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A black, female Bowling Green State University student allegedly fabricated a hate crime story about white, male President-Elect Donald Trump supporters ...

BOWLING GREEN (13abc Action News) - Strong accusations were made by a Bowling Green State University student the day after election day. Eleesha Long said she was assaulted and called a racial slur, but BG police said she made the story up. Long wrote a police complaint on November 9th that reads in part, "while walking down Crim St to ask for yard signs, three boys began to throw rocks at me." Long continued to write the white males shouted profanity at her while wearing Trump shirts. She described how all three young men looked and what they were wearing....

FULL TITLE: America's heroin epidemic laid bare outside McDonald's: Shocking footage emerges of the moment two men had to be rescued after overdosing in a parking lot A disturbing video has emerged showing the extent of the country's heroin epidemic, with two men having to be rescued after overdosing in a McDonald's parking lot in Ohio. The video, taken on a cellphone and posted to Facebook Live, has been viewed more than 50,000 times following the incident in Sandusky on Thursday afternoon. According to police, a group of people found one man passed out behind the wheel of a car,...

Cincinnati, OH — Since October 28, 2016, city sewer vehicles have been seen outside the Planned Parenthood abortion facility in Cincinnati, Ohio. First, Roto-Rooter was called out, but the problem seemed to be beyond their ability to solve. Next came the city sewer trucks, which put equipment down a manhole across the street from Planned Parenthood. On November 10, another vehicle from the city sewer department was called out. This time, workers opened a manhole in the sidewalk directly in front of Planned Parenthood, closing the sidewalk. While we don’t know for sure what the sewer problem is near Planned...

DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) – A Montgomery County courtroom fell silent as a 93-year-old woman faced her rapist Wednesday morning. The victim took the podium, looking directly at her rapist, Jean Paul Mpurnwa and said,”I’m glad this day has come so he can’t do it to someone else.” The defense argued Mpurnwa is mentally ill and suffers from schizophrenia. His attorney, Vic Hodge said at the time of the rape his client was suffering from his illness and was not on medication. Hodge told the judge that Mpurnwa and his family escaped from Rwanda and witnessed terrible, traumatic events. “I would...

BEAVER TOWNSHIP, OH - A suspected prostitute from St. Clairsville is behind bars after an undercover sting by police in Ohio. Police say Crystal Hotlosz, 36, of St. Clairsville agreed to meet an undercover officer after posting an advertisement for sex services on Youngstown’s Backpage website. She allegedly agreed to meet for a sex act for the price of $50 and nachos.

24-year-old man from Ohio has been charged in a federal court after tweeting a threat to assassinate President-elect Donald Trump on election night. Zachary Benson, from Fairview Park in Cleveland, posted the remark on Twitter a few minutes before the Republican nominee was declared the winner of last week's election. Benson tweeted: 'My life goal is to assassinate Trump. Don't care if I serve infinite sentences. That man deserves to decease (sic) existing.' Seconds earlier he tweeted: 'Diplomacy. F***ing fools. I hate you all. I want to bomb every one of your voting booths and your general areas.' Benson was...

A man found with two gunshot wounds to the legs is identified as the missing suspect in a home invasion. The homeowner told responding deputies two armed men wearing masks forced their way into the home. The homeowner said he was assaulted by the men but was able to get his gun and shoot at them. Hall was believed to be shot twice in the legs during the robbery and was a fugitive until Friday.

The day after the 2016 election for president, General Motors announced it was laying off another 2,000 workers in plants in Ohio and Michigan, two states that gave President-elect Donald Trump a major victory on Tuesday. GM said the layoffs will affect the third shifts in the plants in Lordstown, Ohio, and Lansing, Michigan, which build the low-selling cars sold under the Chevrolet and Cadillac brand names. “The Lordstown plant builds the compact Chevrolet Cruze, whose U.S. sales through October were down 20%,” Fortune magazine reported. “The Lansing Grand River plant builds the Cadillac ATS and CTS, whose sales were...

As Election Day turned to Election Night, two of Ohio's top Republicans sat on big plans largely contingent upon Donald Trump going down in flames. Gov. John Kasich, who fell short in his own bid for the GOP presidential nomination, was preparing a Thursday speech in Washington, where he would outline his Trump-free vision for his party and country. It would be an early first step toward another run in 2020. Matt Borges, the Ohio Republican Party chief and a Kasich ally, was angling to be the next Republican National Committee chairman. He would build his case on his success...

