COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – Ohio lawmakers have resurrected an effort to strip the State Board of Education of most of its powers and hand the reins instead to the governor’s office. After a Republican-backed bill transferring control over Ohio’s education policy to a cabinet-level position within the governor’s office failed in last year’s General Assembly, [...]
ABOVE: Watch a previous report on Sinzae Reed's family and supporters calling for justice at a rally at Columbus City Hall last week. COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- The death of a 13-year-old boy on Columbus's west side has been ruled a homicide by the Franklin County coroner. According to the report released Tuesday, Sinzae Reed [...]
MARION, Ohio (WCMH) – Marion County Sheriff's Captain Ken Rittenour pulled over a vehicle for an equipment violation and ended up arresting a suspect on drug charges. On Jan. 15, Ortavious Hood Jr., a 27-year-old on probation from drug charges in 2015, was pulled over in the parking lot of a Panda Express along State [...]
HILLIARD, Ohio (WCMH) -- Several central Ohio parents are suing Hilliard City Schools, alleging teachers are having "intimate sexual conversations" with students and calling for the removal of badges supporting LGBTQ+ students. Eight Hilliard parents say school officials are allowing "activist teachers" to facilitate conversations on sexual orientation and gender identity with children as young [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) - The Franklinton neighborhood is about to get a new hotel with a slew of amenities even for those who don't need a room. NBC4 toured the Junto as construction crews bustled through its unfinished corridors. Rockbridge, the company behind the hotel, is working to meet a projected opening date in May, [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- WWE fans in Columbus will have another chance this Spring to watch some Friday night Smackdown. Tuesday morning, it was announced that a 2023 WWE Smackdown will take place at the Schottenstein Center on April 21 at 7:45 p.m. Among the multiple wrestlers that will appear in Columbus include Braun Strowman, [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- The two suspects charged with murder for the death of an eight-month-old boy last week have had their bonds set in Franklin County court. The boy’s mother, Savanna Dawn Dawson, 23, and her boyfriend, Kyrios Lobentit March Jr., 24, appeared for their arraignment hearing with a bond of $1.5 million set for each [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- NBC4 is proud to sponsor the second annual HBCU Classic For Columbus College Basketball All-Star Game and Celebrity Extravaganza. A news conference was held Tuesday to announce new plans and events surrounding the 2023 All-Star Game that is set to take place on April 22 at the Schottenstein Center. You can [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – A child has been recovered and is safe after a car was stolen with the child still inside in the Northland area of Columbus. Columbus police received a call at 8:20 a.m. that a man stole a 2017 white Lexus SUV on the 2400 block of Strimple Avenue. Inside the car [...]
An earlier report can be seen in the video player above. CLEVELAND (WCMH) -- A Republican state senator has put his name in the mix again to become a U.S. Senator. Matt Dolan officially announced Tuesday he will run again in Ohio as a GOP challenger to Sherrod Brown (D-OH) in the 2024 election. On [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- A florist with stores in and around the Buckeye State will celebrate its new Columbus location with a grand opening Tuesday -- promising arrangement giveaways to some customers, and free flowers for a year to one. Oberer's Flowers closed its former Columbus location but relocated to a new storefront at 5757 [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – The Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission wants the public’s feedback on how it decided to spend $148 million of the Biden administration’s dollars. In its largest funding commitment to date, the planning agency for Columbus’ urban area proposed last week a slate of 23 much-needed transportation and infrastructure projects that it aims [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- Parents and students backed by a national legal group are challenging an Ohio school district in federal court for allowing transgender students to use communal restrooms consistent with their gender identity. American First Legal is suing Dayton-area Bethel Local School District, alleging school officials violated the religious liberty of 18 anonymous [...]
QUICK WEATHER FORECAST: FORECAST DISCUSSION: Happy Tuesday! Leftover shower activity is lightening, and will taper off for the most part by about the morning commute, leaving us with just a bit of a sheen out there on the roads. Good news is, temperatures are well above freezing, starting off in the low to middle 40s [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – A multi-million-dollar federal grant is on its way to Columbus Public Health (CPH) with the city’s health commissioner saying it will help make some significant differences. The grant, worth a little more than $9 million, will be handed out over a five-year period. Columbus Public Health Commissioner Dr. Mysheika Roberts said [...]
DUBLIN, Ohio (WCMH) -- A burst sewer pipe at Dublin Scioto High School in the Dublin City School District has students and staff adjusting to some temporary changes as work to fix the problem gets underway. In a notice posted on the district’s website, the issue was discovered Friday when a main sewer line 12 [...]
ABOVE: Watch a previous report on Saturday's fatal shooting outside a south Columbus McDonald's. COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- A Columbus restaurant is remembering one of its employees, a man who was shot and killed this past weekend in south Columbus. Christopher Mateen, 43, was killed outside of the McDonald's on the 3500 block of South [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- There is no better way to honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. than by giving back to families in need. One thousand pairs of shoes were given to Columbus children for free thanks to a partnership between a former Ohio State University athlete and a nonprofit organization. Emma Goldean, a standout [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – It was August 1991 when Eddie Bell’s body was carried out of her home, killed by her 16-year-old son Johnny Bell. Lynette Grace was staying at the Bell home that night. Eddie Bell was the mother Grace felt she never had. “I went to the basement and found my spiritual mother [...]
Columbus and Central Ohio Weather QUICK WEATHER FORECAST: FORECAST DISCUSSION: Happy Monday! Rain is on the way tonight ahead of warmer temperatures and another round of rain. As a warm front moves toward the area tonight, it is kicking up a southerly breeze and the next chance for showers. Rainfall will become more widespread through [...]