A gunman in body armour who opened fire in a popular entertainment district in Dayton, Ohio, killed nine people including his sister, officials have said.

That frequently over-used phrase — ‘the chance of a lifetime’ — will have genuine credibility for a pair of lucky Irish girls this summer.

A man stored his girlfriend's body in a freezer while another woman helped him and assumed the dead woman's life by moving into her home, using her credit cards and caring for her dog, a prosecutor in Ohio has said.

A gunman has fatally shot the police chief of an Ohio village and two nursing home employees, authorities said.

Every society in every time gets a warning that something may be wrong, that something we regard as almost impossible may be about to happen. 

A huge manhunt is under way in Ohio for a suspect who police said shot and killed an elderly passer-by and posted the murder on Facebook.

One person has been killed and 15 injured after gunfire erupted at an Ohio nightclub.

An Ohio police department have shared this horrific photo to raise awareness of heroin-ravaged America.

The stepfather and stepbrother of an Ohio girl were arrested on kidnapping charges for keeping the 13-year-old captive and chained in their basement for as long as a year until she managed to escape, officials said.

Get the tissues ready…

Police in Ohio have interviewed more than 30 people in the investigation into the fatal shootings of eight family members at four different locations.

Seven people have been shot dead in "execution-style killings" in three homes along a rural Ohio road, US authorities said.

Multiple fatalities have been reported after a series of shootings in rural Ohio.

A parody Facebook account could spell jail for one Ohio man who created a replica page of his local Police Department’s social media account.

A grand jury has declined to indict a recently-hired Cleveland police officer or his partner for their roles in the fatal shooting of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, a black youngster who was holding what turned out to be a pellet gun.

Have a nice day is an Americanism that some people have negative opinions about, but it is clearly something a lot of Americans feel strongly about.

Latest Update Nine people have died after a private jet crashed into a house in the US state of Ohio.

Cue tears.

A judge dismissed a white Ohio woman’s lawsuit accusing an Illinois sperm bank of mistakenly providing sperm from a black donor, resulting in a mixed race child the mother said she was not culturally prepared to raise.

Drake and Serena Williams enjoyed a romantic dinner date in Cincinnati, Ohio last night

A man has been killed by a rollercoaster at a US amusement park after entering a restricted area to look for a lost mobile phone.

The fate of six women — four dead, two missing — has a small southern Ohio city on edge. 

Her silence speaks volumes.

A police chief has said America’s ’fascination’ with guns must end after a three-year-old boy shot dead a one-year-old child after picking up an unattended weapon at an Ohio home.