4 dead: Home may have lacked smoke detectors
The Ohio State Fire Marshal’s office says there is no evidence of any working smoke detectors in a Kettering home where four people – two of them children — died in a blaze Thursday morning.
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220 area code added to 740
Folks in parts of central and southeast Ohio will have to get used to dialing more digits when they make phone calls now that regulators have approved a plan to use a new area code.
Big jump in Obamacare enrollment in Ohio
More Ohioans are getting health insurance under the Affordable Care Act.
Sweep targets Short North Posse
Authorities say 22 people have been charged with drug trafficking and gun crimes in a central Ohio investigation.
Meyer, Conley coach of year finalists
Ohio State’s Urban Meyer and Ohio Dominican’s Bill Conley are among the finalists for the 2013 Liberty Mutual Coach of the Year Award.
December for the books
As central Ohioans struggle through the worst early December on record, many experts say climate change is happening in Ohio and the cold weather is a result.
Dogs apparently killed baby by accident
Authorities say a three-month-old Ohio girl is dead after she was bitten by the family’s dogs.
West Side BMV change
Ohio’s last state-run BMV customer service center will close by next summer and a new deputy registrar will open on the West Side.
New snow means slippery going
The newest round of winter weather left central Ohio roads covered with a coating of 1 to 2 inches of snow overnight, making for a slippery commute.
Man shot in his driveway
Columbus police are looking for the suspect in an overnight shooting on the East Side that left a man with critical injuries in the driveway of his home.