As an undergraduate, northeast Ohio native Sharon Merklin considered going to law school, but instead found a way to combine her interest in the legal profession and love of books and research into a ...

Mortgage rates may be declining, which puts new homebuyers in a better position than just a year ago (tinyurl.com/5ykwr6cx). The 30-year fixed-interest rate mortgage ...

DETROIT (AP) — Had she wanted to, Michelle Chumley could have afforded a pricey new SUV loaded with options. But when it came time to replace her Chevrolet Blazer SUV, for which she'd paid about ...

Dear Mr. Berko: I purchased 200 shares of Bemis Co. Inc. in 2002 at $29 and have a decent profit. I now have 517 shares because it split 2-for-1 in 2004, and I have reinvested all the dividends. My ...

I’m going to finish my endurance off-season series with swimming. Now to most competitive swimmers this off-season discussion is going to sound like Swimming 101. But to those relative newcomers such ...

Introduced as House Bill 325, the legislation requires certain health care professionals to encourage pregnant women to seek drug treatment while providing limited protection from civil or criminal ...

The 6th Circuit Court of Appeals released a decision recently in which it affirmed the conviction and sentence of Herald Alexander for being a felon in possession of a firearm. Alexander was convicted ...

(THE CONVERSATION) What's in a name? People use unique names to address each other, but we're one of only a handful of animal species known to do that, including bottlenose dolphins. Finding more ...

Devised initially as a budget amendment, House Bill 463 secured a first hearing before Energy and Natural Resources Committee members in the Ohio House of Representatives this week after the amendment ...

A divided 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals recently ordered a new trial for a man convicted of the Christmas Eve murder of his mother. Circuit Judge Helene White, writing on behalf of the federal ...

The Official Law Journal for Local, County, State, US District and US Bankruptcy Courts. To the right are listed all legal happenings in Mahoning County by court. The Daily Legal News offers daily ...

The 10th District Court of Appeals recently affirmed a lower court’s decision denying two men leave to move for a new trial after they were convicted of felonious assault in 2009. Garri Ambartsoumov ...