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.

Federal prosecutors Monday called a failed financial adviser a con man who lied to his investors in a $9.3 million scam that preyed upon the elderly.

A federal appeals court has upheld the racketeering conviction of a former top executive of MetroHealth System, who prosecutors say led wide-ranging bribery schemes.

A monitoring team overseeing the reform of Cleveland police has praised the unit that investigates citizen complaints against officers but stressed that more training and resources are needed.

A former Solon band director was sentenced Thursday to 3½ years in prison for molesting students, some as young as 12.

The most controversial case in Lorain County ended Friday the same way it began nearly 28 years ago, with Nancy Smith and Joseph Allen in tears.

The Ohio Supreme Court on Thursday suspended a University Heights lawyer for a year for trying to damage the reputation of an opposing attorney.

Insurers for current and former leaders of FirstEnergy Corp. are expected to pay out one of the largest settlements in the nation involving the House Bill 6 scandal.

The chief justice of the Ohio Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to remove a judge deciding the fate of a Cleveland attorney accused of contempt of court in the University Hospitals fertility case.

Federal prosecutors said Tuesday that the tens of millions of dollars that fueled the House Bill 6 scandal were criminal bribes laundered through a nonprofit with the intent to pass legislation, not campaign contributions.

Attorneys have asked a judge for more time to study whether a federal consent decree designed to reform the Cleveland police department needs to be modified with the passage of a citizen-backed charter amendment.