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#1 Whistleblower Questions Delayed Use of Sensor Plane After Ohio Train Derailment
May 16 2024 // The U.S. government has a specialized plane loaded with advanced sensors that officials brag is always ready to deploy within an hour of any kind of chemical disaster. But the plane didn’t fly over eastern Ohio until...
#2 Few Residents Opt Out of Proposed $600 Million Settlement in Ohio Train Derailment
Jul 18 2024 // Few people ultimately opted out of the $600 million class action settlement Norfolk Southern offered to people affected by last year’s disastrous East Palestine train derailment despite the questions residents raised...
#3 Hidden Report Reveals Worker Illnesses From Ohio Derailment Cleanup
Aug 19 2024 // The creeks around East Palestine, Ohio, were so badly contaminated by last year’s disastrous Norfolk Southern derailment that some workers became sick during the cleanup. Workers who reported headaches and nausea —...
#4 Trial to Determine Who Will Pay $600M in Norfolk Southern Ohio Derailment
Mar 31 2025 // Norfolk Southern wants two other companies to help pay for the $600 million class-action settlement it agreed to over its disastrous 2023 train derailment near the Ohio-Pennsylvania border and the toxic chemicals that were...
#5 Ohio Explosion Caused by Cut Gas Line Thought to be Turned Off: Investigators
Jun 4 2024 // YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (AP) — A crew working in the basement area of an Ohio building intentionally cut a gas line not knowing it was pressurized before a deadly explosion last week, the National Transportation Safety Board...
#6 Ohio Jury Rules Norfolk Southern Liable for $600M Settlement in Train Derailment Case
Apr 25 2025 // The company that owned the railcar that caused the devastating East Palestine train derailment in 2023 won’t have to help pay for the $600 million settlement Norfolk Southern agreed to with residents. An Ohio jury...
#7 Rising Spring Rains Pose Challenges for Midwest Farmers
May 7 2024 // SABINA, Ohio (AP) — It was just after dark as Ross Woodruff hopped into a truck to haul soybean seeds out to his brother, Mark, whose planter had run out. It was the first day they could plant after heavy rains two weeks...
#8 Ohio Supreme Court Orders City to Pay $30 Million Police Brutality Judgment
Jul 18 2024 // The Ohio city of East Cleveland must pay a $30 million jury verdict awarded to a man who police wrongly assaulted, arrested and detained, the state’s highest court has ordered. The victim, Arnold Black, went to court...
#9 Michigan Police Arrest 6 Men for Stealing $8M Worth of Vehicles
May 20 2024 // LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Six men working as part of a criminal organization in Michigan have been arrested in connection with the theft of more than 400 vehicles worth about $8 million, authorities said last week. The men,...
#10 Judge Approves $600M Settlement for Residents Near Ohio Train Derailment
Sep 27 2024 // A federal judge on Wednesday approved a $600 million class-action settlement Wednesday that Norfolk Southern railroad offered to everyone who lived within 20 miles (32 kilometers) of last year’s disastrous derailment...
#11 Ohio Attorney General to Certify Proposed Ban on Police Immunity
Apr 24 2025 // Prompted by a stinging defeat at the U.S. Supreme Court, Republican Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost on Tuesday said he was putting aside his objections and allowing a proposed constitutional amendment that would end...
#12 Ohio Pastor Found Guilty for Violating City Fire Code by Sheltering Homeless
Jan 23 2025 // A judge in northwestern Ohio found a pastor guilty on criminal charges Tuesday for failing to comply with the city fire code after he opened his church to let homeless people and others stay inside overnight to escape the...
#13 Few Households Opt Out of $600M Ohio Train Derailment Settlement
Sep 11 2024 // Very few people who live near the East Palestine, Ohio, train derailment opted out of a $600 million class action settlement despite residents’ reservations about whether the deal offers enough, so lawyers argue the...
#14 FirstEnergy Corp. to Pay $20M to Settle Ohio Bribery Scheme
Aug 15 2024 // The energy company at the center of a $60 million bribery scheme in Ohio will pay $20 million and avoid criminal charges as part of a deal with state prosecutors to resolve its role in the scandal. Akron-based FirstEnergy...
#15 Ohio Supreme Ct.: Chicken Wings Advertised as ‘Boneless’ Can Have Bones
Jul 30 2024 // Consumers cannot expect boneless chicken wings to actually be free of bones, a divided Ohio Supreme Court ruled last week, rejecting claims by a restaurant patron who suffered serious medical complications from getting a...
#16 $7M Settlement Reached for Family of Man Fatally Shot by Ohio Sheriff’s Deputy
Aug 16 2024 // The family of Casey Goodson Jr., a Black man who was shot and killed by an Ohio sheriff’s deputy, will receive $7 million to settle a federal civil rights lawsuit over the December 2020 shooting. The Franklin County...
#17 Building Explosion Kills Bank Employee, Injures 7 Others in Youngstown, Ohio
May 31 2024 // YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (AP) — A massive explosion blew out much of the ground floor of an apartment building, killing a bank employee and injuring several other people. Police and emergency officials initially blamed natural...
#18 OSHA Cites Company for Multiple Safety Violations Following Cargo Hold Fire in Ohio
Sep 30 2024 // Federal safety inspectors found a crew working aboard the Cuyahoga, a commercial iron ore vessel moored at the Port of Ashtabula, narrowly avoided disaster after a large fire erupted as they welded off paint in a cargo...
#19 Ohio Begins Sales of Recreational Marijuana
Aug 6 2024 // COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Recreational marijuana sales will begin across Ohio on Tuesday when the state issues its first operating certificates. Nearly 100 medical marijuana dispensaries will be able to begin sales...
#20 Appeal Delays $600M Class Action Settlement in Fiery Ohio Derailment
Oct 3 2024 // Settlement checks related to Norfolk Southern’s disastrous 2023 derailment could be delayed up to two years now because an appeal of a federal judge’s decision last week to approve the $600 million deal has...
