COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – Ohio's Republican-controlled state Senate approved a measure Wednesday to bring back August elections for "special purposes," a move that will likely set up a vote over how much support is required to change the state constitution and that could have a long-term effect on abortion rights. The chamber made a two-pronged [...]
A previous report can be seen in the player above. COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- Columbus police has named a suspect in a March gas station shooting in the Hilltop that sent one man to the hospital. Police have charged 32-year-old Michael Johnson with felonious assault and has a warrant out for his arrest after accusing [...]
Watch a previous NBC4 report on HB 6 in the video player above. COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- Trans athletes in Ohio and LGBTQ+ advocates spoke against a bill banning transgender athletes from taking part in school sports aligned with their gender identity at the Statehouse on Wednesday. House Bill 6 -- the "Save Women’s Sports [...]
Temperatures for Wednesday afternoon will make it to the lower 70s, and we're getting even warmer by Thursday
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – A pedestrian has been hospitalized with life-threatening injuries after being struck at a far east Columbus intersection late Wednesday morning. Columbus police reported that just before 11:15 a.m. a pedestrian was crossing Brice Road at the Scarborough Boulevard and Tussing Road intersection in the Independence Village neighborhood when they were hit [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – Central Ohio Crime Stoppers is seeking assistance in trying to locate a man with 22 felony warrants for rape and gross sexual imposition. Columbus police say that over a period of multiple years, David “Mike” Hashman sexually abused a child under the age of 13 years old. He was indicted on [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- A Broadway musical following American vocal group The Temptations from the streets of Detroit to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is in Columbus this week. "Ain't Too Proud -- The Life and Times of The Temptations" is performing through Sunday at the Ohio Theatre. The critically acclaimed musical received [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- A fleet of blue-and-white branded vehicles will eventually descend on two Columbus neighborhoods to gather air pollution data, with an end goal of determining how the deadly 2021 Yenkin-Majestic plant explosion altered the air nearby residents inhale and exhale. Columbus City Council voted Monday to contract with Aclima, a San-Francisco-based technology [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – Education funding in Ohio is subject to substantial change under the Ohio House's proposed biennial budget. From expanding private school voucher eligibility to increasing the state minimum teacher salary, the budget proposed by state lawmakers builds upon some key aspects of Gov. Mike DeWine’s initial proposal while reducing – and sometimes [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – A semi-trailer containing 40,000 pounds of Pennzoil Motor Oil crashed and overturned on Interstate 70 East late Tuesday night, forcing the closure of the interstate for over six hours. According to Columbus police at 11:22 p.m. a semi hit a bridge support beam at the Courtright Road overpass on I-70 East [...]
QUICK WEATHER FORECAST: FORECAST DISCUSSION: Happy Wednesday! We start off on a chilly note in Central Ohio, with freeze warnings and frost advisories in place as temperatures drop close to freezing to start the day. Good news is, we quickly rebound this afternoon, and we'll be looking at highs in the lower 70s later today! [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- Two people are dead after a shooting on the east side of Columbus Tuesday night. Columbus police said the shooting happened on the 900 block of Rarig Avenue in the East Columbus section of the city at approximately 8:50 p.m. One person was pronounced dead at the scene at 8:58 p.m. [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- In the wake of a string of wrongful death allegations hurled at Mount Carmel Health System over a former doctor's use of potent painkillers on dying patients, the hospital's parent company had one question in mind: who to paint as the villain. Columbus attorney Robert Landy, on behalf of his client [...]
MADISON COUNTY, Ohio (WCMH) -- Two people are dead after a plane crashed in Madison County, according to the county sheriff's office. The crash happened near the Madison County Airport in London, the sheriff's office said. Investigators at the scene said two men, the plane's pilot and copilot, have died. According to flight tracker FlightAware, [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- A woman accused of kidnapping twins, prompting a statewide Amber alert and multi-state manhunt in December, pleaded guilty to unrelated theft charges Tuesday. Nalah Jackson, 24, was sentenced to 90 days of community control after pleading guilty to one count of receiving stolen property and one count of theft, both fourth-degree [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) - The Columbus Division of Police (CPD) has put operators and employees of illegal after-hours clubs on notice. CPD and Columbus City Attorney Zach Klein said they are cracking down after an increase in violence this year at or near some of the clubs. “These are real places that are causing real [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- Time is up, taxpayers! April 18 is the last day to file your return for 2022. But did you file a tax return in 2020 for 2019? If you didn't, the IRS could be holding onto your money. The agency announced late last week that it has $1.5 billion of unclaimed [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- Quick response times are proving to be the difference between life and death in a sudden cardiac arrest, as a 49-year-old Ohio man is remembering how he was saved two months ago. Mark Hunt, 49, suffered from a severe heart attack in February, and medical experts are crediting teamwork from bystanders, [...]
DELAWARE, Ohio (WCMH) -- A man will spend at least the next 36 years in prison after being convicted of the murder of a man whose body he placed in a plastic tote and put into Alum Creek. Timothy Baldrick, 44, was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison with the possibility of parole after 36 [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- Norfolk Southern’s CEO Alan Shaw was at the Ohio Statehouse Tuesday morning, testifying to the Senate Select Committee on Rail Safety about the East Palestine train derailment more than two months after it happened. “It sounds like they’re doing many of the things we hoped they would do,” Senator Bill Reineke [...]