QUICK WEATHER FORECAST: FORECAST DISCUSSION: Good Friday Night, After a cloudy and cool day, skies will slowly clear tonight as clouds will finally start to move off to the east overnight tonight. This will set us up for a chilly night with temps about 7-10 degrees below normal. This means a frosty start to the [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- The leader of public education in Ohio is taking another position. Stephanie Siddens, the Ohio Department of Education's interim superintendent of public instruction, announced on Twitter Friday afternoon that she is leaving the role to become deputy superintendent of Upper Arlington City School District. Her announcement comes as the State Board [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — A special dog named Maverick celebrated his first birthday with a significant milestone under his belt. The male Goldador Retriever recently completed his training and certification through The Alliance of Therapy Dogs and is now a Columbus police therapy dog. Maverick was acquired through a donation from Sheryl Aeschliman at Buckeye [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- A minor is in critical condition after two cars crashed head-on Friday on the west side of Columbus. Around 10:15 a.m., a 2011 Honda Civic traveling eastbound on Fisher Road crashed head-on into a 2016 Ford F450 truck going in the opposite direction, the Franklin County Sheriff's Office said in a [...]
CINCINNATI, Ohio (WCMH) -- Cincinnati Bengals running back Joe Mixon on Friday was criminally charged -- for the second time -- in connection to a January road rage-induced argument. The Cincinnati Police Department refiled a misdemeanor aggravated menacing charge against Mixon, 26, after new evidence emerged during its investigation into accusations that the Bengals player, [...]
FRANKLIN COUNTY, Ohio (WCMH) -- A Franklin County motorist died Thursday morning after their car crashed into a concrete culvert and rolled into a creek. Just after 7 a.m., the motorist -- whose identity has yet to be disclosed -- was driving northbound on Harrisburg Georgesville Road north of Gay Road in Pleasant Township. Their [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- A Columbus man was convicted Thursday of fatally shooting the mother of his three children in 2021. A Franklin County jury found Cortez Jackson, 33, guilty of murdering his 34-year-old girlfriend Alyse Edwards at a Hilltop apartment in August 2021 and later tampering with evidence connected to the case, according to [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Ohio State undergoing a potential play-calling shift under receivers coach Brian Hartline has been well documented this spring. There's another Buckeyes coach getting an opportunity to stand out with Kevin Wilson's departure to Tulsa. "I have not made it," first-year tight end coach Keenen Bailey said. "Have I had an exhale [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- Breweries are honoring the end of the Prohibition Era exactly 90 years ago with National Beer Day on Friday. The Cullen-Harrison Act, signed on April 7, 1933, permitted the manufacturing and sale of low-alcohol beers and wines after 13 years of Prohibition. Now, taprooms across the United States celebrate the historic [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- The top home sold in Franklin County last month went for $2.3 million, while the top home in Delaware County went for $2.1 million. NBC4 analyzed daily property sale records from the Franklin and Delaware County auditor’s offices and filtered for "one family dwellings" to not include apartments, duplexes, or unrelated [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- The Columbus Zoo and Aquarium is welcoming the spring season with "egg-streme" fun at this weekend's Eggs, Paws and Claws celebration. At the two-day, Kroger-sponsored event that kicks off Friday, visitors to the Zoo can snap a photo with the Easter Bunny, hunt for hidden eggs and even watch their favorite [...]
NELSONVILLE, Ohio (WCMH) -- When Nelsonville City Council meets Monday night, it should be able to establish a quorum and conduct official business. The same couldn’t be said a week ago, when four public resignation announcements -- a majority of which were short-lived -- meant only three members sat on the body that budgets and [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- In the wake of a stormy period, high pressure will build over the region and settle in for the holiday weekend. After a chilly morning in the mid-30s, we'll see sunshine filtered by high clouds. Temperatures will be a little below normal, with highs in the mid-50s. Tonight will be on [...]
PLEASANTVILLE, Ohio (WCMH) -- It only takes seconds for a storm to cause major damage, but that wreckage could take months to clean up -- and parts of central Ohio have been pummeled by storms in the last few weeks. Fairfield County was one of the hardest hit Wednesday night. “A lot of big trees [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- Local organization Community Crime Patrol (CCP) has $375,000 headed its way from the city of Columbus. CCP is a crime prevention group that hires citizen patrollers to bike and walk through neighborhoods and parks across the city, working to increase safety in Columbus. Equipped only with flashlights, two-way radios, and their [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- Police officers face a variety of challenges when they're sent out on a call, but one officer with the Columbus Division of Police is using his experiences as a father, to reduce those challenges for community members that fall on the Autism spectrum. "It's something that we didn't really have at [...]
HILLIARD, Ohio (WCMH) -- The Hilliard Division of Police (HPD) is being recognized nationally. Two of the division's sergeants and one detective are featured in a campaign highlighting women in law enforcement created by Galls, a national supplier of public safety clothes and equipment. "It was extremely exciting to be part of this campaign. We just [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- Don Edwards said he was a customer of mobile banking app, GO2bank, for about 18 months. "They gave you your money, like, anywhere from three to five days early, even though the deposit doesn't come in until the first," Edwards said. "Never had a problem or an issue before." Before September [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- The Columbus Promise program is aiming to get prospective students excited about college by hosting them at Columbus State Community College. In its first year, the program paid for more than 700 students to attend their first year of college at Columbus State Community College. Coordinators said they are on pace [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- A new law, referred to as Marsy's Law, went into effect on Thursday, expanding the rights of crime victims in Ohio. In 2017, 83% of Ohioans voted in favor of putting Marsy’s Law into the Ohio’s Constitution. Since then, the bill’s sponsor, Representative Andrea White (R-Kettering), said rights have been unclear [...]
Watch the surveillance footage in the video player above. COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- Investigators have released surveillance video after a 14-year-old was reported missing and later found shot and killed in west Columbus last year. Officers responded to the 300 block of South Terrace Avenue around 8 a.m. on March 5, 2022., after report of [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- Homicide rates in Columbus are again trending upward -- and the increase has some community members sounding the alarm. There have been 44 homicides so far in 2023, according to Columbus police – nearly 50% higher than the 30 homicides by this time in 2022. Office of Violence Prevention Director Rena [...]
QUICK WEATHER FORECAST: FORECAST DISCUSSION: Good Thursday evening, It has been a cool and at times drizzly day today, as a weather system slowly pulls away from our area today. It will continue to keep clouds and cool temps through the overnight tonight with lows a few degrees below normal in the middle to upper [...]