Now that the dust has settled and Donald Trump has been elected the next President of the United States, those who supported his opponent – Hillary Clinton – are analyzing what went wrong that cost her in the elections. According to some, it was thousands of write-in votes for a famous gorilla who lost his life earlier this year. Reports of write-in votes for Harambe, the gorilla who was shot and killed in May at the Cinciniatti Zoo when he was holding onto a child that had climbed into his enclosure, have taken over the internet. While write-in votes are...

CLEVELAND-- Early voting in Cuyahoga County is down from the last presidential election, officials said on Monday. Board of Elections Director Pat McDonald said about 38,000 people cast ballots in person ahead of Election Day this year. That number is down from 2012. McDonald said he expects 595,000 people will cast their ballots in Cuyahoga County, meaning a 67 percent voter turnout. Of that number, 40 percent will have voted early. The board of elections is working with the Cuyahoga County Sheriff’s Department, the Department of Homeland Security and FBI to ensure and safe and secure Election Day. McDonald said...

THEY can’t vote or even donate, but that hasn’t stopped these Australians from campaigning for Hillary Clinton in America. Volunteers William Madani, 32, and Amanda McKenna, 29, are knocking on doors in the battleground state of Ohio for the Democratic presidential hopeful. “This election is so significant for the entire planet — for global security, for global growth and trade and for letting the world know what rhetoric is acceptable and what isn’t,” Mr Madani tells News Corp Australia from a campaign office in East Cleveland. Mr Madani landed in the US about three weeks ago from London, where he...

Here’s the astonishing truth the media’s not talking about and Democrats refuse to believe — Donald Trump is getting more than double, and sometimes more than triple, the black vote Romney got 4 years ago. Recent polling by Remington Research shows Trump getting 22% in Florida, Romney got 5 percent. In North Carolina, Trump’s getting 19%, Romney got 4 percent. Trump’s getting 22% of black voters in Wisconsin compared with Romney’s 6% 4 years ago. And in Pennsylvania, Trump scores an astounding 29% against Romney’s 7% share in 2012. Nationally, Romney received less than 7% of the black vote in...

Back to the Buckeye State! Calls from Trump Tower late today announce the mission for supporters is "divide and conquer", so with the Tarheel State covered tomorrow by the "Women For Trump" bus tour (and the man himself!) we head back to beautiful Ohio for a full day of energizing events. Hope to see you on the trail! 10:05am - Hamilton County Grassroots Rally Location: Anderson Bar & Grill Address: 8060 Beechmont Ave; Cincinnati, OH 12:10pm - Montgomery County Grassroots Meet & Greet Location: Trump-Pence Victory Center Address: 3020 Far Hills Avenue; Kettering, OH 2:10pm - Fayette County Grassroots Rally...

A federal appeals court in Cincinnati overturned a court order Sunday that would have prevented Republican Donald Trump’s supporters from monitoring election activities outside polling places. The decision by the three-judge 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel overturned Friday’s decision by U.S. District Judge James Gwin, whose order would have applied to both Democrats and Republicans equally. But unlike Trump, Democrat Hillary Clinton has not exhorted her supporters to stand outside polling places to monitor voting. The decision was in response to a suit filed by Democrats last Sunday, arguing the presence of Trump supporters outside polling places could...

Video: 30 seconds at link. EXCLUSIVE: An unidentified male on Sunday potentially violated Ohio election law by standing outside a polling station to hand out invitations to an event touting appearances by Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and NBA star LeBron James. “It is clear that this is extremely questionable, if not illegal behavior,” a spokesman for Secretary of State Jon Husted’s office said after reviewing a video of the incident taken by the Fox News Channel. Husted told Fox last week that his office would investigate any allegation of fraud or tampering that is brought to his attention by...

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump won a legal battle on Sunday when a U.S. appeals court in Ohio removed new restrictions on partisan poll watchers that Democrats had sought to prevent Election Day voter intimidation. The rules overturned by the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals would have imposed greater penalties on people who harass voters during Tuesday's election. Voter intimidation already is prohibited under U.S. law but Democrats have pushed for greater restrictions in Ohio and five other battleground states, citing concerns that Trump's heated rhetoric might inspire Election Day chaos.

Ohio is an important swing state in next week's presidential election, and if Donald Trump fails to win the state, his path toward victory is very narrow. That's why AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka was in the state making sure that working people know how important their vote is. Here is some of the media coverage of Trumka's visit:Toledo Blade: "Before volunteers spent their time canvassing local neighborhoods to urge those to vote, which consisted of two three-hour shifts, Mr. Trumka, president of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), stopped by in support of Hillary Clinton...

CBS/YouGov Poll, Among Those Who Plan Voting On Election Day: Ohio: Trump 49 (+8) Clinton 41 Florida: Trump 51 (+16) Clinton 35 — Political Polls (@PpollingNumbers) November 6, 2016