News Releases

Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost, members of the Ohio Peace Officer Training Commission, and law enforcement officers from throughout the state paid tribute today to eight Ohio peace officers– eight heroes – who died in the line of duty in the past several years.

A preliminary injunction has been issued against Michael Peppel and his Ohio Clean Water Fund for soliciting money under the guise of aiding East Palestine residents, Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost announced today.

A former Knox County sheriff’s deputy pleaded guilty today on six felony charges related to theft from an elderly woman with Alzheimer’s disease, Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost announced today.

A former inmate of the Mahoning County jail pleaded guilty and was sentenced to prison today for raping a deputy, Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost announced today.

STEAMM Middle School student Zabree Virola wants to stop youth violence, and she has a solution she thinks can help.

Zanesville Middle School student Evan Woerner is fearful of peer pressure making him do something that might affect him for the rest of his life.

Following Delaware County Common Pleas Judge David M. Gromley’s ruling today prohibiting the city of Columbus from enforcing ordinances outlawing certain firearm magazines and implementing gun-storage restrictions, Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost issued the following statement:

On the eve of the global observance of Earth Day, Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost and his Environmental Enforcement team unveiled a $1.1 million initiative to help communities statewide crack down on polluters who use their backyard – or someone else’s property – as an enormous garbage can.

Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost is leading a coalition of 15 attorneys general in urging the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11^th Circuit to affirm states’ authority to remove local prosecutors who refuse to put the law ahead of their personal politics.

After more than a week of testimony and evidence, a Summit County grand jury today declined to indict eight law enforcement officers from the Akron Police Department in the death last year of Jayland Walker, Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost announced today.