PATRICK ORSAGOS

Stools line the bar at Elwood's Liquor and Tap on Thursday, July 18, 2024 in Milwaukee, Wis. This week's Republican National Convention didn't deliver an overwhelming victory to some small businesses in downtown Milwaukee. There had been earlier promises of an economic boost, but some bars, convenience stores and restaurants along the edge of the secure zone sat largely empty all week. (AP Photo/Patrick Orsagos)
Outside the RNC, small Milwaukee businesses and their regulars tried to salvage a sluggish week
The Republican National Convention didn’t deliver an overwhelming victory to some small businesses in downtown Milwaukee.
 
TUnited States Steel Corporation Research Technology Center in Munhall, Pa., is shown, Thursday, June 27, 2024. Generations of Pittsburghers have worked at steel mills, rooted for the Steelers or ridden the rollercoaster at Kennywood amusement park, giving them a bird's eye view of the massive smokestacks of Edgar Thomson Works, the region's last blast furnace. Now, steel town USA's most storied steel company, U.S. Steel, is on the cusp of being bought by Japanese steelmaker Nippon Steel Corp. in a deal that is kicking up an election-year political maelstrom across America's industrial heartland. (AP Photo/Patrick Orsagos)
Sale of US Steel kicks up a political storm, but Pittsburgh isn’t Steeltown USA anymore
Pittsburgh’s most storied steel company, U.S. Steel, is on the cusp of being bought by Japanese steelmaker Nippon Steel Corp. in a deal that’s kicking up an election year political maelstrom.
 
Jennifer Homendy, chair of the National Transportation Safety Board, speaks during a board meeting concerning the February 3, 2023, train derailment of a Norfolk Southern freight train carrying hazardous materials, Tuesday, June 25, 2024, in East Palestine, Ohio. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)
NTSB chair says Norfolk Southern interfered with derailment probe after botching vent-and-burn call
National Transportation Safety Board Chair Jennifer Homendy says Norfolk Southern repeatedly tried to interfere with the investigation into the East Palestine, Ohio, derailment and shape its conclusions about what the agency called a flawed decision to blow open five tank cars and burn the vinyl chl
 
Larry Householder appears via video for his arraignment in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court Judge Emily Hagan's courtroom Friday, May 31, 2024 in Cleveland. Householder has pleaded not guilty to 10 felony counts brought against him by the state. (Joshua Gunter/Cleveland.com via AP)
Imprisoned former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder pleads not guilty to new charges
Imprisoned former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder has pleaded not guilty to 10 felony counts brought against him by the state.
 
Artist Woodrow Nash, front row, fourth from left, Chairperson of the Sojourner Truth Project Akron Towanda Mullins, front row, fifth from right, Brent Leggs, Executive Director and Senior Vice President of the African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund back row first from left, Jim Mullen president and CEO of United Way of Summit and Medina back row, second from left stand with others at the unveiling of the Sojourner Truth Legacy Plaza in Akron, Ohio on Wednesday, May 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Patrick Orsagos)
Statue unveiled at the site where Sojourner Truth gave her 1851 ‘Ain’t I a Woman?’ speech
Hundreds gathered in an Ohio city to unveil a plaza and statue dedicated to abolitionist Sojourner Truth at the very spot where the women’s rights pioneer gave an iconic 1851 speech known as “Ain’t I a Woman?”
 
The sword and scabbard of Civil War Union Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman is displayed at Fleischer's Auctions, Thursday, May 9, 2024, in Columbus, Ohio. The wartime sword, likely used between 1861 and 1863, are among the items that will be open to bidders Tuesday, May 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Patrick Orsagos)
Civil War General William T. Sherman’s sword and other relics to be auctioned off in Ohio
Bidders will fight with their dollars next week for personal relics and a sword used by Civil War Union General William Tecumseh Sherman at an auction house in Columbus, Ohio.
 
Dean Kahler, who was shot and paralyzed at Kent State University on May 4, 1970, recounts the National Guard aiming their rifles that day, during an interview in his home Thursday, May 2, 2024, in Plain Township, Ohio. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)
Troops fired on Kent State students in 1970. Survivors see echoes in today’s campus protests
Kent State University is marking another solemn anniversary of the National Guard shootings that killed four unarmed students and wounded nine others on May 4, 1970.
 
Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump and former first lady Melania Trump pauses to speak after voting in the Florida primary election in Palm Beach, Fla., Tuesday, March 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)
Biden and Trump notch more wins Tuesday as primary voters urge them to keep up the fight
Joe Biden and Donald Trump are moving closer to a November rematch, as primary voters around the country urge their favored candidate to keep up the fight and worry about what might happen if their side loses this fall.
 
