WASHINGTON — North Country Smokehouse and USA LESS are recalling products that were shipped nationwide. North Country Smokehouse, a Claremont, New Hampshire. establishment, is recalling approximately 2,686 pounds of ready-to-eat sausage products that may be contaminated with extraneous materials, specifically metal, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced.

LIMA (AP) — President Donald Trump on Wednesday brought his re-election campaign to Ohio — a state essential to his 2020 strategy — touring a military tank plant and telling many of its cheering workers: “You better love me. I kept this place open.” Trump also used the visit to criticize John McCain, saying the late senator “didn’t get the …

URBANA (AP) — Gunshots fired inside a dormitory at a small liberal arts college in central Ohio have resulted in a lockdown and the arrest of two students. The Urbana Daily Citizen reports Urbana Police Chief Matt Lingrell says no one was injured Tuesday afternoon at Urbana University, roughly 45 miles (72 kilometers) west of Columbus. The school was placed …

DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — A 911 call at a sprawling Air Force base on Thursday sent armored vehicles and unmarked police cars rushing to a medical center where people hid behind locked doors until authorities determined there was no threat. During an extensive search after the call, a security team member shot through a locked door while checking rooms throughout …

MEDINA (AP) — Police in Ohio are searching for a jail inmate who jumped out of the back of an ambulance. The Medina County Sheriff’s Department says 22-year-old Joshua Bragg was at Cleveland Clinic-Medina Hospital Sunday evening when he unbuckled himself from an ambulance and ran away. Authorities say Bragg was on medical furlough at the time, but they have …

SANDUSKY (AP) — A power outage at an amusement park in Ohio left riders stranded on some of its roller coasters and other rides. A spokesman for Cedar Point in Sandusky says the outage Monday afternoon was caused by a car that hit a utility pole. Crews were able to restore power within about two hours. Photos shared on social …

COLUMBUS (AP) — Police in Ohio’s capital city say fancy footwork outside a library tripped up an armed suspect’s efforts to flee from police. WCMH-TV reports a man identified by Columbus police only as “Bill” is seen in a video April 3 sticking out his leg and sending a man with a handgun tucked in his waistband tumbling to the …

CINCINNATI (AP) — Authorities in Cincinnati pledged Thursday to find out what went wrong in the death of a 16-year-old boy they say became trapped by a minivan bench seat in a school parking lot. His body was found about six hours after he first called 911. Police Chief Eliot Isaac said something went “terribly wrong” in Kyle Plush’s death. …

VERMILION (AP) — Authorities say an out-of-control ambulance has run off a road and crashed in Ohio, killing a patient and injuring the driver and an emergency medical service attendant. The State Highway Patrol says the crash occurred Thursday afternoon just outside Vermilion, about 45 miles west of Cleveland. Patrol Lt. Brett Gockstetter says the driver may have suffered a …

COLUMBUS (AP) — Ohio Supreme Court justices began weighing arguments in a hot-button case over how Ohio calculated funding for one of the nation’s largest online charter schools after grilling both sides’ attorneys for nearly an hour on Tuesday. The case’s outcome will determine the survival of the now-closed Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow, and it also could have a broader …