COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- Bruce Springsteen's concert in Columbus on Thursday has been postponed. Springsteen and the E Street Band were scheduled to perform at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday at Nationwide Arena. LiveNation said the performance needed to be postponed due to illness and are working on rescheduling the date. Those who purchased admission are [...]
CINCINNATI (WCMH) - The jury in Ohio's largest corruption case has reached a verdict. Former Speaker of the Ohio House Larry Householder, and former state Republican Party Chairman Matt Borges were both accused of taking a $60 million bribe from FirstEnergy to pass a bailout bill for the power company's nuclear plants. Formally, prosecutors charged [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – Former Bloom-Carroll Athletic Director Chad Little is looking at prison time after an appearance in court Thursday for sexual battery charges. Little, who was indicted in September on four counts of sexual battery, changed his plea to guilty in February and asked to have his Feb. 7 trial vacated. Part of [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – A man at an eastside Columbus gas station was found slumped over in a "brand new" Tesla, while parked next to an air pump, according to the Franklin County Sheriff's Office. Franklin County deputies were called at 2 a.m. on Wednesday to a speedway on Noe Bixby Road in the Blacklick [...]
A previous report on this incident can be viewed in the video player above. COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- Columbus police are expected to provide additional information on Thursday about a body found in a Brown County landfill. Investigators confirmed Wednesday that the body, which was found in a Rumpke landfill in Georgetown, Ohio, approximately 50 [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- The WonderBus Music & Arts Festival, central Ohio’s largest contemporary music festival, is returning to Columbus this summer. This year, Grammy, ALMA, BMI and Billboard Music Award-winning Pitbull will kick off the festivities, which will take place August 25-27 at The Lawn at CAS near Olentangy River Road, just east of [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- The owners of Latitude Five25 — an apartment complex plagued by bedbugs, broken elevators, asbestos, burst pipes and deemed unsafe to live in — are facing a potential dismissal of their bankruptcy filing if the company doesn't comply with a New Jersey judge. Paxe Latitude, the management company that owns the 394-unit [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- The former treasurer of a Columbus K-8 charter school racked up more than $70,000 in fines after failing to disclose tax withholdings to the IRS. Ohio Auditor Keith Faber issued a $70,195 finding of recovery Thursday against Candace Wyant, the former treasurer of A+ Arts Academy, after she missed several required [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) - Persephone, a dog up for adoption at the Franklin County Dog Shelter, has some special needs but also a lot of love once she opens up. The pit bull mix has come a long way from when she was found as a stray in October 2021. Her foster mom, Maria Onest, [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- From musician Bruce Springsteen and country singer Blake Shelton at Nationwide Arena to the Columbus Brew Festival, here are things to see and do this weekend in central Ohio. Bruce Springsteen at Nationwide Arena: March 9 The 73-year-old musician is performing in Columbus with the E Street Brand. Nationwide Arena – 200 [...]
MANSFIELD, Ohio (WCMH) -- Caverns unearthed in central Ohio five years ago are now home to an upscale restaurant offering an eight-course fine-dining experience. Prohibition at the Caverns welcomes guests at the rear of 51 E. Fourth St., across from The Warehouse Tavern and City Grille in downtown Mansfield. The restaurant sits nearly 30 feet [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – Growers, processors and sellers of Ohio’s medical marijuana sounded the alarm Tuesday about lawmakers’ approach to keeping the drug’s industry afloat. Amid a medical marijuana program that’s hindered by a surplus of product and a dwindling patient population, Sens. Stephen Huffman (R-Tipp City) and Kirk Schuring (R-Canton) revived in January a [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – A fatal fiery car crash Wednesday night in the South Side of Columbus, remains under investigation this morning. According to Columbus police, at around 10:30 p.m., a 2010 GMC Terrain heading southbound on Lockbourne Road veered off of the right side of the street and struck a utility poll at the [...]
QUICK WEATHER FORECAST: FORECAST DISCUSSION: Happy Thursday! Today will be our nicest day of the extended period, with just partly cloudy skies, and highs topping out in the lower 50s. Expect dry conditions throughout most of the day before rain arrives late this evening and overnight into Friday. Expect rain throughout Friday morning, gradually lightening [...]
BEXLEY, Ohio (WCMH) – The Bexley City Schools Board of Education is considering updating its district policies. Some of the updates discussed at a board meeting Wednesday include clarifying what constitutes inappropriate behavior. The proposed changes would include “derogatory statements about others’ race, color, ethnicity, religion, gender, abilities, or sexual orientation.” Board members said the [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- Local anti-violence non-profit Halt Violence has opened its doors on a new location on Columbus' west side. The spot at 2360 W. Broad St. will be a three-year lease for the program to extend services from its 923 E. Broad St location. "We aren't alarmed by what we hear because it's [...]
CHICAGO (WCMH) — The Ohio State men's basketball team survived a furious comeback attempt from Wisconsin as the Buckeyes beat the Badgers 65-57 Wednesday to advance to the second round of the Big Ten Tournament. The Buckeyes led by as many 27 points in the second half, but Wisconsin went on a 18-2 run during [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- The search for the next superintendent of Columbus City Schools (CCS) is underway. Dr. Angela Chapman has been serving as interim superintendent since January. Dr. Talisa Dixon announced in December she was retiring. At a meeting Tuesday, the school board approved hiring Ray and Associates to help with the search and [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- In the coming weekends, people can expect to see a heavier police presence on weekends in the Short North as part of the Short North Alliance’s efforts to stop violence in the arts district. The group just released statistics from its Crime Interdiction Program in 2022, a collaborative effort between the [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- A Columbus man will spend at least the next six years in prison for his role in a robbery that resulted in a fatal shooting in December 2021. Eric Shaw, 21, pleaded guilty Wednesday to robbery with a gun specification and was sentenced to between six and seven and one-half years [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- A newly proposed bill moving through the Ohio Statehouse would decrease the age requirement an Ohioan must be to join the police force. Right now, to become a police officer in Ohio, applicants must be 21 years old, but Senate Bill 53 would drop that age requirement to 18. The bill [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – The Ohio attorney general has rejected a proposed state constitutional amendment that would have ended qualified immunity for state workers. In rejecting the proposal, Ohio Attorney General David Yost wrote, “We identified omissions and misstatements that, as a whole, would mislead a potential signer as to the actual scope and effect [...]