Young children whose parents read them five books a day enter kindergarten having heard about 1.4 million more words than kids who were never read to, according to new study by early childhood education researchers at Ohio State.
A 23-year-old man will go before a U.S. magistrate on a charge that he lied to federal agents about being a missing child from Illinois.
A new state marriage law prohibits children under the age of 17 from marrying in Ohio
Police are investigating a fiery one-vehicle crash on the West Side that left one person dead early Monday, the third fatal accident in less than three days in Franklin County.
The Columbus Division of Police will have a new chief by the end of the year, but not much before that, according to a timeline released by Mayor Andrew Ginther and a search committee introduced Monday.
Cameron Maybin scored on a throwing error by Louisville first baseman Brian O’Grady in the bottom of the 10th inning to give the Clippers a win in the opening game of a three-game series against the Bats at Huntington Park.
Police suspect that alcohol and speed played roles in an accident on the Northeast Side Saturday afternoon that left a seven-year-old a seven-year-old girl dead and sent five other people to hospitals with injuries. It was one of two fatal accidents in Franklin County this weekend.
The federal government is investigating an E. coli outbreak affecting more than 70 people in Ohio and four other states.
Columbus police say they have located a man suspected of being the driver who hit and dragged a woman in a fatal hit-skip accident in the Driving Park neighborhood last month.
A charged-up Yasiel Puig barreled into a bunch of Pirates during a bench-clearing fracas and was among five ejections in Pittsburgh’s 7-5 victory over the Reds.
