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MUSKINGUM COUNTY — After an investigation spanning four years, 17 defendants, six narcotics trap houses, 10 state and federal law enforcement agencies and 18 months of litigation, the leader of a multi-state drug operation was…

CLEVELAND, Ohio (AP) — Two men have been sentenced to life in prison and a third to a shorter term in the…

After the judge announced his sentence, Smollett lowered his face mask and said he was innocent. "Your honor, I respect you and I respect the jury, but I did not do this," the actor told the judge, before turning to the court. "And I am…

A multi-state network of pain clinics participated in the scheme from 2007 to 2018 in which doctors refused to provide patients with opioids unless they agreed to expensive, unnecessary and sometimes painful back injections, the…

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – A third suspect in the killing of a Columbus City Schools bus driver in 2019 as part of a murder-for-hire plot will spend at least the next 15 years in prison. Tarayle Glick, 22, of Columbus, pled…

CLEVELAND (WJW) — A Chesterland man was sentenced to prison and ordered to pay restitution for COVID-19 relief fraud. ‘Something was off’: Local woman says someone used Apple AirTag to track her Robert Bearden, 49,…

The Department of Justice said in a news release that Horowitz "raised at least $650 million with bogus claims that investor money would be used to acquire licensing rights to films that HBO and Netflix purportedly had agreed to…

A man accused of carjacking two drivers during a chase through Warren County has been sentenced to prison.Bryon E. Finklea, Jr., 25, was convicted of one count of robbery, two counts of kidnapping, one count of failure to comply…

LIMA, Ohio (WCMH) — A Bluffton man has been sentenced to nearly 50 years in prison for his role in human trafficking a minor.  Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost states that Grant Rose, 58, and Susan Walendzik, 43, controlled…

A 15-year-old female was charged with making a terroristic threat, a third-degree felony, and a 16-year-old male faced one count of conveyance of deadly weapon in a school safety zone, a fifth-degree felony, according to court…