Columbus News

An 8,000-pound limestone sculpture of a sofa has been removed from its spot in a trendy Columbus neighborhood, after becoming a favored perch for homeless nappers.

Columbus plans to temporarily shut off water to homes and businesses around the intersection of E. 17th and Joyce avenues at 7 p.m. Sunday.

Columbus Mayor Michael B. Coleman and other local celebrities led cyclists on a 15-mile evening tour showcasing various city attractions.

Genia Wright works at the Brentnell Recreation Center. Employees usually know the neighborhoods well and can spot something out of the ordinary, officials say.

Nearly a dozen lawyers a year are convicted of felonies in Ohio, but few face the kind of charges that are likely to send Javier Armengau to prison.

Cathie Floch hardly took her eyes off her gleaming blue drag racer. The 7,500-horsepower engine, hoses, belts, pipes and giant rear tires draw observers.

Religious dignitaries and political bigwigs are lobbying Pope Francis to visit their hometowns, but the Rev.

Monique Mapp, left, and her mother, Gwendolyn Macon-Beck, look at the 240-foot mural on the new Long Street bridge.

Of the 54 homicides in Columbus this year, 14 percent of the victims are under 30 years old.

A top children's oncologist from Columbus was sentenced this morning to one year in federal prison for viewing child pornography.

Anagha Vyas came to Dublin last year to head up the local office of Persistent Systems Ltd., an India-based information technology company.

A judge is ready to sentence an Ohio pediatric doctor who pleaded guilty to accessing child pornography.

Trinity Lutheran Seminary in Bexley will host several events during the annual convention next week of the Hymn Society in the United States and Canada.

As you might have heard, Columbus resident Zack "Danger" Brown posted a request on the crowd-funding site Kickstarter for money to help him make potato salad.

A proposed law that would require an ignition interlock device for all OVI offenders got a push Thursday from the chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board.

The toddler pulled from a pool was brought by family members to the Franklinton fire station on W. Broad Street.

An 18-year-old man appeared in Franklin County Municipal Court today, after he was charged with rape, accused of sexually assaulting a 10-year-old girl at a Columbus recreation center.

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The Logan County Grand Jury indicted 21 people earlier this week, including a city man who set his mobile home on fire.

The high-school students paraded through the city recently, encased in their life-size balloon artwork: Pac-Man and one of his ghosts, SpongeBob SquarePants and his pineapple home, a hot dog in a balloon bun.