Morning 4 is a quick roundup of stories we think you should know about to start your day.
The discovery of 16 siblings living in deplorable conditions in rural Ohio has left people wondering why the life-threatening squalor wasn’t detected earlier.
Authorities say 16 children from the same family who were rescued from a run-down home in rural Ohio were living in horrific conditions and were confined to just one room over much of the past four years.
Authorities have arrested four adults on felony child endangerment charges after discovering 16 children in need of medical treatment in a rural Ohio home.
A federal judge has dismissed a Justice Department lawsuit against Maryland that sought access to the state’s detailed voter records.
In the words of the great philosopher, Marshall Mathers, “Guess who’s back, back again,” as Justin Verlander’s return to the mound is finally coming to fruition.
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine is using his bully pulpit to call for an end to the death penalty in his state.
Pakistan announced that the U.S. and Iran reached an agreement to end the war and open the Strait of Hormuz.
Police investigating a shooting that wounded 12 people at a neighborhood street festival in Ohio have issued arrest warrants for one suspect and are trying to confirm the identity of another.
Police in Ohio are still searching for suspects who opened fire near a busy street festival in Toledo and wounded 12 people over the weekend.
Toledo officials are urging the public to provide videos and information to investigators after a shooting near the city’s annual Old West End Festival left at least 12 people wounded.
Police said they are reviewing witness statements, victim interviews, and video evidence as they work to identify those responsible for a shooting that left 12 people wounded near Toledo’s annual Old West End Festival.
Twelve people were shot, including two who suffered critical injuries, during a shooting near Toledo’s annual Old West End Festival.
Authorities say a shooting near a busy street festival in Ohio has wounded at least 12 people.
The hero of Alabama State’s first NCAA Tournament win and three of his teammates on the 2024-25 team have been ruled permanently ineligible for accepting payment from gamblers to fix the outcome of a game that season.
Ohio State University has agreed to pay approximately $100 million to settle hundreds of legal claims from former student athletes who said they were sexually abused decades ago by a doctor at the university.
Scottie Scheffler and Rory McIlroy have taken scouting trips for the U.S. Open on their way to the Memorial.
Ohio is suspending a tax break that has been critical to its competition with other states to attract the massive new facilities that power and train artificial intelligence chatbots.
Investigators are looking into what caused a small plane to crash into a house in northeast Ohio on Thursday, explode into flames and kill two pilots aboard.
Republican U.S. Rep. Max Miller of Ohio has filed a defamation lawsuit against his ex-wife and her legal team.
Duncan Robinson has been ruled out of the Detroit Pistons’ pivotal Game 5 matchup against the Cleveland Cavaliers in the Eastern Conference second round due to an injury.
A best-of-seven series is now a best-of-three. Bested in every way during a 112-103 runaway in Cleveland to even the Eastern Conference Semifinals in Game 4, the once certain, poised Pistons head back to Detroit in search of two wins and more answers.
Jurors in Ohio have convicted a former sheriff’s deputy of reckless homicide in the shooting of a Black man who was carrying sandwiches into his grandmother’s home.
Thirty former Ohio State football players, including some former NFL players, are agreeing to join a federal lawsuit against the university over the sexual abuse of student-athletes decades ago by a team doctor.
A jury has begun deliberating in the retrial of a former sheriff's deputy in Ohio charged with murder and reckless homicide in the fatal shooting of 23-year-old Casey Goodson Jr. in 2020.
The top-seeded Detroit Pistons are set to open their Eastern Conference semifinals matchup against the No. 4 seed Cleveland Cavaliers on Tuesday, with Game 1 tipping off at 7 p.m. at Little Caesars Arena on Peacock.
President Donald Trump is having some success in his latest attempt to politically punish Republicans who stand in his way.
Candidates for Ohio’s top elected offices will stand before voters in a statewide primary on Tuesday, although many of them are already looking ahead to the November general election.
The Michigan-Ohio border slices directly through one family’s property. It’s more than just a fun fact. It means more money out of their pockets in more ways than one.
The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld the racketeering convictions of imprisoned former Republican Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder and ex-lobbyist Matt Borges in a $60 million bribery scheme.
Norfolk Southern railroad’s first-quarter profit fell 27% because it didn’t collect big insurance payments related to the East Palestine, Ohio, derailment and its planned merger with Union Pacific added to its costs.
More than two years after an Ohio judge declared a mistrial, a murder retrial has begun for a former Ohio sheriff’s deputy charged in the December 2020 killing of a Black man.
Nothing about Alex Ovechkin’s future is all that clear right now after the NHL’s career goal-scoring leader finished his 21st season.
Energy Secretary Chris Wright raised eyebrows Tuesday after saying the country “looks like we’re going in the wrong direction” in remarks hailing a new natural gas pipeline project.
Local opposition to solar has long been an obstacle for green energy developers in the United States, but some communities are working to reverse local restrictions.
A Michigan man is accused of driving into Ohio to pick up a missing 15-year-old girl and bringing her back to a hotel, the FBI said.
A Michigan man drove from Grand Blanc, Michigan to Ohio and picked up a 15-year-old girl reported missing from her home, then brought her back across state lines to a hotel in Fenton, according to the FBI.
