COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – Ohio lawmakers are progressing a proposal that aims to make it easier to prosecute human traffickers, in a move supporters say the state is “dead last” in making. House Bill ...

Two people will spend the next two years in prison for their roles in an illegal prostitution ring operating out of a Symmes ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An Ohio man accused by the Pennsylvania State Police of prostituting women out of a McKean Township motel following an ...

Ohio could become the second state in the nation to create an online “johns” registry, listing and identifying men who are caught buying sex. The proposed registry is meant to make it much more likely ...

An Ohio man has been sentenced to more than three years in prison for using fraud or coercion to get a victim to participate in prostitution.Leon Sims, 41, was sentenced on Tuesday, to 37 months in ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — House lawmakers are on track to advance a key sex trafficking law that supporters say Ohio is “dead last” in enacting. House Bill 507 would create a new felony offense for anyone who ...

Olympic gold medal wrestler Kyle Snyder was among 16 men arrested and charged for his alleged involvement in a prostitution ring in Columbus, Ohio, according to local police. Snyder, 29, who wrestled ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — A former Ohio official has been sentenced to a year in prison on his guilty plea to two counts of compelling prostitution. Prosecutors said 46-year-old Robert McFadden used a Web site ...

An Ohio State University grad and two-time Olympic medalist was arrested in Ohio by police during an undercover prostitution sting.Columbus police said that on Friday, one of their units conducted an ...

An Ohio man accused of taking a 15-year-old girl to Glen Allen for prostitution pleaded not guilty in federal court in Richmond on Tuesday. An indictment earlier this month charged the man, Calvin L.