about the job he’d accepted in southeastern Ohio, even though the details seemed a little fishy, said Kenny Bryant, senior pastor at the Tabernacle Church in Norfolk, Va.