DUBLIN (WCMH) – Dublin authorities have arrested and charged Rashawn Kelly with the death of two individuals who overdosed on drugs, drugs police said he supplied. According to police, they were investigating Kelly over the course of several months and had been surveilling him at multiple locations throughout Ohio. “One of our goals remains demonstrating [...]
German Village, Ohio (WCMH ) -- About 600 people were without power in the German Village area, but they should see it restored at about 3:25 p.m. According to Columbus Power on social media, crews found the problem on SR 104 near the Scioto River, but it should now be restored.
COLUMBUS (WCMH) – Forty-five employees at a Columbus nursing home have been paid more than $81,000 in back pay, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. An investigation carried out by the department’s Wage and Hour Division found Chelsea Health Care LLC violated the Fair Labor Standards Act’s overtime requirements to the tune of $81,399 [...]
MUSKINGUM COUNTY (WCMH) – Deputies are searching for Travis C. Robbins, who was last seen in Trinway, Ohio. The Muskingum County Sheriff’s Office says Robbins went missing on Dec. 13. Deputies say he has red hair and blue eyes. He’s described to be 6-foot 4-inches, weighing 230 pounds. Deputies ask anyone with information to call [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- People first in line to receive the COVID-19 vaccine should consider carefully if they plan to refuse, because the next opportunity could be months away. Governor Mike DeWine warned those in the first wave to receive the COVID-19 vaccine that they have limited opportunities to get the shot. "First of all [...]
COLUMBUS (WCMH) -- The Columbus Division of Police has addressed a social media post that claimed officers were giving parking tickets to attendees of Casey Goodson Jr's funeral. A social media post alleged that officers were giving tickets to practically everyone parked in front of Goodson’s mother’s house, who were in the funeral procession. According to CPD, several [...]
COLUMBUS (WCMH) – Gov. Mike DeWine has extended the 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. COVID-19 curfew for at least the next three weeks. The governor made the announcement during a news conference on the coronavirus pandemic Wednesday afternoon. The original three-week curfew had been set to expire on Jan. 2. The new curfew will be [...]
COLUMBUS (WCMH) -- Gov. Mike DeWine provided several updates Wednesday on COVID-19 in Ohio, including extending the statewide curfew through Jan. 23 and issuing new guidelines for quarantining students. As of Dec. 30, a total of 690,740 (+8,178) cases have been reported in Ohio since the pandemic began, leading to 8,855 (+133) deaths and 38,002 (+366) [...]
BEXLEY, Ohio (WCMH) - More than a century ago, Joe Jeanette’s older sister fell victim to the deadly Spanish Flu pandemic as an infant. Wednesday, the 99-year-old took a historic step against another global pandemic. Jeanette was the first Bexley Bickford Senior Living resident to receive a dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. “I’m looking [...]
Biden set a goal of administering 100 million shots of the vaccine within his first 100 days in office, but said to accomplish that, the pace of vaccinations would have to increase five to six times to 1 million shots a day.
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell introduced a new bill to give Americans a boost in COVID-19 relief checks. This came after McConnell earlier in the day put off a vote on President Donald Trump's request to increase the checks to $2,000 and urged the Senate to override his veto of a defense bill.
COLUMBUS (WCMH) – 2020 was a record-breaking year when it comes to new business ventures in the Buckeye state. Secretary of State Frank LaRose said the entrepreneurial spirit is strong, and he’s expecting more than 160,000 new business filings to close out 2020. Betsy Tiano had been working in the restaurant industry for years, but [...]
While a plan passed by the Democrat-led House of Representatives to send larger stimulus checks to Americans fell short in the GOP-controlled Senate Tuesday, more Republicans are voicing support for the measure.
COLUMBUS (WCMH) — Additional information is coming out about the second Columbus police officer who responded to the call in which Andre' Hill was fatally shot. Personnel records for Officer Amy Detweiler show that she has been with the force since 2011. In every annual evaluation, she was rated as meeting or exceeding expectations, although [...]
COLUMBUS (WCMH) -- Thousands of Ohioans are out of a job during this pandemic, but scammers are always at work, coming up with new ways to cheat people out of their money. The Better Business Bureau said scammers are now calling people, under the guise of Amazon, with the intention of ripping them off. The [...]