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Four protesters, a legal observer and a street medic will get $800,000 total, to be split between the six of them. Each person claimed police shot them with knee knocker or rubber bullets or assaulted them by shoving them or grabbing them by the throat.

Scioto County rejected the state’s $800 million settlement in 2021 with the nation’s three biggest opioid distributors. Some locals felt it deserved a bigger share of the funds. Now, its case is stuck in an Ohio court.

Officer Enrique Ortega will be allowed to retire from the Whitehall Division of Police in good standing. He now works at the Mifflin Township Police Department.

FirstEnergy has agreed to pay a $100 million fine to settle civil fraud charges from the SEC, but the federal agency will go ahead with civil fraud charges against the utility’s former top executive.

The lawyers who negotiated the deal with Norfolk Southern on behalf of everyone affected by the disastrous February 2023 derailment said only 370 households and 47 businesses in the 20-mile (32-kilometer) radius around the derailment opted out of the property damage payments.

People who live near East Palestine, Ohio, can now get $25,000 apiece for any injuries they sustained after last year's Norfolk Southern freight train derailment on top of whatever money they get for property damage as part of the $600 million class-action settlement.

Federal authorities say pharmaceutical distributor Cardinal Health Inc. has agreed to pay more than $13 million to resolve allegations that it violated federal law by paying some doctors’ offices kickbacks.

The Ohio State University has reached $5.8 million in settlements with 23 more men who say they were sexually abused by former team doctor Richard…

Ohio State will pay roughly $41 million to sexual abuse survivors who came forward with allegations against a former team doctor. The deal covers 162 of…

The Ohio hospital system that found an intensive care doctor ordered excessive painkillers for about three dozen patients who died has reached settlements…