FirstEnergy

The Ohio Consumers' Counsel is asking federal regulators to reject or delay a request by utilities to build five high-voltage transmission lines in Ohio.

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.

Closing arguments are approaching the halfway point in the trial of former FirstEnergy executives Chuck Jones and Michael Dowling in Akron.

Republican U.S. Sen. Husted's testimony in the high-profile corruption trial comes as he faces a hot-button retention bid this fall to keep the Senate seat to which he was appointed last year as a successor to JD Vance. He is expected to face Democrat Sherrod Brown, a three-term former senator who lost a reelection bid in 2024.

Husted's testimony comes as he faces a hot-button retention bid this fall to keep the Senate seat to which he was appointed last year as a successor to JD Vance.

The state said Chuck Jones and Michael Dowling bribed the state’s top utility regulator Sam Randazzo. But the former execs’ lawyers said Randazzo was the criminal.

State regulators have hit FirstEnergy with a quarter of a billion dollars in penalties related to the billion-dollar nuclear power plant bailout known as House Bill 6.

Former House Speaker Larry Householder, is serving 20 years in federal prison for masterminding the racketeering operation at the center of the scandal.