Court orders Ohio to speed up flood aid

Ohio

Dogs in Cleveland captives case get foster homes

The dogs will be in foster care until the women – Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight – decide whether they want to take the pets into their homes.Today 3:47 pm

Toddler drowns in Ohio river

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Testing starts at ex-park near Ohio cancer cluster

FREMONT, Ohio (AP) — Whirlpool Corp. began soil and water testing Monday at a former park in a northern Ohio area where cancer has sickened dozens of children for more than a decade.Monday

COLUMBUS, Ohio – The state was found in contempt of court Wednesday for failing to move quickly enough to compensate dozens of landowners who suffered losses from flooding near Ohio’s largest inland lake, the Ohio Supreme Court ruled.

At issue was how fast the Department of Natural Resources is responding to a year-old court order to compensate 87 landowners near Grand Lake St. Marys.

The court ruled 5-2 that the landowners had shown “clear and convincing evidence” that the state was in contempt of the court’s decision ordering compensation.

The ruling gave the state three months to finish appraisals on all properties whose claims relate to a flood level set in 2003, and four months to file lawsuits to take the properties.