Ohio officials are working to bring missing persons home more quickly through new reforms and legislative changes designed to ...

The case has been dropped against a man who spent a quarter-century on death row for the robbery and murder of a New Jersey woman at an Ohio hotel nearly three decades ago.

An Akron man was sentenced to 15 to 20.5 years in prison on Wednesday for drug trafficking charges and his involvement in the ...

AKRON, Ohio — 21-year-old Victor Jackson was sentenced in Akron on Wednesday to serve 15-20.5 years in prison “for multiple ...

An Ohio bill that would close a loophole in state law that allows registered sex offenders to live near their victims has ...

The man was accused of attacking a female correction officer at a different prison earlier this week, officials said.

It’s easy to laugh at the “escaped inmate orders Uber” line. It’s harder to sit with all the failures that had to line up to ...

A former missionary with an Ohio-based ministry has been indicted on federal charges of engaging in illicit sexual conduct ...

An inmate who touched off a massive search when he escaped from an Atlanta hospital and allegedly stole a car with a handgun inside it ...

Almost a year after the brutal beating death of corrections officer Andrew Lansing, state lawmakers are taking action on a bill to increase penalties for inmates who assault or kill prison workers.