CINCINNATI (AP) -- Law enforcement experts say Cincinnati's first police chief hired under new rules that followed the city's 2001 race riots is transforming his department into a national model.......

CLEVELAND (AP) -- Jurickson Profar has homered in his first career at-bat for the Texas Rangers.......

CLEVELAND (AP) -- Cleveland officials have assured representatives of a World War II submarine memorial that it will continue to be a valued part of the northeastern Ohio lakefront.......

CLEVELAND (AP) -- Second baseman Ian Kinsler has been scratched from the Texas Rangers' lineup and replaced by heralded prospect Jurickson Profar.......

CHILLICOTHE, Ohio (AP) -- Authorities are investigating the death of an Elyria man found dead Saturday at his campsite on county fairgrounds in southern Ohio.......

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Mitt Romney's campaign is defending the Republican presidential nominee's decision to make no mention of the politically unpopular 11-year-old war in Afghanistan in his speech last week at the GOP national convention.......

LORAIN, Ohio (AP) -- A burglar in Ohio picked a choice time for a break-in: While the targeted home's resident was in jail.......

DAYTON, Ohio (AP) -- A southwest Ohio university says its new center in China will allow students and staff to collaborate with businesses on research and developing new products and technologies.......

BERLIN (AP) -- Jailed Pussy Riot member Nadezhda Tolokonnikova says she regrets nothing about the band's anti-government performance in a cathedral that got them convicted of hooliganism and sentenced to two years behind bars.......

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) -- Toledo coach Matt Campbell flipped a coin to determine his starting quarterback on Saturday. Unfortunately for him and the Rockets, who took snaps for Arizona did not come down to chance.......