COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Taylor Mikesell scored 16 points and Rikki Harris added 14 as No. 3 Ohio State won its 15th straight without a loss, coming from behind to beat turnover-prone Michigan 66-57 on Saturday. Cotie McMahon had 12 for the Buckeyes (15-0, 4-0 Big Ten), who forced Michigan into a season-high 27 turnovers. [...]
Periods of rain accompanied a disturbance moving northeast along a frontal boundary that has moved through central Ohio, allowing for partial clearing. Temperatures will fall from the low 50s to the mid-40s this evening and settle in the low 40s for New Year's Eve, with a wind shift to the northwest. New Year's Day will [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- The U.S. Marshals Service Southern District of Ohio is offering up to $5,000 for information leading to the arrest of a suspect in an officer-involved shooting, on the loose in central Ohio after escaping from a local hospital. Jacob D. Davidson, 38, escaped from Twin Valley Behavioral Health Hospital at 2200 [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- As Eastland Mall officially shut its doors on Saturday, a small business that called the mall home is now searching for a new location. "Anthony's Nu Wave Entertainment" opened in Eastland more than two years ago in July of 2020. Founded by Tony and Tina Fleisher, the small business aimed to [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- Police located an 81-year-old man on Saturday who had been missing since mid-November. Donald Kirksey, 81, had not been seen or heard from since around Nov. 19, and was missing from the area of Wayland Drive and Quaker Road, according to the Columbus Division of Police. Authorities said Kirksey's 2007 red [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- A 43-year-old man was shot early Saturday morning after an unknown suspect came searching for another person at his Linden home. Officers responded to the 1200 block of E. 26th Avenue at 12:34 a.m. on Saturday after report of a shooting, according to the Columbus Division of Police. The victim said [...]
Columbus and Central Ohio Weather QUICK WEATHER FORECAST: FORECAST DISCUSSION: Good evening and happy Saturday! It's a soggy end to 2022 ahead of a warmer than normal start to 2023. As an area of low pressure moves in from the southwest, we'll see moderate to heavy rainfall through the morning and early afternoon. Temperatures will [...]
On July 9, 2021, California’s Death Valley reached 130 degrees Fahrenheit, according to an automated measuring system there, representing one of the highest temperatures ever recorded on the planet. The world record, also recorded at Death Valley, was 134 degrees in July 1913. More than 210 degrees Fahrenheit separates the highest and the lowest temperatures on record in [...]
COILUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- On the second day of 2023, several freshman lawmakers will start their first term at the Ohio statehouse. Of those new lawmakers are Democratic Rep.-elect Rachel Baker and Rep.-elect Nick Santucci, who both have a list of priorities. “Healthcare, increasing access to quality health care, mental health care, looking at infant [...]
Columbus and Central Ohio Weather QUICK WEATHER FORECAST: FORECAST DISCUSSION: Good evening and happy Friday! We're wrapping up 2022 and heading into 2023 with above normal temperatures and rain showers. Today, we set a new record warmest high temperature at 65 degrees. The previous record was 63 set in 1964. Clouds and a southerly breeze, [...]
WASHINGTON (WCMH) – President Joe Biden on Friday pardoned an 80-year-old Columbus woman convicted of killing her abusive husband in 1977. The White House said Biden granted clemency to Beverly Ann Ibn-Tamas nearly 50 years after a Washington, D.C. jury convicted her of second-degree murder for fatally shooting her husband, Dr. Yusef Ibn-Tamas, according to [...]
NEWARK, Ohio (WCMH) -- A Licking County man is a person of interest in his mother's death and burial, according to the local sheriff's office. On Dec. 23, Licking County deputies searched the home of 67-year-old Debra Perrine on Darlene Drive in Newark after family members requested a welfare check, the sheriff's office said in [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- Hal and Mary Ellen fell in love nearly six decades ago, but life got in the way. A perfect composition takes time. "How did we do that ... yes, you had your arms crossed," Dr. Hall Benson and Mary Ellen Martin sat on their piano bench trying to recreate how they [...]
