Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost on Tuesday sued Norfolk Southern Corp. over the Feb. 3 derailment and chemical spill in East Palestine, near the state's border with Pennsylvania, seeking reimbursement for the resources it put into responding to the incident, as well as environmental damage.
Former Ohio Speaker Larry Householder argued to a jury Tuesday that an investigation federal officials said tied him to a $60 million bribery scheme involving FirstEnergy Corp. and a taxpayer-funded bailout it sought several years ago was woefully inadequate and suffered from a "government bias" that tainted their view of what happened.
An Ohio federal judge presiding over numerous proposed class actions over last month's train derailment and chemical spill in East Palestine, Ohio, said Wednesday that she was eyeing consolidating all the cases to help streamline the court proceedings.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday said it would not hear the appeal of a man who claimed his civil rights were violated after he was arrested, prosecuted and acquitted for creating a fake Facebook page for the Parma, Ohio, police department.
A real estate company tied to Ukrainian oligarchs under federal investigation faced skepticism Wednesday over its bid to undo the sale of a Cleveland hotel it lost in foreclosure, with a panel of Ohio appellate judges questioning what exactly they could do since the hotel already changed hands.