A man wanted in connection with a robbery spree that ended in a deadly shootout with Columbus police was arrested Saturday at a Chicago airport as he prepared to flee the country, according to federal authorities.
A suspect was killed in a shootout with Columbus police officers and a Franklin County sheriff’s deputy on the East Side Saturday night.
Columbus police are investigating a pair of shooting incidents within minutes each other that left two people dead early Saturday.
Sean Zawadzki scored a short-handed goal in the fourth-minute of stoppage time after teammate Cucho Hernández received a second-half red card and the Crew rallied for a 1-1 draw with New York City FC at Lower.com Field on Saturday night.
The Ohio State Highway Patrol reported that 11 people lost their lives in nine traffic crashes during the July Fourth holiday Monday and Tuesday, nearly as many as were killed last year when the holiday reporting period was twice as long.
Groups hoping to enshrine abortion rights in Ohio’s constitution have delivered nearly double the number of signatures needed to place an amendment on the fall statewide ballot.
Columbus police say that one of the suspects in a robbery spree that ended in a deadly shootout on a freeway near downtown Thursday afternoon was taken into custody early Friday morning on the Northeast Side while other remains at large.
A man has been sentenced to life in prison for raping a 9-year-old Columbus girl who later traveled out of state for an abortion. Gerson Fuentes pled guilty Wednesday.
Columbus was not immune to a rash of shootings across the U.S. as the country celebrated the Fourth of July holiday.
Norfolk Southern says the owner of the rail car that caused the fiery derailment in February failed to properly maintain it in the years before the crash.
