PROVIDENCE, R.I.—J.P. Prince scored 18 points, and Brian Williams and Wayne Chism had 12 rebounds apiece yesterday to lead sixth-seeded Tennessee to an 83-68 victory over No. 14 seed Ohio in the second round of the NCAA tournament. It’s the third time in four years Bruce Pearl’s Volunteers have reached the NCAA’s second weekend. The Vols have never gotten past the third round, including losses to Ohio State and Louisville under Pearl in 2007 and ‘08.

Ohio has executed an inmate who robbed and strangled his 67-year-old neighbor in 1994 to get money to buy alcohol.

CLEVELAND ABruce Springsteen exhibit is sticking around for an encore at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The Cleveland museum has announced that its exhibit on The Boss will remain there for the rest of 2010. “From Asbury Park to the Promised Land: The Life and Music of Bruce Springsteen” is one of the most extensive exhibits on a rock star ever presented at the hall.

Ohio has executed a man who killed a convenience store owner and clerk after bragging he would copy a similar movie slaying.

President calls on Congress to enact a new job-creation bill, demanding that it include tax breaks for small business hiring and for people who make their homes more energy efficient.

Ohio has executed a man who shot and killed a Toledo shopkeeper during a 1993 robbery, successfully using its new one-drug lethal injection method for the second time.

For the past few years, neighbors assumed the foul smell enveloping their street corner had been coming from a brick building where workers churned out sausage and head cheese.

Authorities in Ohio now confirm six bodies were found in the home of a rape suspect arrested Saturday.

An 86-year-old Ohio man at the controls of a plane that crashed last year, killing him and five passengers, had been warned not to drive by his eye doctor, according to federal investigators.

Police say an Ohio man has been arrested and charged with murder in the July slaying of a Virginia woman as she worked in her home acupuncture office.

A pediatrician performed sex acts on three teen patients during office visits, slipping them cash payments of about $200 as they left, a prosecutor told jurors Tuesday.

A federal appeals court has halted the execution of a man who strangled his 67-year-old neighbor, citing last month’s failed attempt to execute another inmate in Ohio.

A letter carrier who was shot while delivering mail on his suburban route died late last night, an official said today.

The Butterfly Society of Virginia will host Butterfly Festival 2009 on Sept. 26 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Hampton Roads Agricultural Research and Extension Center in Virginia Beach. The festival is free and will feature speakers, walks in the butterfly garden, a tent filled with local butterflies, and crafts, including tips for raising a caterpillar. Butterfly-related books, novelties and plants to attract butterflies will be available for purchase.

Derris Lewis never got the chance to mourn the death of his identical twin brother, Dennis, after he was shot and killed last year. Now he finally can.