COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- A man has died after falling down a manhole near Rickenbacker Airport. According to the Pickaway County Sheriff's Office, a construction worker fell about 30 feet down a manhole Monday afternoon near a railyard in the 3300 block of Thoroughbred Drive. Witnesses reported that the man was working on a sewer [...]
Broad low pressure will drift east, keeping skies generally cloudy, with occasional showers and isolated rumbles of thunder.
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- The city's annual daylong Fourth of July celebration, which will end with the biggest fireworks show in the Midwest at 10 p.m., is off to a slightly wet start in downtown Columbus. Red, White & BOOM! vendors braved the on-and-off drizzles to start selling a little bit of everything at 11 [...]
COLUMBUS, OHIO (WCMH) – Three separate 911 calls from the same residence netted one arrest on the east side of Columbus Saturday morning. At around 11:45 a.m., police received three separate calls from an apartment on South James Road, near the intersection of Brownlee Avenue in Eastmoor. Court documents state that the first call was [...]
COLUMBUS, OHIO (WCMH) – A man has been charged with kidnapping after police rescued a woman from a car Friday night on the northeast side of the city. According to Franklin County Municipal Court records, police received a call with reports that a woman was in danger. The caller, whom officers met in the Weinland [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- Red, White and BOOM! is approaching from downtown Columbus but heavy morning downpours have not rained on the parade. NBC4 is in direct contact with Red, White & BOOM! executive director Shawn Verhoff, who says at this time, everything is going ahead as scheduled. "Our vendors open at 11 a.m., entertainment [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- A judge in Franklin County dismissed a lawsuit filed by a neighborhood association against the city of Gahanna, which accused its city attorney of brokering a secret deal on a private construction project abutting the subdivision. The original lawsuit, filed in the Franklin County Court of Common Pleas in April, stemmed [...]
COLUMBUS, OHIO (WCMH) – The average price for a gallon of gasoline in Columbus is at its lowest point since late April after rates dropped another eight cents last week. This marks the 10th time in 12 weeks that prices have dropped, with the most recent decline totaling 23 cents per gallon over the past [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – An Ohio lawn care company is taking a competitor to court, claiming they’ve ripped off the company’s trademark and harmed its reputation. The Scotts Company, owned by The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company, filed a lawsuit on June 20 against a company selling an electric mosquito killer, claiming the product’s name too closely [...]
It is officially BOOM! Day, and while we might be drier than the weekend, we still have a chance of some isolated showers later this evening.
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- Two people were injured, one critically, in two separate shootings Sunday night. According to Columbus police, the first shooting happened at approximately 10:41 p.m. on the 3200 block of Oaklawn Street. One victim was taken to Grant Medical Center in critical condition. The second shooting was reported at approximately 10:52 p.m. [...]
Watch NBC4 newscasts and Red, White & BOOM! programming live in the player above. COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- Red, White & BOOM!, the largest fireworks show in the Midwest, is returning to downtown Columbus, only on NBC4, nbc4i.com and the NBC4 app. For those who can't make it to the banks of the Scioto River, watch NBC4 [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – Thousands are expected to gather for Columbus’ annual Red, White & BOOM! Monday and while preparations are underway for the show, those aren’t the only preparations taking place. Some of those preparations include securing a spot to watch the fireworks show, and some people are making sure that’s not a last-minute [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- The Ohio State Buckeyes not waiting for the 4th of July to set off the fireworks. Five-star defensive tackle Justin Scott has committed to the Ohio State 2024 class. The Chicago native chose the Buckeyes over Michigan, Notre Dame and Georgia. According to On3, Scott and his family were heavily set [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- Strong wind and rain storms have knocked out power for more than 6,000 AEP customers Sunday night. According to the AEP outage tracking map, 6,017 customers are without power across the provider's service area in Ohio as of 9 p.m. More than 2/3 of those outages -- 4,127 -- are in [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- A domestic dispute resulted in a house fire and an arrest Sunday afternoon, according to the Columbus fire department. Columbus police responded to a domestic disturbance call on the 1600 block of Elmer Street in the South Hilltop section of the city just after 3 p.m., according to Columbus Division of [...]