The cities of Dayton and Columbus have settled a multi-year lawsuit against the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation that alleged the state agency’s background check system is dangerous and broken ...

The City of Columbus and the Ohio Attorney General's office have agreed to a plan to modernize how statewide background checks are conducted. Columbus and Dayton sued the state in 2020 because of ...

Background checks for gun purchases are supposed to be quick, but in some parts of the country they are stretching from minutes into days or even weeks. When that happens, you are left in limbo, ...

The cities of Columbus and Dayton have settled a years-long lawsuit with the state of Ohio over what the cities argued were gaps in the state's criminal background check system. The cities filed suit ...

BOSTON — Expanding criminal background checks for newly arriving migrants and other homeless adults entering the state’s emergency shelter system could cost taxpayers more than $3.3 million a year, ...

TBI still has a backlog of more than 57,000 criminal arrests not linked to court cases. The state is developing a unified court system that will improve background checks, but the project will take ...

Shoppers hunting for Black Friday deals seemed to include a record number of those in the market for firearms; the FBI says it fielded 203,086 background check requests for gun purchases on the day ...