Ohio’s schools can now apply for their share of $10 million in school safety grants awarded by Attorney General Dave Yost’s office for the 2019-20 school year.

Defendant used Dublin shell company to export oil industry parts

State law does not give the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO) authority to preemptively cap the costs FirstEnergy can recover in its plan for energy efficiency and energy demand reduction programs, the Ohio Supreme Court ruled recently.

Toledo rode a red-hot shooting first half and saw six players score in double figures en route to a 96-70 triumph at Marshall last Sunday afternoon before a crowd of 5,645 at the Cam Henderson Center.

The number of graduates from The University of Toledo College of Law who passed the July bar exam in Ohio on the first try is well above the state average.

The Ohio Department of Education together with the Ohio Department of Higher Education recently announced the release of $3 million in grant funding to help high school teachers obtain qualifications to teach college courses in high school as part of the College Credit Plus Program. The funding was allocated in the biennium budget, HB 166.

Anglers may use a maximum of three fishing lines on Ohio’s portion of Lake Erie and the Ohio River starting on Jan. 1, 2020, following new regulations passed by the Ohio Wildlife Council, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) Division of Wildlife.

Concluding this week’s look at the success the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Ohio’s has had in Fiscal Year 2019 with Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN), the following is a the remaining list of programs and cases which have yielded the Office a record number of violent criminal indictments.

Thousands of lawyers, law firms, law schools and pro bono organizations across the country participated in volunteer events as part of the National Celebration of Pro Bono, which ran from Oct. 20-26. This year, ABA President Judy Perry Martinez asked volunteers to help address the need for legal assistance for survivors of domestic and sexual violence.

Following up yesterday’s article about the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Ohio’s success with Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN), the following is a partial list of programs and cases which have yielded the Office a record number of violent criminal indictments in Fiscal Year 2019. Additional projects and cases will be detailed in tomorrow’s edition of the Toledo Legal News.

A committee in the Ohio House of Representatives recently concluded hearings of a bill aimed at expanding state courts' personal jurisdiction of individuals who do not reside in the Buckeye State, but has sufficient connection otherwise.

The contact sport of football would appear to have little in common with the legal field of dispute resolution, where parties try to negotiate results rather than run over each other.

Ohio Governor Mike DeWine, Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) Administrator/CEO Stephanie McCloud, and RecoveryOhio Director Alisha Nelson announced recently a new, statewide effort to prevent opioid diversion and addiction in situations where an injured worker is prescribed opioids as part of a BWC claim.

It takes a special kind of person to pursue both freedom and justice. Few people possess the integrity, fortitude, mental acuity and determination required to serve in their country’s courtrooms and military.

Ohio Governor Mike DeWine and Lt. Governor Jon Husted recently announced the approval of assistance for nine projects set to create 1,222 new jobs and retain 1,883 jobs statewide. During its monthly meeting, the Ohio Tax Credit Authority (TCA) reviewed economic development proposals brought to the board by JobsOhio and its regional partners. Collectively, the projects are expected to result in more than $82 million in new payroll and spur more than $89 million in investments across Ohio.

Congratulations on the newest addition to your family! As you start reworking your family budget, you may want to consider opening a new Ohio 529 Plan account to save for your newborn’s future higher education. While it’s not necessary, the benefits of a 529 plan can be best used if each child has their own 529 account. Why? Here are a few reasons.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Ohio filed a record number of violent crime indictments in Fiscal Year 2019 as part of a strategy to help drive down homicides and fatal overdoses.

Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost recently announced a $700 million multistate settlement with the drug distributor Reckitt Benckiser Group, with Ohio receiving $39.4 million under the deal.

Opponents of legislation that would create the Ohio Nuclear Development Authority and a for-profit consortium to more fully engage the state's nuclear energy portfolio were given a chance recently to weigh in on the bill before their representatives.

The second of two Columbus men who murdered, tortured, assaulted and intimidated people as part of their drug-distribution conspiracy was sentenced in U.S. District Court recently to 365 months in prison.