COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – Emojis are taking over for drug terms on social media and other forms of electronic communication, according to a new report from the Ohio Narcotics Intelligence Center. In a bulletin released Thursday by the Ohio Department of Public Safety, the ONIC is warning parents about a way people can communicate with [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (COLUMBUS BUSINESS FIRST) -- The Mall at Tuttle Crossing could be getting a new owner. Jones Lang LaSalle is marketing the Dublin-area property on behalf of a court-appointed receiver that took on that role in January 2021. The listing does not include an asking price. Texas-based The Woodmont Co. has been managing the [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- Federal agents arrested a man suspected of fatally shooting a 23-year-old at a southeast Columbus Sheetz gas station in early March. Malike Miller, 22, was arrested by U.S. Marshals and the Columbus police SWAT team Friday near the 1700 block of Shanley Drive in north Columbus. An arrest warrant was issued [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- A 4-month-old boy who died at a Columbus home in September died from blunt force trauma, according to the Franklin County Coroner. The coroner's office released the autopsy report of Aaron M. Thorp on Friday in which it confirmed his cause of death as blunt force injuries to the head. Thorp, [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — The first graders at Columbus Torah Academy surprised NBC4 with a special thank-you note for featuring the school’s annual simulated Alaskan Iditarod race on our newscast. The letter thanked the station for coming to the Iditarod, "taking videos," and making students "famous." The first graders also noted that it was "really [...]
A previous report on this story can be seen in the video player above. COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – A man accused of killing one woman and injuring another in a Franklinton double shooting faced a judge Friday. Erich Barbee, 30, was arrested Wednesday and received a $5 million bond for a double shooting that happened [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- The philanthropy arm of the City of Columbus is keeping its eye on five "exemplary" nonprofits that are strengthening the central Ohio community. On Monday, The Columbus Foundation tapped five nonprofits -- Black Girl Rising, Elevate Northland, Form5 Prosthetics, Remember Us Urban Scouts and Riverview International Center -- among the list [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- Police have arrested a man who snuck into the women's restroom of an Ohio State University residence hall Thursday afternoon. According to an Ohio State safety notice, a man unaffiliated with the university followed students swiping into Scott House at 12:13 p.m. Thursday, where he walked into a women's restroom. A [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- There will be several highway closures this weekend related to the Ohio Department of Transportation's "Downtown Ramp Up" project. They are as follows:
WASHINGTON, Pa. (WCMH) -- A man faces charges in two states after being found in western Pennsylvania with two abducted children from Zanesville, whose disappearances prompted a statewide Amber Alert Thursday evening. According to Zanesville police, someone identified a 2008 Chevrolet Suburban driving near Washington, Pennsylvania, about 7:55 p.m., some 100 miles from Zanesville. Pennsylvania [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Making a name for yourself on Ohio State's football team is hard enough. It's even more challenging when you're a defensive lineman compared with your older brother who's in the NFL. That's the case for Ohio State senior and Pickerington Central graduate Ty Hamilton, the younger brother of former Buckeye and [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- Columbus has been named one of the hottest housing markets in the nation, even as the number of home sales has fallen compared to last year, according to a new housing report. Columbus Realtors' Central Ohio Housing Report for February said there were 1,728 closed sales in central Ohio last month, [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – As K-12 legislation targeting LBGTQ+ students moves through the Ohio Statehouse, the largest lobbying group for Ohio’s public school boards cannot advocate for or against it. The Ohio School Boards Association, representing more than 700 school boards across the state, can only lobby on issues explicitly outlined in its legislative platform. [...]
Watch an earlier NBC4 report from May 18, 2022, about Thomas DiSario's refusal to remove his 'thin blue line' flag COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – Ohio lawmakers have revived legislation to allow a Pataskala man to fly his “thin blue line” flag scot-free. For nearly six years, Thomas DiSario has proudly flown the striped flag at [...]
FLASH FLOOD WATCH UNTIL 2 P.M. SATURDAY A frontal boundary draped over the Ohio River Valley will be the focus for additional rounds of showers and a few embedded thunderstorms through midday on Saturday. Rain will taper off to showers during the morning as the boundary sags south. Temperatures will hover in the low 40s. [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- Ohio lawmakers are part of a record-breaking national conservative movement pushing anti-LGBTQ legislation, where 340 bills have been introduced in statehouses across the nation that affect states' LGBTQ citizens. Three bills are pending in Ohio that supporters say protect children. "Young people experiencing gender identity disorder deserve to be loved, they [...]
FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP, Ohio (WCMH) - Several central Ohio fire departments will get some use out of the Westland Mall property before it's demolished. Franklin Township firefighters spent part of Wednesday and Thursday training inside a building behind the former mall's main building. "We’ve been working on large open area search and rescue, long hose deployments, [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- One person was fatally shot Thursday night at a gas station on the west side of Columbus. The shooting occurred at the United Dairy Farmers on the 900 block of Norton and Hall roads just before 8:10 p.m., according to dispatchers. Medics on the scene transported the victim to OhioHealth Doctors [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- The multi-billion-dollar transportation budget -- which addresses rail safety and public transportation -- cleared the Ohio Senate floor Thursday with all "yea" votes but was held in the Ohio House, receiving 79 “nay” votes. After senators made several amendments to the transportation budget, some lawmakers are not seeing eye-to-eye and said [...]
ZANESVILLE, Ohio (WCMH) -- A statewide Amber Alert was canceled Thursday evening for two young children who were taken from Zanesville, after they were found more than 100 miles away in western Pennsylvania. The toddler and infant were taken in an unlocked vehicle outside a gas station near 531 Main St. in Zanesville around 5:15 [...]
NELSONVILLE, Ohio (WCMH) -- A woman told detectives she stole tens of thousands of dollars from her grandmother, according to the Hocking County Sheriff's Office. Tawnee Dougherty, 30, of Logan, was arrested last Thursday, after an 82-year-old woman said in February that her bank account had suffered "significant theft." The woman noticed the stolen money [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- Several women said they were ripped off by the owner of an online shoe store. The women waited months for products they paid for that they never received, so they called Better Call 4 to share their message with other shoppers: Buyer beware. "The company is called Monkey Feet, and they [...]
DELAWARE, Ohio (WCMH) -- The Ohio Wesleyan community is remembering sophomore Charley Morris who has been missing with his father for a week after a kayaking accident in Arkansas on spring break. Morris' track and field coaches said the entire campus is in shock after authorities said they have recovered the kayaks but not the [...]
HILLIARD, Ohio (WCMH) — The men's basketball Sweet 16 tips off Thursday and there's one Cinderella team whose clock has not struck midnight yet—15th seeded Princeton. Hilliard Bradley grad Matt Allocco starts at guard for the Tigers who shocked No. 2 Arizona and No. 7 Missouri on their way to the Sweet 16 in Louisville. [...]