U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio

A Licking County man pleaded guilty to paying people to torture monkeys and then distributed videos of the acts.

A federal indictment says officer Nicholas P. Duty deactivated or removed his body camera during two encounters with women.

U.S. District Court Judge Michael Watson sentenced Shihab Ahmed Shihab Shihab Monday to 178 months in prison.

Randazzo, 74, was charged with 11 counts, including one count of conspiring to commit travel act bribery and honest services wire fraud, two counts of travel act bribery, two counts of honest services wire fraud, one count of wire fraud and five counts of making illegal monetary transactions.

A local member of the transnational gang MS-13 has received a 35-year prison sentence for his part in a racketeering conspiracy that included multiple murders.

Officers John Kotchkoski, 33, and Marco Merino, 44 both work in the cartel until of the division's Narcotics Bureau. Federal charges include narcotics distribution and bribery.

The Ohio Department of Health will not appeal a federal court ruling that barred the state from not allowing people to change the gender listings on their birth certificates.