In this July 19, 2011, file photo, Rep. Betty Sutton, D-Ohio takes part in a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington to discuss their support for a bill that will penalize criminals who finance and bring children to dogfights and cockfights. Sutton plans to jump into the 2018 Ohio governor's race, bringing a solid track record of election wins and fundraising that could position her as the initial Democratic front-runner.
In this recent photo, Brady Long, left, bags groceries at Buehler's Fresh Foods at Forest Meadows in Medina, Ohio. Long, a 23-year-old University of Akron accounting student, has been named the nation's top grocery bagger after claiming the Ohio title two years in a row.
In a Jan 6, 2017 photo, a silhouette marks the empty frame for former Toledo mayor James Berdan during a reception to honor the 180th anniversary of the City of Toledo, featuring the historic "Portraits of Toledo Mayors", in Toledo, Ohio. A new display featuring the former mayors of Ohio's fourth-largest city turned up a discovery: a photo thought to be of Berdan, Toledo's first mayor, is actually a photo of his son.
In this Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2016, photo, Trooper Mike Wilson of the Ohio State Highway Patrol leads his drug-sniffing dog partner "Pluto," a Dutch shepherd, past a truck stopped on I-70 in Madison County, Ohio. The patrol has doubled the number of K-9 units to 34 in recent years as part of its efforts to find more drugs as Ohio battles an unprecedented number of overdose deaths.
The Dispatch struck a chord - or was it a pothole? - when it asked readers last month to suggest unusual street names. Dozens of readers responded, including a Worthington woman who wanted to let us know how Eulalia Avenue, one of the peculiar streets mentioned by The Dispatch, got its name.