Oil prices pull gas prices down
Prices at the gas pump are continuing their downward trend.
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Officials want peace in church-strip club feud
Officials are pleading for a pastor and an Ohio strip club owner to stop weekly protesting of each other’s establishments over a years-long feud.
17-year-old shot to death
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A teenager was shot to death in western Franklin County over the weekend.
The Franklin County coroner identified the victim as Reb Barbee, 17.
Police say the teen was shot at about 5 a.m. Sunday in Prairie Township west of Columbus.
Friends and neighbors told reporters that Barbee stumbled into his home leaving a trail of blood.
The Franklin County Sheriff’s Office hasn’t released any details of the shooting and hasn’t announced an arrest.
Brown, Portman tackle water safety
Ohio’s U.S. senators have banded together to introduce two bills they say will keep drinking water safe from contamination caused by harmful algae blooms like the one that led to a water emergency in Toledo this summer.
City’s most dangerous intersections
Motorists who spend a lot of time on Cleveland Avenue on the Northeast Side run a higher risk of getting into an accident than drivers in most other parts of Columbus.
Chardon HS shooter, central Ohio killer recaptured
A teenager convicted of killing three Chardon High School students and a man serving time for the murder of a Madison Township girl have both been recaptured after escaping from a Lima prison.
School report cards
For the first time since a data-scrubbing scandal was uncovered, parents and taxpayers in the Columbus City Schools are getting an accurate assessment of how the district is performing and it isn’t a pretty picture.
Tracking a virus
Although there have been no confirmed cases of the enterovirus, Ohio hospitals, including Nationwide Children’s Hospital, are seeing a jump in the number of patients with respiratory illnesses.
Remembering 9/11
Ohioans today will mark the 13th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York, the Pentagon in Washington and United Flight 93 in Pennsylvania.
5 teens ID’ed in ice bucket prank
Police said they have identified five teenage suspects involved in dumping bodily fluids on a 15-year-old autistic teen who thought he was participating in the “Ice Bucket Challenge.”