Joe Baker's damaged home in Valleyview, Ohio, on Saturday, March 16, 2024. Thursday night’s storms left trails of destruction across parts of Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana and Arkansas. (AP Photo/Patrick Orsagos)
Long recovery ahead for some in path of deadly tornadoes in central US
A day and a half after deadly tornadoes ripped through parts of the central U.S., residents are cleaning up, assessing damage and helping their neighbors. It will be a long recovery for some.
 
Whitehall Police Officer Matthew Perez trains his dog Rico at a park Wednesday, March 6, 2024, in Whitehall, Ohio. Two Ohio lawmakers are looking to ease the looming financial burden faced by law enforcement agencies in the state who will have to replace marijuana-sniffing dogs after voters last year approved a plan to legalize recreational marijuana use. (AP Photo/Patrick Orsagos)
Nothing to sniff at: Bill would help pay to retire Ohio drug-detecting K9s under legal cannabis
Two Ohio lawmakers are sponsoring a bill that seeks to ease the financial burden on law enforcement agencies that will have to replace their marijuana-sniffing dogs.
 
FILE - This image taken from Ohio State Highway Patrol body camera video shows a police dog attacking Jadarrius Rose, 23, of Memphis, Tenn., on July 4, 2023, in Circleville, Ohio. The central Ohio city agreed Thursday, Feb. 8, 2024, to a settlement with a former K-9 officer and truck driver involved in an attack last year in which video from the event garnered national attention and raised questions about the use of canines in apprehending suspects. (Ohio State Highway Patrol via AP, File)
An Ohio city settles with a truck driver and a former K-9 officer involved in July attack
A city in central Ohio has agreed to a settlement with one of its former K-9 officers and a truck driver who were involved in an attack last year.
 
In this frame grab taken from video, a Norfolk Southern train moves down the track in East Palestine, Ohio, on Monday, Jan. 29, 2024, as cleanup continues. Daily life largely returned to normal for residents of East Palestine, Ohio, months after a Norfolk Southern train derailed and spilled a cocktail of hazardous chemicals that caught fire a year ago, but the worries and fears are always there. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
A year on, a small Ohio town is recovering from a fiery train derailment but health fears persist
Daily life largely returned to normal for the nearly 5,000 residents of East Palestine, Ohio, months after a Norfolk Southern train derailed and spilled a cocktail of hazardous chemicals that caught fire a year ago.
 
REMOVES SECOND REFERENCE TO TOWN DROPPING CHARGES FILE - This image taken from video provided by WTVG shows Pastor of Dad's Place Chris Avell, right, sitting inside Bryan Municipal Court on Thursday, Jan. 11, 2024, in Bryan, Ohio. (WTVG via AP)
A pastor and a small Ohio city tussle over the legality of his 24/7 homeless ministry
A Christian pastor says his small Ohio city would lose a beacon of light downtown if he has to close an around-the-clock ministry for homeless people and others seeking shelter.
 
This image taken from video shows kitten Lola-Pearl looking up at attendees during a Amputees Coming Together Informing Others' Needs meeting on Monday, Dec. 11, 2023, in Troy, Ohio. More than five years ago, someone left the kitten with twisted back legs at a Missouri animal shelter. The cat was transferred to specialists in Iowa who amputated her left hind leg. She was soon after adopted by a woman who lost her left leg after a near-fatal car accident. Now the duo has partnered with a non-profit that registers therapy animal volunteer teams. They visit hospitals, nursing homes and even amputee support groups to aid in therapy and other activities to improve well-being in communities. (AP Photo/Patrick Orsagos)
Cat-owner duo in Ohio shares amputee journey while helping others through animal therapy
More than five years ago, someone left a kitten with twisted back legs at a Missouri animal shelter. The cat was transferred to specialists in Iowa who amputated her left hind leg.
 
Signs in support of the Tusky Valley Schools community can be seen in front of the elementary school shortly before a community prayer vigil, Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2023, at the Tuscarawas Valley Schools football stadium in Zoarville, Ohio. A charter bus filled with high school students was rear-ended by a semitruck on an Ohio highway earlier in the day, leaving several people dead and multiple others injured. (Andrew Dolph/Times Reporter via AP)
NTSB team visits scene of deadly Ohio interstate crash involving busload of high school students
A federal investigator looking into an Ohio bus crash that killed three students, two parents and a teacher with a high school band group has praised “good Samaritans” who rushed to the scene of the highway crash.
 
Emergency responders are on the scene of a fatal accident on Interstate 70 West in Licking County, Ohio, Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2023. An emergency official says a charter bus carrying students from a high school was rear-ended by a semi-truck on the Ohio highway. (WSYX/WTTE via AP)
Ohio interstate crash involving busload of high school students leaves 6 dead, 18 injured
A charter bus filled with high school students was rear-ended by a semitruck on an Ohio highway, leaving six people dead and 18 others injured.
 
