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#1 Lawsuit Alleges Ohio Officer Fatally Shot Pregnant Mother Without Proper Training
Sep 26 2025 // An Ohio police officer accused of shooting to death a pregnant Black mother two years ago was not trained or supervised properly, according to a federal lawsuit filed Wednesday against the police chief and the township...
#2 Ohio Residents Divided Over Norfolk Southern Settlement Agreement
May 2 2025 // Norfolk Southern began making promises to East Palestine, Ohio, soon after its train derailed and caught fire in February 2023. The railroad said it would “make it right” after five tank cars of vinyl chloride...
#3 Family of Man Who Died in Ohio Jail Reaches $7M Settlement
Oct 2 2025 // The family of a man who died after being restrained in an Ohio county jail said Tuesday that they have reached a $7 million settlement agreement with the county and are pushing officials there to prevent something like the...
#4 Former Ohio Doctor Loses Defamation Lawsuit Against Ex-Employers
Jun 19 2025 // A former Ohio doctor who was fired before being found not guilty on murder charges in the deaths of 14 patients lost a defamation lawsuit against his former employers on Monday, after a judge stepped in for a jury on...
#5 Freight Railroads Fail to Join Federal Safety Program After Ohio Derailment
Aug 25 2025 // Two and a half years after a derailed train spewed toxic gases across eastern Ohio, none of the nation’s largest freight railroads have fulfilled promises to join a voluntary federal close call program designed to...
#6 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...
#7 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...
#8 Report Reveals Delay in Deploying Specialized Plane in Ohio Train Derailment
Jun 9 2025 // A specialized plane equipped with advanced sensors that the government deploys to chemical disasters could have helped authorities avoid needlessly blowing open five rail tank cars and burning their toxic contents after...
#9 Chemours Must Stop Unlawful Pollution of Ohio River, Federal Court Orders
Aug 12 2025 // A federal judge ordered the Chemours Chemical Company on Thursday to immediately stop discharging unlawful levels of cancer-causing chemicals into the Ohio River from the company’s Washington Works plant in West...
#10 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...
#11 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...
#12 First Financial to Acquire Westfield Bancorp From Ohio Farmers
Jun 25 2025 // First Financial announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Westfield Bancorp, in a cash and stock transaction, from Ohio Farmers Insurance Company. Ohio Farmers is the parent company of the global...
#13 Lawsuit Blames Deaths on Ohio Train Derailment
Feb 5 2025 // A lawsuit alleging for the first time that people died because of the disastrous 2023 East Palestine train derailment was announced on Monday’s second anniversary of the toxic crash near the Ohio-Pennsylvania border...
#14 Train Strikes Family on Ohio Railroad Bridge, Killing 3
May 20 2025 // Two women and a 5-year-old girl died after a train struck the family members while they were on a railroad bridge over a northern Ohio river, authorities said Monday. Crews equipped with sonar had been scouring the...
#15 AM Best Revises Outlook to Stable for Ohio’s Westfield
Mar 5 2025 // AM Best has revised the outlook to stable from negative for the Long-Term Issuer Credit Ratings (Long-Term ICR) and affirmed the Financial Strength Rating (FSR) of A (Excellent) and the Long-Term ICRs of “a+”...
#16 Ohio Rules That Data Centers Pay for Minimum Energy Needs
Jul 11 2025 // Regulators in Ohio, a key data center market, ruled that data centers will have to pay for some of their energy requests regardless of whether the electricity ends up being needed. The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio...
#17 Norfolk Southern Says Insurance to Cover At Least $750M of Ohio Derailment Costs
Jan 31 2025 // Norfolk Southern’s solid fourth quarter — combined with the optimism the railroad is hearing from their customers and support they’re getting from Washington D.C. — has the CEO feeling optimistic about...
#18 Ohio Manufacturer Faces $182K Fine for Workers’ Amputations
Dec 9 2024 // U.S. Department of Labor inspectors found a Cleveland, Ohio bakeware manufacturer failed to prevent two workers from suffering injuries that resulted in amputations, incidents that could have been avoided with proper...
#19 Ohio Residents Push Back Against $850K Bond to Appeal Derailment Settlement
Jan 27 2025 // Residents challenging Norfolk Southern’s $600 million settlement for the disastrous East Palestinetrain crash have asked a court to reject a judge’s order requiring them to put up an $850,000 bond to continue...
#20 Ohio Company to Pay $326K for Allegedly Selling Unregistered Pesticides
Jul 28 2025 // The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced last week a settlement with Tranzonic Cos., known as Hospeco Brands Group, in Cleveland, Ohio, for allegedly selling unregistered pesticide products and a product...
