News Releases

Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine announced today that he is awarding more than $2.6 million in grants to create five Trauma Recovery Centers in Ohio that will provide crisis intervention to hospitalized traumatic violent crime victims.

Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine today announced a multistate settlement with Western Union to establish a comprehensive anti-fraud program to help prevent consumers from sending money to con artists using Western Union products.

Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine today warned that since Friday, several Ohioans have reported suspicious calls from callers asking “Can you hear me?”

Ahead of Data Privacy Day (January 28), Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine today issued an update on his office’s Identity Theft Unit, which helps victims correct the effects of identity theft.

Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine joined Greene County Sheriff Gene Fischer today to announce the arrests of two Ohio brothers in connection with a recent double homicide in Miami Township (Greene County) near Yellow Springs.  Dustin Merrick, 25, of Xenia, has been charged with two counts of aggravated murder.  Bret Merrick, 24, of Miami Township (Montgomery County), has been charged with two counts of complicity to aggravated murder, two counts of complicity to aggravated burglary, and one count of felonious assault.

During today's meeting of the Ohio Attorney General's Human Trafficking Commission, Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine announced two new efforts underway in the Ohio Attorney General's Office to assist human trafficking victims and prevent victimization of high-risk youth.

Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine today announced a consumer protection lawsuit against a Hilliard man accused of failing to deliver promised home improvement services to consumers.

Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine and West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey today led a group of 13 states in challenging the federal government’s “Stream Protection Rule” as drastically and illegally limiting coal mining in disregard of state regulatory authority. The states filed suit in federal court, and many also asked Congress to revoke the last-minute Obama Administration regulation.

Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine today announced a lawsuit against a Columbus man accused of failing to deliver home improvement services that he advertised on Craigslist and sold to consumers.

Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine and Marion County Sheriff Tim Bailey today released the facial reconstruction of a woman whose skeletal remains were found in 2007.