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BEXLEY, Ohio (WCMH) -- About 18 months after Bexley Coffee Shop's closure, its successor is up and running in Bexley. Bexley Coffee Co. opened on July 29, filling a coffee void at 492 N. Cassady Ave. The spot had been closed since the former Bexley Coffee Shop shut down in February 2025 due to financial [...]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) - Meet Myrtle! She is available at the Franklin County Dog Shelter and Adoption Center. Myrtle is a 6-year-old American Bull Dog mix and she's been with the shelter since early July. Myrtle is a sweet dog with a good mix of energy. She enjoys playing and going on walks, but she [...]

Central Ohio residents can look forward to several local events during the first weekend of August, including the Ohio State Fair, various musical theater performances, international film screenings, parish festivals, and a Columbus Crew soccer match.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- A Columbus City Schools board member is asking Ohio lawmakers to strengthen state oversight of school districts, escalating a dispute with district leadership over how CCS handled a multimillion-dollar health insurance shortfall. Board member Brandon Simmons sent a letter Wednesday to the leadership of the Ohio House and Senate Education Committees, [...]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — A police pursuit ended east of Downtown, Columbus after a suspected stolen vehicle crashed into a home early Thursday morning. According to the Columbus Division of Fire, a car crashed into an Olde Town East home at around 2:30 a.m. Thursday. A Lieutenant with the division told NBC4 that the vehicle [...]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- Both gubernatorial candidates are facing pushback from members of their core voting bases. Democrat Amy Acton is receiving backlash from some progressive and LGBTQ+ voters after she told the Toledo Blade she does “not support boys playing in girls sports.” Republican Vivek Ramaswamy is also facing criticism from young men, with [...]

REYNOLDSBURG, Ohio (WCMH) – Newly obtained records show that a Reynoldsburg police officer who recently resigned while under internal investigation repeatedly used the Flock license plate reader system to search a vehicle registered to someone investigators identified as his likely domestic partner. On Tuesday, NBC4 first reported that a different Reynoldsburg police officer was internally [...]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – There is an effort to get 211 services to all 88 counties across Ohio after the governor announced a new partnership. Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine announced the partnership between the Ohio Department of Children and Youth Services and Ohio 211 earlier this year. When someone dials 211, they are connected to [...]

At Black Hat Las Vegas, the Security Now crew digs into how AI is not just finding hidden software bugs but also fueling both groundbreaking innovation and alarming new exploits. When open models can launch surprise Bitcoin heists, who draws the line between forbidden knowledge and genuine progress?

• Black Hat and DEF CON: Hacking Stories and Conference Culture
• Zoox Ride-Hailing Hack and Over-the-Air Vulnerabilities
• Autonomous Vehicles, AI, and the Security Implications
• Hosts Share Personal Adoption and Use of AI Tools
• AI-Powered Coding: From Hobbyists to Advanced Agency Chains
• Local Models vs. Cloud AI: Privacy, Cost, and Control
• App Development Democratized: Listeners Build Custom Solutions With AI
• Code Generation, Testing, and Managing AI-Driven Project Cycles
• AI's Role in Security: Vulnerability Discovery, Exploitation, and Patch Challenges
• Technical Debt and the Race to Patch Decades-Old Bugs
• The Dual-Use Dilemma: AI Tools for Both Attack and Defense
• Guardrails, Model Partitioning, and the Fight Over Forbidden Knowledge
• Open vs. Restricted AI: Global Models, Distillation, and Free Speech
• LLM Security Weaknesses: Prompt Injection and Role Confusion Exposed
• The Reliability Problem: Probabilistic AI and Non-Deterministic Software
• AI Progress: Public Perception, Skepticism, and "Hogwash" Rebuttals
• Reflections on AI's Fast Evolution and the Sci-Fi Reality Gap
• Closing Thoughts: Tech Community, Listener Feedback, and the Future of Security Now

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COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- With the first day of school steadily approaching, a central Ohio educator said parents don't need workbooks or worksheets to help keep their children learning through the rest of the break. Former Worthington teacher and Doodles and Digits founder Caroline Farkas said many students experience what's known as the "summer slide," [...]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- After nearly a year of training, Columbus Division of Fire recruits got a taste Wednesday of what it’s really like to fight a fire. In a rare opportunity Columbus Division of Fire Lt. Nick Davis said only comes up every few years, training exercises were held in a vacant building. “This [...]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- With the Ohio State Fair in its final stretch, lawmakers held a special session at the fairgrounds Wednesday when both the House and Senate Agriculture Committees jointly heard from farmers and state leaders about the state of Ohio’s farms.  According to Ohio Farm Bureau Executive Vice President Adam Sharp, the next [...]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- NBC4 is looking into how law enforcement agencies throughout Franklin County share Flock camera data. Flock cameras are automated license plate readers that police use to solve crimes and locate missing people. However, some are calling for the technology to be banned due to privacy and data-sharing concerns. The debate is [...]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- In the mid 1800's, Ohio was the top-producing state in America for wine. Today, Ohio ranks sixth nationally in wine output, still the most in the Midwest (one spot ahead of Michigan), and that's likely a surprise to some Ohioans. "A surprise.... other than those of us that are Ohio wine nerds," [...]

UPPER ARLINGTON, Ohio (WCMH) -- An Upper Arlington bakery is creating a special cookie to help raise funds for an Ohio corner store that is being sued by Buc-ee's. The Original Goodie Shop is selling cookies for $3 each, and $1 from each cookie sold will go to Beaver's Mini Mart in Beavercreek. The cookies [...]

WHITEHALL, Ohio (WCMH) -- A man found guilty of murder for a homicide that took place over a year ago in east Columbus could spend the rest of his life in prison. On June 5, 2025, officers arrived to Players Family Billiards, located on East Main Street in Whitehall, where they found Corey Divers, 35, [...]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — A Franklin County couple will spend the next decade in prison on cocaine and gun charges after a federal sentence was handed down Tuesday morning. According to federal prosecutors, Laura Reyes Esquivel and Mario Gamino Sanchez, residents in the north Columbus neighborhood of Northgate, were arrested in June 2025 after agents [...]