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The mayor of Akron says he asked for the police chief’s resignation this past weekend after learning of “conduct unbecoming of an officer.” Mayor Dan Horrigan his deputy mayor for public safety learned from senior police command about evidence of “serious misconduct” by Chief James Nice. “Including making derogatory statements about fellow officers, inappropriate contact with a city employee, and allegations of potential criminal conduct related to the ongoing criminal case involving his nephew,” Horrigan said.

The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency says major cleanup work is done at the Arco Recycling dump site in East Cleveland. Work crews have cleared more than 300,000 cubic yards of debris from the property on Noble Road, according to a news release from the Ohio EPA. While the piles of material are gone, contractors are still working, agency spokeswoman Heidi Griesmer said. “They’re going and getting all of the small pieces of waste that weren’t part of the big pile,” she said. “Then once that’s done they’re going to bring in a street sweeper.”

Many Central Ohio 3rd Graders are at risk of repeating, if they cannot pass the state’s new reading test. About a third of Columbus City School students…

That $1.8 billion figure represents the after-tax loss claimed by Volkswagen in its new quarterly statement. The carmaker's loss before taxes was far higher, at $3.8 billion.

Turkey with all the trimmings is on the Thanksgiving menu at local churches and community groups serving those less fortunate for the holiday. Several…

Columbus residents who pay for curbside recycling services soon could enjoy the service for free. Mayor Michael Coleman announced plans Thursday to move…

Despite the end of Nasa's shuttle program, space exploration will move into a new phase with the help of Ohio State University researchers. They've come…

Over the weekend, torrential rains brought widespread flooding throughout Missouri that led to at least eight deaths. Flooding is expected to continue throughout the week.

Ohio’s two U.S. senators say Congress should act on DACA, now that the Trump administration announced it would end the program shielding undocumented young people from deportation. Still up in the air is how both parties might strike a deal. Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown supports the DREAM Act, which would open a path to citizenship for people brought to the country unlawfully as children.

Cleveland police have agreed to cut in half a backlog of citizen complaint cases by the end of the year. The monitor overseeing the city’s consent decree laid out a schedule of deadlines in a federal court filing last week. The monitoring team in June said that Cleveland is moving too slowly in finishing years-old investigations of complaints against officers.