Clouds have certainly been hard to shake today! We've seen some stray showers moving through to the east of Columbus. The good news is we get a nice change coming to our forecast overnight!
MONROE TOWNSHIP, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio man accused of fatally shooting his three young sons admitted to planning the killings and lined them up before executing them with a rifle, prosecutors said Friday. Chad Doerman, 32, who is also accused of wounding the boys' mother at the family’s home, has been charged with aggravated [...]
See Taunton, Massachusetts, Mayor Shaunna O’Connell and her husband, Ted, speak outside Columbus police headquarters on June 16, 2023, in the player above. COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – The parents of a missing 18-year-old from Massachusetts spoke Friday outside of the Columbus police headquarters. Shaunna O’Connell, the mayor of Taunton, Massachusetts, and her husband, Ted, traveled [...]
PLAIN CITY, Ohio (WCMH) -- Police submitted DNA from a dead newborn for analysis Friday but say they are continuing to operate with few leads as they try to determine how the girl ended up inside a garbage truck. A news release from Plain City police said a preliminary autopsy showed the newborn was female [...]
While skies have dried out from Thursday nights storms, we're still stuck with the clouds. We do see those break as we head through the rest of Friday, but a stray chance for a shower keeps them here for the afternoon. Temperatures remain a good bit cooler as we only make it to the mid 70s.
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — A fake Columbus school and its infamous football team will be featured this summer during a 97-minute documentary airing on HBO and the MAX streaming service. "BS High" made its debut this week at the Tribeca Film Festival and includes interviews with players, families, and the team’s controversial former coach Roy [...]
Watch above for a May 10 report on the Ohio House approving the Aug. 8 special election COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- An August election to ask voters whether to make it harder to amend the state constitution can proceed as planned, the Ohio Supreme Court ruled on Friday. In a 4-3 ruling split down party [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- Residents expecting mail or packages Monday may have to wait an extra day -- depending on which delivery service is fulfilling their order. The United States Postal Service recognizes Juneteenth on June 19 as one of 11 federal holidays and is closed. There is no mail delivery, caller service or Post [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — NBC4 and more than a hundred other Nexstar Media Group stations teamed up to celebrate the company's anniversary by giving back to our communities across the nation on Friday. As part of our company’s Founder’s Day of Caring, NBC4 staff chose once again to volunteer with two organizations, Mid-Ohio Farm at [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – With two weeks until the deadline, Ohio’s budget is bursting at the seams – not with money, but with changes to the state’s public colleges and universities. Approved along party lines Thursday afternoon, the Senate’s version of the biennial budget folded in hundreds of pages of policy affecting higher education. Some [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- The proposed capital budget for Columbus under consideration by City Council includes substantial increases from last year’s in how much funding would go to fire, police and housing infrastructure projects. Across city departments, the proposal totals more than $1.7 billion in capital spending over the next fiscal year -- about $1.1 [...]
LONDON, Ohio (WCMH) -- A lakeside home is on the market for $2.85 million, listed as "resort-inspired living" with a boathouse, an expansive outdoor living space and a one-of-a-kind lower level celebrating the Ohio State Buckeyes. Located at 2020 E. Choctaw Drive, the property sits on 1.88 acres on the shore of Choctaw Lake in [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – One person is dead after a shooting on the south side of the city. Columbus police have confirmed one person has died after a shooting on the 1400 block of South High Street in Merion Village. The incident was reported at around 12:45 a.m. Police do not know what led to [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – Ohio lawmakers are mulling whether to abolish slavery as a means of punishment from the state’s constitution. Earlier this month, Reps. Dontavius Jarrells (D-Columbus) and Phil Plummer (R-Dayton) introduced a resolution to eliminate a loophole in the Ohio Constitution – also etched into the U.S. Constitution – that permits slavery or [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- An Amber Alert was briefly issued Friday morning for two children missing from Thornville in Perry County. Officials said they were looking for two children, ages 6 and 4, who were taken about 4:30 a.m. The alert was canceled less than an hour later. Perry County sheriff's deputies responded to a [...]
After a busy night with strong storms moving through Central Ohio, our cold front is clearing to the southeast, and calmer conditions follow behind.
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — The Columbus Division of Police hosted their first community block party of the summer Thursday afternoon in Linden. It was a chance for residents to come out and interact with law enforcement in a fun, family-friendly environment. “These events build relationships and life is about relationships,” said Assistant Chief of Police [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — AEP Ohio is increasing its rate by 28% for some customers. Better Call 4 investigated why those who use the power company are affected by the hike as NBC4's Jennifer Bullock sat down with AEP Ohio Vice President of Regulatory and Finance Lisa Kelso. "In the state of Ohio, customers can [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- A group of local elementary kids are learning the basics of coding and robotics at the PAST Foundation in Columbus. The students are young, but they already have a passion for STEM. This camp is for third through fifth graders. For many of them, it’s their first time trying out coding [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- Columbus City Council President Shannon Hardin called for unity -- and criticized what he described as anti-LGBTQ+ bills backed by state lawmakers -- as the city prepares for its annual Pride festival this weekend. Hardin, the first openly gay council president in city history, sat down with NBC4's Colleen Marshall on [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — A Columbus Division of Police officer was sentenced Thursday after pleading guilty in April to an OVI charge. Officer Tylor Nixon's driver's license is suspended from March 10, 2023 until March 9, 2024. He was also fined $375 and spent three days in jail. Nixon was one of three officers arrested [...]
PLAIN CITY, Ohio (WCMH) — An infant was found dead inside a garbage truck Thursday afternoon after the Plain City Division of Police received a call from the village's contracted refuse company. The infant appeared to be a full-term newborn from zero to one month of age, according to a news release from police. Officers [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — A motorist died Thursday after crashing into a tree on the east side of Columbus. Around 11:30 a.m., the driver of a 2013 Nissan Murano was headed eastbound on East Broad Street towards Westland Avenue when they swerved and jumped the curb on the north side of the roadway several times, [...]
NEW ALBANY, Ohio (WCMH) -- In New Albany, construction has continued on Intel's $20 billion semiconductor fabrication plant -- with concrete first poured last month. But in Santa Clara, California, Intel reported quarterly earnings in April that were about 36% lower than the same time period a year prior, according to its SEC filings. Chief [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — After weeks of deliberation, the Ohio Senate has passed their version of the state’s $94 billion budget, including American Rescue Plan and one-time dollars. The budget was passed along party lines, 24 to seven, making it the first partisan state budget in a decade. “There’s some really egregious stuff in there,” [...]