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Cheyenne Tackett has been charged with child endangering in the fire that killed two of her four children COLUMBUS, Ohio _ Four counts of child endangering have been filed against the Pike County mother of two children who died in a Marion County apartment fire that Ohio authorities believe was started by a child playing with a cigarette lighter.

COLUMBUS -- Ohio wants federal permission to use a strong weapon against a growing problem of bedbugs.

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- One of Ohio's foremost champions of tougher sexual predator laws conceded a certain futility to such efforts as body after body was removed last week from the Cleveland home of Anthony Sowell.

Winners included, from top, Hanifah Kambon, Ramona Reyes and Mike Wiles. DispatchPolitics The Columbus school board will have two new faces come January, with former Columbus teacher Hanifah Kambon and South Side truck driver Mike Wiles joining the board in January.

A Franklin County Grand Jury convicted on Tuesday a Cleveland man of aggravated murder for killing a witness in his uncle's drug case.

"Don't Believe In God? You are not alone." Those words are on a billboard in downtown Columbus at the corner of North 4th and Spring Streets.

Students involved in the new Empower Campaign at Ohio State are trying to give African orphans a shot at something many take for granted -- the chance to go to school.

The Ohio Association of Realtors will offer a National Association of Realtors Senior Real Estate Specialist Designation course Dec.

Franklin County Sheriff's Office reports that an unnamed Columbus man met a 15-year-old girl on the internet and made plans to meet her in Green County, allegedly for sex.

This weekend we really felt like letting everything hang out, so we decided to dedicate an entire photo gallery to the word "naked." But before you get too excited , you should know that we do have some rules to abide by on the site, so there's no nudity involved.

Producers JBOSS & BLEU for Hatchet Films set to start Casting for film written by Sigmund Gould.

Thousands of students -- particularly those who live in Linden, the East Side and the South Side -- would be assigned to different neighborhood schools next year under a proposal that the Columbus district plans to unveil this week.

U.S. soldiers patrol in the mountains above the Pech Valley in Afghanistan's Kunar province.

COLUMBUS -- Large budget cuts to Ohio's adoption services will make it more difficult for the 3,000 children in need of a stable home to find suitable parents, advocates said.

Prosecutors in Ohio are asking a court to drop charges against a man accused of participating in a cancer scam.

BalletMet Columbus gives its audience a lot to think about and digest in the program "NightMoves," which opened last night at the BalletMet Performance Space.

Columbus police detectives continued to search for the person who opened fire inside a bar Friday night, leaving one person dead, 10TV News reported.

Police say when a woman refused to date an Ohio man, he got upset and smashed her mother's grave marker with a sledge hammer.

Columbus Mayor Michael Coleman is in Saudi Arabia, part of a group from the U.S. Conference of Mayors.

The city of was to get an early start on celebrating Veterans Day Friday. NBC 4 reported with the FAST FACTS.