FILE- African American high school student Walter Gadsden, 15, an onlooker to the protest, is attacked by a police dog during a civil rights demonstration in Birmingham, Ala., on May 3, 1963. For some, the scene of a trucker being attacked by a police dog on a rural Ohio highway in July 2023, harkens back to the Civil Rights Movement, when authorities often turned dogs on peaceful Black protesters marching for equality. (AP Photo/Bill Hudson, File)
A police dog attacked a Black trucker on his knees. An Ohio city is dealing with the aftermath
A K-9 police dog’s attack on a Black motorist in Ohio is resurrecting questions about race relations and law enforcement tactics.
 
FILE - This image taken from police body cam video shows a police dog attacking Jadarrius Rose, 23, of Memphis, Tenn., on July 4, 2023, in Circleville, Ohio. A prosecutor in Ohio wants a judge to dismiss charges, at least for now, against a Black truck driver who was bitten by a police dog while he was surrendering along a highway last month. (Ohio State Highway Patrol via AP, File).
Prosecutor asks judge to throw out charges against Black truck driver mauled by police dog in Ohio
A prosecutor in Ohio is asking a judge to dismiss charges, at least for now, against a Black truck driver who was bitten by a police dog while he was surrendering along a highway last month.
 
Mauritanians gather for a traditional meal, Friday, July 21, 2023, in Cincinnati. A new surge in migration from Mauritania to the U.S. was made possible by the discovery this year of a new route through Nicaragua, where relaxed entry requirements allow Mauritanians and a handful of other foreign nationals to purchase a low-cost visa without proof of onward travel. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)
Thousands more Mauritanians are making their way to the US, thanks to a route spread on social media
Thousands of migrants from the West African country of Mauritania have arrived in the U.S. in recent months, following a new route taking them to Nicaragua and up through the southern border.
 
The legal team representing the family of Donovan Lewis address the media on Friday, Aug. 4, 2023, in Columbus, Ohio, after a grand jury indicted former officer Ricky Anderson in the fatal shooting of 20-year-old Donovan Lewis. From bottom left, Rebecca Duran, mother of Donovan Lewis, attorneys representing Lewis' family, Rex Elliott, and Michael Wright, and top right, Robert Gresham, and Kaela King, and Lewis' brother Tariq Stewart. (AP Photo/Patrick Orsagos)
Ohio K-9 officer is charged with murder in the death of a 20-year-old Black man shot in his bed
A former Columbus K-9 officer has been indicted on murder charges in the death of a 20-year-old Black man who was lying on his bed when he was shot by police trying to serve a warrant.
 
FILE - This image taken from police body cam video shows a police dog attacking Jadarrius Rose, 23, of Memphis, Tenn., on Tuesday, July 4, 2023, in Circleville, Ohio. An Ohio police department has fired an officer who released his police dog on a surrendering truck driver even after state troopers told him to hold the dog back. A statement issued Wednesday, July 26, 2023, by Circleville police said Ryan Speakman “did not meet the standards and expectations we hold for our police officers” and that he has been “terminated from the department, effective immediately.” (Ohio State Highway Patrol via AP, File).
Ohio police chief says K-9 handler was deceptive during probe of dog attack on surrendering trucker
Documents surrounding the firing of an Ohio police officer who released his police dog on a surrendering truck driver show he was disciplined days before his termination for his behavior afterward.
 
FILE - This image taken from police body cam video shows a police dog attacking Jadarrius Rose, 23, of Memphis, Tenn., on Tuesday, July 4, 2023, in Circleville, Ohio. An Ohio police department has fired an officer who released his police dog on a surrendering truck driver even after state troopers told him to hold the dog back. A statement issued Wednesday, July 26, 2023, by Circleville police said Ryan Speakman “did not meet the standards and expectations we hold for our police officers” and that he has been “terminated from the department, effective immediately.” (Ohio State Highway Patrol via AP, File).
Ohio officer fired after letting his police dog attack a surrendering truck driver
An Ohio police department has fired an officer who released his police dog on a surrendering truck driver even after state troopers told him to hold the dog back.
 
This image taken from police body cam video shows a police dog attacking Jadarrius Rose, 23, of Memphis, Tennessee on Tuesday, July 4, 2023, in Circleville, Ohio. An investigation has been launched into why an Ohio officer allowed his police dog to attack a truck driver who was surrendering with his hands raised, despite State Highway Patrol troopers urging the officer to hold the dog back. (Ohio State Highway Patrol via AP)
Ohio officer put on paid leave amid probe into police dog attack on surrendering truck driver
An Ohio police officer has been put on leave while he’s investigated for releasing his police dog on a surrendering truck driver, even after state troopers told the officer to hold the dog back.