Columbus News

Columbus homicide detectives are investigating a death at a west Columbus motel room.

The fire started shortly before midnight in the 900 block of East Whittier Street near Ohio Avenue in southeast Columbus.

One person was arrested after driving the wrong way in north Columbus and trying to speed away from officers after a traffic violation.

Federal prosecutors say 17 members of an alleged gang with 2-decade-old roots in Columbus are preparing to plead guilty to drug dealing, illegal weapons possession and money laundering charges.

Work on the Mound Street connector in downtown Columbus will continue this weekend, and road closures are scheduled.

Police are investigating a deadly shooting in East Columbus. A man was shot to death in the 300 block of Kelton Avenue around 9:30 p.m. Friday.

Fire crews were battling a large house fire resulting from a reported explosion on the west side of Columbus Friday afternoon.

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Columbus police plan to conduct a sobriety checkpoint on Sawmill Rd. at Festival Ln., starting at 9 p.m. Friday and running until 3 a.m. Saturday.

The anti-abortion group Ohio Right to Life says it has expanded initiatives on the East and Northeast sides of Columbus in an effort to reach minority populations.

The popular event Drums Downtown is back, celebrating its 10th anniversary of innovative collaboration, with performances at 8 p.m. Friday, April 4, and Saturday, April 5, at the Riffe Center's Capitol Theatre, 77 South High St. in downtown Columbus.

In November, 2012, 18-year-old Jordan Davis was sitting in a van with friends at a gas station in Jacksonville, Florida, listening to rap music.

Columbus continues to scratch its way higher in rankings of bedbug hot spots. The city is No.

Authorities have arrested a suspect possibly involved in a deadly shooting in north Columbus.

A central Ohio doctor sentenced to more than 36 years in prison last year for causing the death of an expectant mother with a heroin overdose has been stripped of his medical license.

A 19-year-old man has been arrested today and charged in the death of an Ethiopian immigrant on the Far North Side.

No charges have been filed against a driver who struck a 2-year-old boy on a Far East Side street on Monday night.

A Columbus police officer is on desk duty after he was charged with OVI after a crash near New Albany February 27. Columbus police officer Russell Redman III is facing a drunk driving charge.

We continue the celebratory trend courtesy of the Wexner Center for the Arts, which is marking Sherri Geldin's 20th anniversary as director with the creation of the Sherri Geldin Innovation Fund.