A union official is criticizing the proposed suspension for a Columbus officer who subdued a restrained suspect in a way that appeared to show him kicking the suspect in the head while the suspect’s family wants the officer fired.
Topless women at ComFest will not stop the flow of beer, wine and liquor at the popular festival, the state agreed in federal court on Tuesday.
Officials say three people were hospitalized with minor injuries after an explosion at a Northeast Side apartment building.
For the first time in its 36-year history, the Columbus PRIDE parade and festival will recognize local LGBTQ refugees in lieu of a grand marshal.
Medicaid and other state agencies would see deeper funding cuts, but fewer schools would see reductions and a little more money would be directed at Ohio’s opioid crisis under Senate Republican budget changes unveiled today.
The main branch of the Columbus Metropolitan Library will open at 1:00 p.m. Monday following an active shooter situation Sunday afternoon that caused the building to be evacuated and which left a man injured.
Businesses, residents, law enforcement and transportation officials were bracing for an event of cataclysmic proportions as central Ohio awaited the opening of the world’s newest IKEA store.
The blame game was being played at full-tilt in Washington and Columbus Tuesday as one of the nation’s biggest health insurers said it won’t return to Ohio’s public insurance exchanges next year, a decision that could open more holes in the Affordable Care Act’s increasingly thin system for helping people buy coverage.
More than 1,000 high school students in Ohio whose ACT college-entrance exams were invalidated by the tests’ provider will receive their scores after all.
Columbus officials are hoping that summer programs help teenagers keep their cool as temperatures rise.
