COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) - A lawsuit wanting to add government oversight over Google is receiving its day in court, Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost announced. The lawsuit filed in 2021 will have a saga confirmed to stretch over three years, with the trial date set for May 14, 2024. Yost said the trial would take [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- Reynoldsburg police are urging businesses and residents in the city to file a report if they were victims of an incident from September. According to a post made Tuesday on the department's Facebook page, police said 22 victims, including businesses and vehicles, had windows shot out with a pellet gun on [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- A 30-year-old victim from a North Linden homicide in September was shot multiple times, an autopsy report shows. Lance Thompson, 30, was discovered with multiple gunshot wounds to the head, chest, left arm and right forearm, according to the Franklin County Forensic Science Center. Police say they found Thompson inside a [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – With less than a month left in the General Assembly, two Ohio lawmakers again asked fellow legislators to consider a bill to legalize the use and sale of recreational marijuana. Introduced by Reps. Casey Weinstein (D-Hudson) and Terrence Upchurch (D-Cleveland) in August 2021, House Bill 382 seeks to allow people older [...]
It's a gray but mild day, and more clouds, showers and above normal temperatures are on the way. Brace for more wet and foggy days ahead.
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – A Columbus man is facing charges related to a drone spotted before the Ohio State-Wisconsin football game earlier in the 2022 season. NBC4 obtained the affidavit record for the case, which detailed an officer's account of the Sept. 24 incident. Detectives from the Columbus Division of Police's Counter Terrorism Unit said [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Country music star Shania Twain has announced several more concert dates for her 2023 "Queen of Me" tour, including one in Columbus. The five-time Grammy Award winner will perform at the Schottenstein Center on Oct. 27 next year. Twain's upcoming tour will feature her forthcoming album "Queen of Me" which debuts [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- Columbus Public Health reported a slight increase in measles cases in central Ohio, including an increase in hospitalizations and infections in partially vaccinated children. As of Tuesday morning, Columbus Public Health confirmed there are 58 cases in its measles outbreak dashboard, up from 56 reported Monday. There are also an additional [...]
You can watch the full press conference in the video player above. COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- The Columbus Crew's next head coach was officially announced Tuesday morning at Lower.com Field. The Crew announced former CF Montreal boss Wilfried Nancy as the eighth full-time head coach in Black & Gold history. Tuesday morning, CF Montreal confirmed [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- Bills pending on state lawmakers' desks could be emboldening groups targeting LGBTQ+ people, and researchers are using data to back up that claim. Anti-LGBTQ+ incidents -- demonstrations, political violence, and offline propaganda activity -- more than tripled from 64 events in 2021 to 193 events in 2022 as of mid-November, according [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – Three cars were set on fire overnight in a northwest apartment complex in Columbus. According to a police dispatch report, at 2:50 a.m. Tuesday morning three cars were set on fire in the parking lot of the Harper House at the Highlands on Sawmill Place Boulevard, near West Dublin Granville Road. [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- A chance encounter between two little boys both being treated at Nationwide Children’s Hospital has blossomed into a friendship. This story of this chance encounter starts back in October of 2022. Brady Martin, a 10-year-old from Canal Winchester was wrapping up a chemotherapy appointment when his family met a little boy [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – Rep. Jeff LaRe recalled a time he could fit a copy of the Ohio Revised Code (ORC) on his person while patrolling the streets of Fairfield County as a sheriff’s deputy in the 1990s. Today, after hundreds of iterations to the law, “that’d be like carrying around a set of encyclopedias,” [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – An overnight fire destroyed the lower level of an apartment building on the southeast side of Columbus. Posts Columbus Fire Department responded to a fire alarm at a two-story apartment building on Prince George Drive in Glenbrook. Firefighters at the scene said the fire started in a lower-level unit, which is [...]
QUICK WEATHER FORECAST: Today: Sct'd showers, high 52 Tonight: Heavier showers, low 48 Wednesday: Rain clearing, cloudy, high 55 Thursday: Rain later, high 50 Friday: Rain showers, breezy, high 51 Saturday: Mostly cloudy, high 43 FORECAST DISCUSSION: Happy Tuesday! We are off to a much milder start this morning than the last several, with cloud [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – A Columbus Division of Police officer was caught on tape this past weekend high-fiving a member of a white supremacist group, drawing a response from the department’s chief. The incident took place Saturday morning outside a Clintonville church where a scheduled drag story time event had to be canceled due to [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – Columbus City Council tackled a number of controversial measures Monday night, each with the goal of making the city safer in one way or another. Liquor licenses Columbus City Council voted to object to the renewal of liquor licenses for 12 businesses in the city, leaving the final decision to the [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- Ohio State quarterback C.J. Stroud will have another opportunity to win college football's most iconic individual award. It was announced Monday night that Stroud is among the finalists for the 2022 Heisman Trophy alongside USC quarterback Caleb Williams, TCU quarterback Max Duggan, and Georgia quarterback Stetson Bennett. Stroud, a third-year quarterback, [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- In one month, there will be new legislators at the Ohio Statehouse. Two of those new faces include Senator-elect Bill DeMora (D-Northeast Ohio) and Representative-elect Dr. Anita Somani (D-Franklin County), who said they are ready to hit the ground running in January. “We have to work as a team,” Somani said. [...]
QUICK WEATHER FORECAST: Tonight: Patchy drizzle, some fog late, low 41 Tuesday: Light showers, fog, high 51 Wednesday: Showers early, mostly cloudy, high 56 Thursday: Showers late, high 50 Friday: Rain likely, high 51 FORECAST DISCUSSION: Good Monday Evening, It turned out to be a fair start to the work week with temps running a [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- One in four women will lose a child to a miscarriage, a heartbreaking statistic. Karen Morris had the biggest loss of her life nearly two decades ago, losing her son Nicholas after he didn't survive surgery for a heart defect after birth. Eight years after losing Nicholas and giving birth to [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- The Columbus Crew is expected to announce its next manager Tuesday with just a few months to go until the 2023 season kicks off, sources confirmed to NBC4. League sources confirmed to NBC4's Whitney Harding that CF Montreal boss Wilfried Nancy will be the Black & Gold's ninth man to manage [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- Instead of patients, you'll find presents loaded onto ambulances from the Columbus Division of Fire for the 45th annual Firefighters 4 Kids Toy Drive. "We're collecting every day, from now through Christmas, at any Franklin County fire station, and we pick up from those stations basically every day," said Mike Mullins, [...]
