Airborne Robocriminal Drops Heroin, Weed, Tobacco Into Ohio Prison Yard

A fight broke out at an Ohio prison last week when a drone dropped a package of drugs onto an outdoor recreation yard, the Associated Press reports.
Fearing Family Dog, Cop Accidentally Shoots 4-Year-Old Girl
On Friday, an Ohio woman sought aid from a police officer who subsequently shot her 4-year-old niece while attempting to shoot their charging family dog, the New York Daily News reports.
Adopted Ohio Woman Learns Coworker Is Biological Mother
After almost 40 years apart, an adopted Ohio woman was reunited with her birth mother on Tuesday, discovering she worked in the same office and lived just six minutes away, the New York Daily News reports.
Dumbass Mom Reportedly Dangled Toddler Over Cheetah Pit Before Fall
Offering another clear example of why we can't have nice (probably unethical) things, the mother of a two-year-old who fell into a zoo's cheetah enclosure yesterday is accused of dangling the boy over the exhibit beforehand.
Cops: Woman Stabbed Boyfriend Because He Ate All of Their Salsa
The snack-provoked crime wave continues in America: One week after a father allegedly shot his son in the butt over an empty orange juice container, a woman in Akron, Ohio, allegedly stabbed her boyfriend in the stomach because he ate all of their salsa.
Prolific Public Pooper Plagues Akron With 19 Public Poops
A sour and slightly nutty cloud of uncertainty has descended on Akron, Ohio, after 19 incidents of public pooping over three years were potentially linked to the same single shitter. And those are just the documented cases—an Akron police officer told local NBC outlet WKYC he estimated at least 100 more.
Man Taunts Cops on Facebook. Man Is Arrested. Man Cries.
Andrew Dale Marcum was featured on the Butler County Sheriff's Office Facebook as wanted for multiple charges. Marcum, an unwise man, commented, "I ain't tripping half of them don't even know me." No one knows what he meant.
My Soul Belongs to a Woman Who Burned to Death and I'm Five
And now, a spooky story for you: Little Luke Ruehlman of Cincinnati, Ohio, claims to be the vessel for the reincarnated spirit of a woman named Pamela Robinson, who died in a Chicago fire in 1993—at least, that’s what his mother Erika said he told her.
1,450 Cleveland Cops to Get Body Cams After Tamir Rice Shooting
On Wednesday, police in Cleveland began wearing some of the 1,500 body cameras the city bought for officers last month, the Associated Press reports. Cleveland Police plan to outfit every officer in the department with the devices by June.
Unable to Score Lethal Injection Drugs, Ohio Postpones All Executions
After a botched execution left a condemned man writhing and gasping for air, Ohio announced this month that it would be returning to an earlier, sodium thiopental-based lethal injection formula. Now the state says it's delaying all executions until 2016 as it struggles to secure a supply of the drug.
Letters From Death Row: Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Ohio Inmate A269-357
From time to time we publish letters from death row inmates. Today, we bring you a letter from Jeffrey Wogenstahl, who is scheduled to be executed by the state of Ohio in January of 2016.
Police in Riot Gear Fire Tear Gas at Partying Ohio State Students
Thousands swarmed the streets surrounding Ohio State University last night following the school's national championship win. Campus and local police, clad in riot gear, dispersed the crowds by firing pepper spray at students and fans.
The state of Ohio says it is getting rid of its two-drug lethal injection formula, which led to a botched execution last year. Now they'll use one drug that just kills you.
Girlfriend of Walmart Police Shooting Victim Dies in Car Crash
Tasha Thomas, the girlfriend of John Crawford, III, the man shot dead by police last August in an Ohio Walmart, was killed in a high-speed car crash on New Year's Day, Ohio's ABC 22 reports.
World's Loneliest Gorilla Baby Will Just Find a New Family, I Guess
It looks like Kamina—the lonesome ape baby raised by humans and rejected by her own—will be hitting the old dusty trail again after two more gorilla moms refused to take her in.
