GROVE CITY, Ohio (WCMH) - Columbus police released body camera footage on Tuesday that showed SWAT officers fatally shooting a man at a Grove City Home Depot. The SWAT team was serving an arrest warrant on Bret Andrews, 46, who had been accused of raping a minor in Athens in 2021. Three different bodycam videos [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- A bison named Hermie at the Columbus Zoo died Monday. He was 12 years old. In a release, the Zoo states Hermie was humanely euthanized Monday morning after he did not recover after anesthesia. He was anesthetized Monday so Zoo officials could safely move him in a trailer off to The [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- A 29-year-old woman from Georgia has been charged after seriously injuring an Ohio State Highway Patrol trooper on Monday in a crash on Interstate 71. Alea Weil, 29, of Atlanta, Georgia, is charged with aggravated vehicular assault and possession of controlled substances, according court documents in Franklin County Municipal Court. Weil [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- Gov. Mike DeWine will be providing an update in a news conference on recent developments from the chemical release after a train derailment in eastern Ohio. DeWine is expected to address the media at 3 p.m. from Columbus. You can watch the press conference live in the player above. On Feb. [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- Two Ohio State athletic teams, one of which is a reigning national champion, could play its games at a new arena in three years. Tucked away in this week's schedule for the university's Board of Trustees meeting is a proposal for an ice hockey rink for the men's and women's teams [...]
MARION, Ohio (WCMH) – A Marion County jury has found a Mansfield man guilty of robbery and obstruction charges after a confrontation with police. According to the Marion County Prosecutor’s Office, 20-year-old Logan Houle faces a maximum possible sentence of 12-to-17 ½ years in prison after a jury found him guilty of aggravated robbery and [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – Thirteen-time Grammy Award winning band The Chicks announced a global tour this summer and one of its stops will include Columbus. The band formerly known as The Dixie Chicks will debut The Chicks World Tour 2023 on June 20 in Olso, Norway for a two-week European trip, then begin its United [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- Police are looking for two men who they say went into an apartment complex's fitness center and stole a television. CPD state the suspects went inside the fitness center of an apartment complex near Polaris on the 8300 block of Seattle Avenue at 5 a.m. on Feb. 9. Police then say [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- Restaurants across central Ohio are offering Valentine's Day menus and specials on Tuesday. Find a location near you and make a reservation below. Brio Italian Grille The chain is offering a dinner for two for $69.99 available for dining in or to-go, with chopped or Caesar salad, lobster and shrimp fettuccine, [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – Sixty years before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball, a Black player named J. Higgins crouched behind the batter’s box at a bygone field in German Village. The first Black professional baseball player documented in Columbus’ minor league history, Higgins’ 19th-century legacy lives on in framed portraits [...]
QUICK WEATHER FORECAST: FORECAST DISCUSSION: Happy Valentine's Day! We continue our mild stretch of weather in Ohio for your Tuesday forecast. Expect a mix of sun and clouds to start the day, with more clouds out later this afternoon. Highs today top out in the upper 50s, running 15-20 degrees above average. Then tonight, the [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – A 48-year-old man is in jail after being accused of luring a child into his car in Madison Township late last week. Now, a family member of the victim in the suspect’s previous crime is speaking out, expressing disbelief that it could happen again. Joseph Ennemoser, of Sugar Grove, is in [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – Columbus was one of nine cities across the U.S. targeted in a federal law enforcement initiative aimed at fighting violent crime. The U.S. Marshals Service announced Monday that Operation North Star II resulted in the arrest of 833 fugitives, violent criminals, sex offenders, and gang members during the month of January. [...]
HILLIARD, Ohio (WCMH) – A December e-mail phishing scam in Hilliard that resulted in the theft of close to $219,000 is currently being investigated. According to a press release from the city, Hilliard's director of finance was fired Monday, and an accounting assistant remains on paid administrative leave in connection with the incident. The city [...]
QUICK WEATHER FORECAST: FORECAST DISCUSSION: Good Monday Evening, Winds will relax tonight, with little to no clouds, expect temps to fall quickly. Most of the area will fall to near freezing around midnight or a bit later tonight. We will see temps falling to the mid to upper 20s overnight with little to no wind. [...]
CINCINNATI (WCMH) -- If you think you’re getting the deal of a lifetime on a luxury Valentine’s Day gift, there’s a chance a federal officer, and not your sweetheart, will open that gift. NBC4 Investigates went behind the scenes with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) at the Port of Cincinnati, where more than 100,000 [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- Abortion access could be on the ballot this November as two abortion rights groups are working to get language approved for a ballot initiative to constitutionally protect the right to abortion in Ohio. One of the groups is Ohio Physicians for Reproductive Rights, co-founded by Dr. Lauren Beene. “It’s not something [...]
ATHENS, Ohio (WCMH) – A former Athens city official is accused of stealing more than $1.5 million from the city. According to Ohio Auditor Keith Faber, Jodi Rickard, who served as executive director of the Athens Metropolitan Housing Authority at the time of the alleged theft, was arrested Monday. Rickard was indicted Monday by an [...]
