corruption

Athens County Department of Job and Family Services Director Jean Demosky was indicted last week on multiple felonies for alleged corrupt activity for theft in office. Athens County Commissioner Charlie Adkins was indicted for intimidating a witness related to this case.

A jury in Akron said it's unable to come to a decision on corruption charges against the former FirstEnergy executives.

The message from the FirstEnergy trial jury comes on the eighth day of deliberations following a trial that took six weeks.

A jury in Akron will decide whether two former FirstEnergy executives are guilty of bribing the late former chair of the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio.

State regulators at the PUCO held hearings to determine if FirstEnergy broke state regulations during a 2019 corruption scandal. But the PUCO itself enabled some of the corruption.

Democratic state lawmakers said Wednesday they are rolling out three bills targeting bribes and other forms of political corruption post-House Bill 6.

The Whitehall Division of Police and the regional police union have been fighting ever since the department fired a union grievance officer in July who conducted a survey that was critical of Whitehall's police chief.

A Franklin County Municipal Court judge accused Columbus Mayor Andrew Ginther of trying to influence her in the city's lawsuit against a troubled Greyhound bus station the city wanted to shut down.

Two companies created by the former head of the state’s utilities regulating panel to take bribes from FirstEnergy have made a deal with the state to close out proceedings against them.

Special Prosecutor Brad Nicodemus, the Whitehall city attorney, told WOSU he has been delayed in finishing the case. He said he doesn't know yet when he will wrap it up.