COLUMBUS — The Ohio Amber Alert Steering Committee has decided for now to stop sending alerts about abducted children to Ohioans’ cellphones between midnight and 6 a.m. after an overnight alert prompted complaints. A State Highway Patrol spokeswoman tells The Columbus Dispatch there was “considerable grumbling” in complaints to troopers and the attorney general about [...]

About 50 to 100 CenturyLink customers in Central Lorain have been without phone and Internet service for most of the week, according to a spokeswoman. While a Chronicle reader who called the newsroom said her service went out Sunday, CenturyLink spokeswoman Stephanie Meisse said her information was that the damage occurred Monday. This afternoon she [...]

ELYRIA — Suspected serial killer Samuel Little left certain tell-tale evidence when he allegedly slew his victims and that’s what Elyria police are looking for as they re-examine old cases to see if Little may have killed here. “Cases that we look for have to have a certain criteria in terms of evidentiary value,” Elyria [...]

CINCINNATI — Republican U.S. Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio says he now supports gay marriage because one of his sons is gay. Portman told reporters Thursday in Washington that his views began changing in 2011 when his college-age son Will told his parents he was gay. Portman says he reconsidered gay marriage from a different [...]