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It was the second time in just over a month that a Columbus police officer was hospitalized and a suspect was killed in a shooting – and the latest gun incident in a violent summer.

Ohio State Rep. Bob Young (R-Green) is resigning. He sent a letter Friday to Speaker of the House Jason Stephens saying he's stepping down effective Oct. 2.

After years of pressure to set the Miami Seaquarium orca free, Lolita was scheduled to spend her final days in her natural habitat sometime next year. On Friday, she died of a "renal condition."

A wind-driven wildfire in eastern Washington state has destroyed at least 185 structures, closed a major highway and left one person dead, authorities said Saturday.

Police said $300,000 worth of merchandise was stolen and one of the robbers used bear spray on a security guard.

Some small businesses throughout Ohio say they are opposing Issue 1 even though big lobby groups that represent them are for it.

Hilliard Food Pantry Board President Kyle Koppenhoefer said the community has donated around $100,000 and 20,000 pounds of food since the Sunday fire.

Swedish lawmakers had said they would boycott this year's Nobel Prize ceremonies in Stockholm after the foundation initially invited representatives of the three countries to attend.

The Storied South is a new book by folklorist William Ferris, collecting 40 years worth of oral histories from Southern writers and artists. Ferris tells NPR's Celeste Headlee that the book was a way of getting everyone from Eudora Welty to Bobby Rush to a "common table of conversation."

Seven of the Democratic members of Ohio's state board of education are suing to stop a provision in the state budget that transfers the authority to make many important decisions from the board to the governor.