A jury has deadlocked in the trial of two fired FirstEnergy Corp. executives charged for their roles in Ohio's $60 million bribery scandal.
The sight of travelers suffering through long security lines at U.S. airports this week have many people showing up way before their flights.
The Trump administration has opened investigations into how race is considered in admissions at three medical schools, ratcheting up its pressure campaign against colleges and universities.
The Whiskey Island salt mine in Cleveland is critically important to providing enough road salt to keep streets safe during the harsh winters of the Northeast and Great Lakes states.
Democrats are starting to treat Vice President JD Vance, not Donald Trump, as their number one focus among Republican leaders.
The U.S. Department of Energy has announced a public-private partnership with SoftBank and AEP Ohio to develop a massive artificial intelligence data center and power complex at a former uranium enrichment site in southern Ohio.
Meteorite hunters are combing Ohio for fragments of a space rock that streaked across the sky earlier this week.
The Grammy-nominated rapper Afroman has won a defamation lawsuit filed by seven Ohio sheriff’s deputies who sued him over music videos that used home security footage to mock them over a 2022 raid of his home.
Eian Elmer scored 23 points and Miami of Ohio beat SMU 89-79 in the First Four for its first NCAA Tournament victory in 27 years.
Tramon Mark hit a fadeaway jumper from just inside the 3-point line with 1.1 seconds left, and Texas survived a late rally to beat N.
Bryce Harris had 19 points and 14 rebounds, and he sank a turnaround jumper with 13 seconds remaining that sent Howard to its first NCAA Tournament victory in program history, 86-83 over UMBC in the First Four.
March Madness tips off with the First Four, featuring one of this season’s best stories in Miami (Ohio) and a matchup of formerly embattled head coaches in Texas’ Sean Miller and NC State’s Will Wade.
The men’s March Madness bracket is set, and Duke, Arizona, Michigan and Florida have claimed the four No. 1 seeds in the tournament.
No. 20 Miami (Ohio) dropped its Mid-American Conference Tournament opener to UMass 87-83, spoiling the last perfect record in Division I men’s basketball.
Ohio State has moved past the abrupt resignation of the university’s president by elevating its chief academic officer into the role.
Ohio State President Walter “Ted” Carter Jr. has resigned abruptly after disclosing “an inappropriate relationship” with a person who was seeking public resources for her business.
Pete Suder scored 19 points, Antowne Woolfolk added 14 and No. 19 Miami (Ohio) closed within a victory of a perfect regular season with a 74-72 win over Toledo that extended the RedHawks’ season-opening winning streak to 30 games.
Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, has started checking literacy skills during pediatric visits for kids as young as 3.
No. 1-ranked Michigan Wolverines (25-2) head coach Dusty May, Yaxel Lendeborg, and Morez Johnson Jr. spoke postgame following their 68-63 loss to No. 3-ranked Duke in Washington, D.C.
No. 1-ranked Michigan Wolverines men’s basketball head coach Dusty May addressed a viral video that has resurfaced, involving one of his talented players, ahead of a top-7 matchup against the Purdue Boilermakers at Mackey Arena.
Wendy’s is closing several hundred U.S. restaurants and increasing its focus on value after a weaker-than-expected fourth quarter.
Michigan basketball completely took over Ohio State’s arena over the weekend -- so much so that even the Buckeye cheerleaders joined in.
It’s a tale as old as time, or at least as old as TikTok: chicken nuggets lovingly topped with a dab of caviar.
The $4.3 million that Akron-based FirstEnergy paid veteran utility lawyer Sam Randazzo in 2019 is at the center of another criminal trial tied to Ohio's sweeping $60 million bribery scandal.
A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from ending temporary protections that have allowed roughly 350,000 Haitians to live and work in the United States.
A video alleging fraud in Somali-run child care centers in Minneapolis has drawn attention throughout the United States.
Happy 189th birthday, Michigan! You look great. Honestly, you don’t look a day over 125. What’s your secret? Pilates? Whatever it is, keep it up. It’s working.
The NHL has postponed the Columbus Blue Jackets’ home game against the Los Angeles Kings on Monday night because of a major winter storm that created dangerous travel conditions across much of the United States.
Vice President JD Vance says he came to Minneapolis to help “lower the temperature” in the city.
When you think IMAX, chances are your mind goes to those immersive documentaries that take you inside volcanoes, deep under oceans or to distant planets.
A Chicago doctor has been charged in the killings of his ex-wife and her dentist husband in Ohio.
Norwich head coach Philippe Clement says U.S. international Josh Sargent refused to play in Sunday's FA Cup match against Walsall.
Facebook parent Meta has reached nuclear power deals with three companies as it continues to look for electricity sources for its artificial intelligence data centers.
Authorities say four suspects from Atlanta are involved in the burglary of Shedeur Sanders' home.
An individual accused of vandalizing the Ohio home of Vice President JD Vance and causing other property damage is behind bars pending a Friday hearing.
The U.S. Secret Service says a man who broke windows at Vice President JD Vance’s Ohio home and caused other property damage has been detained.