Insurrection

Republican U.S. Senator Rob Portman says he’s concerned about the U.S. House committee that is looking into the January 6th attack on the nation’s Capitol building.

Former President Donald Trump visited Lorain County Saturday for the first of a series of rallies to support Republican congressional candidates.

Both of Ohio’s U.S. Senators voted for the establishment of a commission to investigate the January 6 insurrection at the Capitol.

Democrats in Congress are pushing for a full investigation into the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol building this past January. One U.S. Senator from Ohio has some concerns about it if it comes to the floor.

Federal agents arrested a Canton man Monday for his involvement in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. John Douglas Wright has been charged in federal court in Washington, D.C., with engaging in violence in a restricted building, obstruction of law enforcement during civil disorder, obstruction of justice and lying to federal agents.

The FBI says an Ohio couple linked to the Oath Keepers militia group were among those involved in last month's breach of the U.S. Capitol.

Senator Sherrod Brown has concerns about the message those who perpetrated the attack on the Capitol will take from a decision to acquit former President Donald Trump.

A Democratic Ohio Senator is urging her colleagues in the Ohio Legislature to pass a resolution that denounces the violence caused at the Jan. 6 insurrection in Washington DC. But that's not all it does.

Two Champaign County residents who are members of the far-right Ohio State Regular Militia were arrested over the weekend on federal charges that they joined the U.S. Capitol insurrection on January 6.

The Ohio Statehouse and state office buildings downtown will be closed from Sunday-Wednesday to prepare for armed protests ahead of President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration.