Ohio’s public safety department is expanding its online registry of repeat drunken-drivers. The registry includes drivers who have five or more DUI convictions in the past two decades. The change comes after reports that the registry contained information from courts …
An Ohio judge used a sentencing in a high-profile drunken driving case to make a point about addictions that was nearly lost in a tug-of-war over the proper focus of the hearing. At issue for Franklin County Judge David Fais …
A Toledo councilman says the northwest Ohio city is looking at areas of potential sinkholes to ensure road safety after one large sinkhole swallowed a moving car and briefly trapped the driver. WTOL-TV reports the city council agreed Tuesday to …
Traffic citation statistics indicate there hasn’t been a big upswing in tickets for Ohio motorists who text while driving. The Columbus Dispatch reported Sunday that a check of three populous counties didn’t find many citations under the Ohio ban that …
Ohioans saw increases in their homeowners and auto insurance rates last year, though they’re still getting a bargain. Ohio’s Department of Insurance recently released the 2012 average rates for homeowners and auto insurance. The state’s top 10 auto insurers raised …
Ohio’s big cities this year will raze hundreds of vacant homes that are a danger and a drag on neighborhoods, but it’s not enough to keep up with the backlog of empty buildings that number in the thousands. A proposal …
Ohio Lieutenant Governor and Department of Insurance Director Mary Taylor announced that Patricia Young, of Piqua, was sentenced to three years of community control and 17 months incarceration (suspended) in Miami County Common Pleas Court for insurance fraud. “Insurance fraud …
Agencies in Columbus, Ohio, are trying to recoup nearly $900,000 spent or lost in the train derailment and explosion that lit up the early morning sky north of downtown and heavily damaged a city bus depot one year ago. Those …
Authorities say a central Ohio insurance lawyer was killed when he fell through the roof of a storm-damaged building he was inspecting. The Fairfield County Sheriff’s Office said 44-year-old Michael Anthony Sway died on May 23 when the roof of …
A Cincinnati man who was the subject of an undercover investigation by the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) has been sentenced for working while receiving benefits for a prior workplace injury. Michael Gundling was sentenced April 11 and has …