A man and a woman in Ohio, US, have been charged with child endangerment after their 8-year-old son reportedly overdosed on heroin

Surveillance video shows a mother's attempt to hand her toddler to a drive-thru worker as she battles the child's father who allegedly kidnapped her.

A son has published heart-wrenching video filmed with his mother, who has dementia, as she forgets who he is for the first time.

This heart-wrenching video shows a son filming his mother with dementia as she forgets who he is for the first time.

A father and son accused of raping a teenage girl over a three-year period have made it clear that they don't have faith in the law or in the people who practice it.

Ohio's youngest death-row inmate never touched the murder weapon. So why was he sentenced to death?

Just because the election is over doesn't mean that the president-elect is done campaigning or rallying his most devoted supporters.

In an August interview, Abdul Razak Ali Artan seemed thoughtful, but also concerned about how Muslims are treated.

The suspect in a knife attack at Ohio that injured 11 people posted an online rant shortly before he drove his car into a crowd and began stabbing people.

The NZ Herald visited 10 counties in four key battleground states on an eight-day road trip to New York and the greatest election shock in modern American history.

A man has filmed his son's heartbreak when told his mother overdosed on heroin. He says he shared it to send a message.

Sierah Joughin, with her long brown hair and big smile looked like many young college girls with their lives ahead of them. But her's was to be cut short.

Hillary Clinton has secured an unlikely but powerful wingwoman. And she's just gone to town on Republican rival Donald Trump.

Fears that a serial killer is at work are mounting as more bodies are found around Ohio creeks.

This state in the heart of the Great Lakes region will give travellers a taste of authentic America.

A US teenager has accused Instagram of size discrimination after it suspended her account because a relatively chaste series of underwear selfies “violated community guidelines”.

Ohio’s state execution team has been cleared to execute an inmate using a never-before-tried combination of drugs which lawyers say may leave him writhing in agony.

A neighbor has been arrested in the killing of a 9-year-old Ohio girl whose body was found in a rubbish bin near her home after a frantic search by authorities and residents.