Storms with heavy rain, high winds and hail knocked out power Monday and flooded homes and roads in Ohio and Indiana, and three homes in Kentucky were destroyed in what state police called an apparent tornado.

Sandbags were being distributed in Findlay, a city about 45 miles south of Toledo, and officials made individual warning calls to downtown businesses Monday because of the threat of yet another in a series of major floods along the Blanchard River.

East of Cleveland, about 100 people living near Painesville were ordered to leave their homes Monday morning because of flooding on the Chagrin and Lake Rivers, Lake County emergency management director Larry Greene said.

Investigators looking for clues to the disappearance of an elderly Ohio couple suspended a search of a Cincinnati-area landfill on Monday because of impending thunderstorms in the region and plan to continue their work Tuesday.

The couple’s car was last seen Wednesday parked near an Interstate 75 rest area, about 100 miles southwest of their Bellefontaine home. Trash from the rest area was dumped at the Rumpke landfill.

A member of the Ohio Board of Education has filed a federal lawsuit against Gov. John Kasich after she says she was illegally removed from the board.

Martha Harris, who began a four-year term in January, 2009, showed up for a board meeting Monday at the Ohio School for the Deaf only to be told she was no longer on the board.

“I have the right to due process as a citizen of the United States of America and it was not afforded to me,” Harris said. “I learned about this like everybody else has learned about it, through the media.”

Ohio’s governor says a deadly shooting at a college fraternity party is a sign of larger problems that need to be dealt with in the northeast Ohio city where it happened.

Gov. John Kasich (KAY’-sik) told officials in Youngstown on Monday that he will have Ohio’s public safety chief and the State Highway Patrol commander meet with the city’s mayor. The Tribune Chronicle of Warren reports the governor said the three could work together on a plan to fight crime, gun violence, drugs and underage drinking in Youngstown.

A Youngstown State University student was killed and 11 people were injured in gunfire early Sunday at the Omega Psi Phi fraternity house. Two suspects were expected to appear in court Tuesday.

Ohio EPA officials say DHL Express has agreed to pay an $80,000 penalty over contaminated storm water discharge from an airport the shipper owned in southwest Ohio.

The Environmental Protection Agency said Monday that DHL increased the number of aircraft at the airport in Wilmington in 2004, increasing the amount of wastewater containing de-icing chemicals. The EPA says the airport treatment system couldn’t handle the amount and concentration.

State officials investigated in 2008 and believe a fish and wildlife kill and water quality standard violations resulted from inadequately treated storm water.

The Ohio State women’s lacrosse team is scheduled to appear at least twice on the Big Ten Network this season, announced recently by the national network. The Buckeyes will travel to University College, Pa., and face Penn State April 17 before welcoming Johns Hopkins to Jesse Owens Memorial Stadium April 30.

The contest vs. the Nittany Lions is set for 1:00 p.m. Sunday, April 17 and will be shown on same-day delay beginning at 4:00 p.m. The Blue Jays and Buckeyes will compete live on Big Ten Network at 1:00 p.m. Saturday, April 30. Television talent for both games is to be determined.

The part-owner to one of Ohio’s only exotic animal auctions is trying to figure out how an executive order by exiting Gov. Ted Strickland will affect his business.

Thurman Mullet, who owns the Mount Hope Auction with his brother, Steve, was still learning about the order on Jan. 7, which ultimately bans ownership, sale and breeding of certain “dangerous wild animals.”

Strickland made the announcement Jan. 6, following a deal he brokered in late June with the animal rights organization Humane Society of the United States, and Ohio’s farm leaders, to prevent an animal care ballot initiative by HSUS.

Since the ban announcement, farmers, pet owners and consumers have been busy trying to figure out what it means, and how it may affect their own businesses.

A 10-year-old boy is in juvenile custody after telling a neighbor that he had shot and killed his mother, an Ohio sheriff said Monday.

Deborah McVay, 46, was found dead of a single gunshot wound to the head Sunday night in Big Prairie, located about midway between Cleveland and Columbus, said Holmes County Sheriff Tim Zimmerly.

Paramedics found McVay lying facedown on her living room floor, and she was pronounced dead at the scene, Zimmerly said. Authorities went to the home after a neighbor called a sheriff’s dispatcher to say McVay’s son had come to her home and said he had just shot his mother.

The Ohio Supreme Court on Monday upheld a state sales tax for satellite TV providers that cable competitors don’t have to pay, affirming an appeals court decision.

The satellite sales tax was ruled constitutional by the state’s high court in a 5-2 decision, with Justices Eric Brown and Paul Pfeifer dissenting. Satellite providers DirecTV Inc. (NASDAQ:DTV) and EchoStar Satellite Corp. (NASDAQ:SATS) brought the case to the Supreme Court, claiming the tax puts out-of-state companies at a disadvantage and favors cable providers with a major presence in the state. The companies have challenged similar tax discrepancies in other states.

When Laurie Russo, of Cincinnati, started receiving threatening and violent phone calls from a man who was stalking her, she called police.

But, reports CBS News National Correspondent Jeff Glor, in the end, it was a process she developed on her own that put the Cincinnati woman’s stalker behind bars.

For four months, a terrified Laurie Russo received the disturbing calls — and she had no idea who was calling.