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By MICHAEL RUBINKAM Associated Press

Gov. Mike DeWine says he'll announce on Thursday his proposed recommendation for increasing the state's gas tax to deal with a chronic shortfall in spending on road construction.      DeWine, a Republican, says there are no other solutions outside a gas tax increase, while warning that any increase simply keeps Ohio from falling behind.      He wouldn't provide details or say what the proposed increase will be. He spoke at an annual forum sponsored by The...

A former Philadelphia police officer has been arrested on allegations that he sexually assaulted male witnesses and suspects over more than a decade.

A 12-year-old boy has been charged in the shooting of a teenage girl who was hit in the face by a gunshot during a church group meeting in a northeast Philadelphia home.

Gov. Mike DeWine has created a task force to study changes to Ohio's arrest-warrant system after a newspaper identified numerous problems within the system.

The union representing state troopers says a contract dispute between western Pennsylvania health giants UPMC and Highmark could have a negative impact on troopers and their families.

A college student from Pennsylvania has been charged with what police call the unprovoked stabbing of a homeless woman in downtown Providence, Rhode Island.

Experts are predicting higher-than-normal water levels on the Great Lakes this summer, some of which may set records.

Ohio officials will meet to go over state funding that will help cover the costs of prosecuting the four suspects in the slayings of eight people in southern Ohio.

Police in Ohio say gummy candies suspected of being laced with marijuana were given to some students at an elementary school.

A judge has ruled most of a confession from an Ohio woman accused of suffocating her three sons can be used at her trial.

Authorities say a pregnant woman went into premature labor and gave birth after the pickup truck in which she was riding was rear-ended by an alleged drunken driver in Philadelphia.

Authorities say one sheriff's deputy has been shot and killed and another wounded during a 12-hour standoff at an apartment complex in Ohio, and a suspect was arrested.   

Authorities have released the names of a woman and her three children who were found dead inside an Ohio home that had caught fire.    

The government says 11 people have been charged in a plot to smuggle synthetic drugs into federal prisons by soaking papers in drugs.

A second of three Ohio ministers accused of enticing teenage girls to have sex with them has pleaded guilty.

A Republican woman who sought to unseat an Ohio lawmaker by revealing sexual text messages they exchanged has pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor coercion charge related to her tactics.

Authorities say a man pulled a gun on officers inside a Pennsylvania city's police headquarters.

Pennsylvania's Senate is resuming a push to make the Eastern hellbender the state's official amphibian, an effort to highlight the plight of a creature whose numbers researchers say are declining because of...

The Columbus City Council is scheduled to vote Monday on a settlement of a federal lawsuit filed by two women arrested along with adult film actress Stormy Daniels at a strip club last year.      

An Ohio man has pleaded not guilty to charges in connection with the death of a woman whose body was found ablaze on the side of the road.

A Pennsylvania man says his emotional support alligator helps him deal with his depression.

Authorities say two pilots are dead after a plane crashed into the snow-covered front yard of a rural Ohio home shortly after taking off from a private airfield nearby.

An Ohio teenager hoping to become a book editor someday has earned perfect scores on both the ACT and SAT college entrance exams.    

A newspaper is reporting that more than 6,000 votes went uncounted during the November election in a central Ohio county.

The state Department of Health is investigating a doctor accused of ordering potentially fatal doses of the powerful painkiller fentanyl for 27 gravely ill patients who died at an Ohio hospital system.

The Ohio Parole Board has recommended against mercy for a condemned Ohio man who says he's innocent in the fatal shooting of a volunteer addiction counselor.

Police say a woman walking her dog in a city park on the west side of Cleveland has died after being shot in the head.

Newly inaugurated state attorneys general say they plan to continue investigations of clergy abuse in the Roman Catholic church as thousands of victims reach out to state hotlines and online systems to report past abuse.

A federal judge is once again allowing the use of an open phone line to his courtroom during an Ohio execution.

A Pennsylvania mayor whose house was raided by the FBI last week says through his lawyer that he believes the investigation has to do with campaign finance.

Four dispensaries are ready to begin selling medical marijuana for the first time in Ohio. Two of the dispensaries opening Wednesday morning are in the southeast Ohio community of Wintersville, outside Steubenville.

Stormy Daniels is suing police officers in Ohio's capital for $2 million over her arrest at a strip club last summer.      

A Roman Catholic priest who pleaded guilty to sexually abusing two boys and making one of them say confession after the assaults is set to be sentenced in Pennsylvania court.

Outgoing Ohio Gov. John Kasich (KAY'-sik) has commuted the life sentence of a woman convicted of killing her ex-boyfriend who she said abused her for years.