HILLIARD, Ohio (WCMH) -- Hilliard investigators will not pursue criminal charges after a girl was hit by a vehicle at the city's July 4th parade, police announced Wednesday. A day after a 7-year-old girl was struck by a trailer Tuesday morning, Hilliard police said they will continue investigating the accident but are "not pursuing any [...]
MOUNT VERNON, Ohio (WCMH) -- AEP has restored power to most of its Knox County customers after a transmission line malfunction Wednesday knocked it out to thousands. Between Knox and Licking County, close to 20,000 customers were without power as of early Wednesday evening. By 11 p.m., however, AEP was reporting only 12 customers were [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- A common theory associated with young kids, their time in front of screens and school performance may have been debunked by Ohio State University researchers. Rebecca Dore, the director of research for OSU's Crane Center for Early Childhood Research and Policy, lead the study, which found no connection between a child's [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – Authors of an abortion-rights amendment submitted signatures Wednesday to place the measure on the November ballot. Ohioans United for Reproductive Rights delivered 422 boxes of petition booklets to the Secretary of State’s office with the names of more than 710,000 voters, the coalition said, who support their ballot initiative to enshrine [...]
COLUMBUS, OHIO (WCMH) – Police are looking for two armed suspects who are accused of robbing a man at his northeast Columbus residence. According to an incident report, two men, between the ages of 35 and 40, forced their way in to a man’s apartment in the 2900 block of Cleveland Avenue in the North [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- Columbus police are looking for a man they say robbed an east Columbus drive-thru store while pointing a gun at an employee. Police say on Thursday at 9:26 a.m., a man went to a store on the 2800 block of East 5th Avenue from an alleyway and pointed a gun at [...]
COLUMBUS, OHIO (WCMH) – One person is dead after a single-car crash that was being on the east side of the city Wednesday morning. A woman was pronounced dead at 7:05 a.m. when police arrived at the intersection of Lockbourne Road and East Columbus Street in the Driving Park neighborhood. Police said the crash was [...]
COLUMBUS, OHIO (WCMH) – Fifty-two shell casings were found at Sawyer Park, east of Downtown, Columbus, where two people were shot early Wednesday morning. Witnesses told police they were at Sawyer Park to watch fireworks, near the 400 block of North 20th Street in the King-Lincoln Bronzeville neighborhood, when gunfire broke out. At the scene [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- A man accused of raping and impregnating a 10-year-old girl will spend at least 25 years in prison for the crime. Gerson Fuentes, 28, pleaded to one count of rape of a child under 10 and one count of rape in Franklin County court Wednesday afternoon, a year after the girl’s [...]
WESTERVILLE, Ohio (WCMH) -- The Westerville Arts & Music Festival is returning this weekend with more than 125 arts and fine crafts vendors, 20 food trucks and 30 live performances. Celebrating its 49th anniversary, the festival is running 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Saturday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday at Heritage [...]
Body camera footage during Bobby Hunt's June 2022 arrest can be viewed in the video player above. Viewer discretion is advised. NELSONVILLE, Ohio (WCMH) -- The Meigs County sheriff, who was fired in 2019 from the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigations, is facing a federal lawsuit stemming from earlier work one county north. In the [...]
COLUMBUS, OHIO (WCMH) – One person is dead and another was injured during a shooting just north of Downtown Columbus Wednesday morning. Police responded to reports of a shooting at 12:14 a.m. and pronounced one dead, 31-year-old Roosevelt Carroll III, at the scene at a parking lot on the corner of Kerr Street and Warren [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- Three people are dead and three others are hospitalized after a crash in southeast Columbus. Columbus police said the three-car crash happened on the 3300 block of Refugee Road at approximately 8:05 p.m. According to a CPD report, a woman driving a 2015 Kia Optima was traveling westbound on Refugee Road, [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- "There are scams for everyone," said Jon Miller Steiger with the Federal Trade Commission, and that includes the military community. That's why organizations like the FTC, the Better Business Bureau and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ramp up efforts during July -- Military Consumer Protection Month -- to increase awareness of [...]