Columbus Police Chief Kim Jacobs has agreed with earlier assessments by her subordinates that officers did not overreact when they used pepper spray and tear gas on University District revelers after the Buckeyes’ national-championship football win in January.
The stage is set for a high-stakes game of power politics as Ohioans decide whether they want to legalize the personal and medicinal use of marijuana.
A state task force studying police procedures says officers should only use deadly force when they are defending themselves or others from serious injury or death.
A woman waiting at an East Side COTA bus shelter was reportedly looking at her phone when a car crashed onto the sidewalk and collapsed the shelter, killing her.
Authorities have charged a Minnesota man with killing a suicidal Columbus woman he met online.
The daughter of U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown will be on the ballot in Columbus this November, replacing that of Michelle Mills, who announced Monday that she is leaving Columbus City Council.
After an outcry by urban school administrators across the state, who argued that their sports teams were unfairly and arbitrarily being placed in a competitive disadvantage under a new policy counting charter school and STEM school students toward enrollment numbers, the governing body for high school sports in Ohio decided to reverse that decision.
There was a drone. And some drugs and tobacco. And a fight in a prison yard. But, did one of those things have anything to do with the others?
The arrests and convictions of school employees, security guards, casino employees and foster parents also may have escaped detection due to a long-lingering flaw with a component of Ohio’s criminal-background check system, according to an investigation by Columbus media outlets.
Family and friends have said their goodbyes to a journalist known as the “godfather” in Columbus’ black community.
