COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- A Columbus police officer is hospitalized and a suspect is dead after cruisers chased a trio of accused robbers on the highway Thursday. Around 4 p.m., one Columbus police officer was shot in the leg during a shoot-out that occurred on Interstate 70 near West Mound Street as cruisers pursued three [...]
PORTSMOUTH, Ohio (WCMH) -- A Portsmouth man who admitted to fatally hitting a 70-year-old with his minivan -- then leaving the scene -- was indicted by a Scioto County grand jury last week. Rusty Rule, 41, was indicted on several counts of vehicular homicide on Friday, June 30 after confessing to crashing his 2004 Ford [...]
REYNOLDSBURG, Ohio (WCMH) -- T.J. Maxx in Reynoldsburg could face a close to $67,000 fine over inaccessible exits from its storefront, according to Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) filings. OSHA, the regulatory agency within the U.S. Department of Labor, cited the off-price retailer’s location at 8173 E. Broad St. for violating its standards on [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- Columbus residents can qualify for up to $1200 off an electric bike through a new city program encouraging affordable and sustainable transportation. Named the E-Bike Incentive Pilot Program, city leaders are providing incentives ranging from $500 to $1200 toward the purchase of an e-bike, a bicycle with an integrated battery and [...]
CHILLICOTHE, Ohio (WCMH) -- Chillicothe police are looking for a suspect in a Wednesday shooting that left one man dead. At 2:08 p.m. officers went to a home near the intersection of East Hickory Street and East 4th Street after getting a report of shots fired and a person seen on the ground. When they [...]
GAHANNA, Ohio (WCMH) – A teenage boy was hospitalized with a suspected serious injury after reportedly causing a three-car crash near a Fourth of July parade in Gahanna. According to an Ohio Department of Public Safety crash report, the crash occurred at 11:24 a.m. at the intersection of North Stygler Road and Coronation Avenue in [...]
COLUMBUS, OHIO (WCMH) – Police are searching for a woman accused of shoplifting and destroying merchandise at a northeast Columbus liquor store Wednesday afternoon. According to police, a liquor store employee at the State Liquor Agency within the Giant Eagle Market District on Stelzer Road, just south of Easton, approached an alleged shoplifter inside the [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- Ohio's budget for the next two years is in place, and while the Republican governor has promised benefits for the public, it has been met with historically low Democratic support. Governor Mike DeWine and Lt. Governor Jon Husted spoke on the budget on Wednesday, focusing on a few big items including [...]
COLUMBUS, OHIO (WCMH) – A man has been hospitalized after a Thursday morning shooting that took place in northeast Columbus. According to police dispatch, officers responded to reports of a shooting at 5:31 a.m. on the 2100 block of Fitzroy Drive, near Morse Road. One person, an unidentified man, was shot and taken to Riverside [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- From the Westerville Music & Arts Festival at Heritage Park to DudePerfect at the Schottenstein Center and Martina McBride at the Columbus Commons, here are things to see and do this weekend in central Ohio. DudePerfect 'Panda-Monium Summer Tour' Schottenstein Center at 7 p.m. on Thursday CAPA Summer Movie Series Ohio [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – For almost a year, nearly 2,000 survivors of childhood sexual abuse under the Boy Scouts of America's care have awaited the chance to recoup their fair share of the scouting organization's $2.7 billion bankruptcy agreement. But some survivors said insurance companies and the Ohio Senate with its summer vacation have delayed their [...]
MARYSVILLE, Ohio (WCMH) -- A 2-year-old girl is dead after a woman struck the child with her car while backing up from a home in North Lewisburg, Champaign County, on Wednesday. The Ohio State Highway Patrol said the accident happened at approximately 6 p.m. on Mill Street in the Meadows of North Lewisburg complex. The [...]
NEWARK, Ohio (WCMH) - Car thefts continue to cause problems across the country, including in central Ohio, with the Newark Division of Police hoping strict enforcement of the curfew will help keep the thefts from happening. “It’s just one tool to try and combat the auto theft," Sgt. Chuck Wilhelm said. Wilhelm said the issue [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- Police are searching for two women they said stole items from a southeast Columbus store and then assaulted a store employee with a cell phone while leaving the area. The theft happened on June 27 at a store on the 1200 block of Demorest Road. According to police, two women walked [...]