John Caniglia

A Youngstown-area doctor was sentenced Thursday to 22 years in prison for luring six young girls to hotels for sex.

A Northwest Ohio resident admitted Tuesday that he planned to carry out a mass shooting at a synagogue to show his allegiance to ISIS.

Jessica Watkins, a rural Ohio bartender who authorities say led a handful of militia members in plowing past police and into the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was charged Thursday with seditious conspiracy, the most serious allegation filed involving the attack on the nation’s democracy.

Timothy Goodner, 20, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit arson for his attempts to help burn a parking attendant’s booth on West 3rd Street, across from the Justice Center.

Roy Schrock, a rapist from Lake County, is part of a trend of older inmates serving longer sentences in a system of more than 43,000 inmates. In 2011, about one in eight inmates was older than 50. Today, it is about one in five.

A federal judge Wednesday dismissed the cases of about 300 former students and athletes who accused Ohio State University of covering up the work of a sexual predator who served as a university doctor.

Eduardo Guerrero fled with a 14-year-old girl from Ravenna to Pennsylvania. The trek came after he pled guilty to sex charges involving a minor. He will be sentenced next month in one of the largest investigations a team of federal marshals handled in the past year.

Attorneys for shareholders of FirstEnergy Corp. argued Wednesday against publicly addressing a judge’s questions about who paid the bribes in the House Bill 6 scandal.

A federal judge Friday set a Jan. 23 trial for former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder and lobbyist Matthew Borges in the House Bill 6 scandal.

A federal judge late Monday threw out a request by FirstEnergy Corp. to dismiss lawsuits that allege the utility lost $10 billion in the value of its stock in the months after the House Bill 6 scandal broke.