News Releases

Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine today announced a lawsuit against a roofer accused of failing to deliver promised services to consumers in northeast Ohio.

 Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine today joined Karen Walsh, Director of the Collaborative to End Human Trafficking, and members of Greater Cleveland's Coordinated Response to Human Trafficking, to unveil a new human trafficking awareness campaign in northeast Ohio.

 Bowling Green State University President Mary Ellen Mazey and Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine today announced that the university and the Ohio Attorney General’s Office have been awarded nearly $440,000 in grant funding from the Laura and John Arnold Foundation.  The grant will be used by the university and the Ohio Attorney General’s Center for the Future of Forensic Science to help identify ways to streamline the analytical process of testing Sexual Assault Kits (SAKs). 

Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine and Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Timothy McGinty announced today that a suspected serial rapist has been indicted on charges linking him to the sexual assaults of seven women over a period of ten years.

Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine today announced Ohio’s participation in a multistate settlement requiring Volkswagen to pay more than $570 million for violating state laws prohibiting unfair or deceptive trade practices by marketing, selling, and leasing diesel vehicles equipped with illegal and undisclosed “defeat device” software.

Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine, Pickaway County Prosecutor Judy Wolford, Circleville Police Chief Shawn Baer, Pickaway County Sheriff Robert Radcliff, and Circleville Mayor Don McIlroy announced today that the 11 individuals identified last year as the leaders of a Circleville-area drug trafficking organization have all been sentenced to prison. 

Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine today issued the following statement on the death of John F. Wolfe. 

Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine today warned Ohioans to beware of home repair scams following the severe storms that swept through the state.

Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine issued the following statement after the United States Supreme Court decision in United States v. Texas, which Ohio joined:

The Ohio Attorney General’s Office today rejected the petition for the proposed “The Amendment to Return Prayer to Our Public Schools” because the petition contained a technical defect that prevented the submission from being approved.