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GRANDVIEW HEIGHTS, Ohio (WCMH) – A New Jersey-based café known for its trendy drinks and ambience recently opened its first Ohio location in Grandview Heights.  Pink Pistachio Café began welcoming customers at 1072 Dublin Road on April 10. The family-owned concept first launched in Somerset, New Jersey, in January 2025 and has a location “coming [...]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- A top JobsOhio official who helped start the economic development group announced she would leave the organization last week. Kristi Clouse will step down as senior managing director of talent on May 1 after a decade with JobsOhio. In a statement, JobsOhio said Clouse "helped create JobsOhio," helping to attract talent, [...]

WEST JEFFERSON, Ohio (WCMH) — An investigation into a body found near a West Jefferson creek has revealed that the identified woman resided in western Ohio. According to a release from the West Jefferson Police Department, officers were dispatched to an area of Little Darby Creek near Martin Avenue and North Franklin Street where kayakers [...]

DUBLIN, Ohio (WCMH) -- Plans for new scoreboards at Dublin Jerome High School and the district's other high schools are moving forward as part of an effort to modernize and standardize stadium facilities. The Dublin Planning and Zoning Commission on April 16 unanimously recommended approval without discussion of a final development plan for the Jerome [...]

CHILLICOTHE, Ohio (WCMH) — A Chillicothe man is dead after a motorcycle crash occurred in Ross County Sunday night. According to the Ohio State Highway Patrol, troopers responded to reports of a two-vehicle collision at the intersection of U.S. Route 50 and Veterans Parkway in Scioto Township, just west of Chillicothe. An investigation revealed that [...]

The John Glenn Columbus International Airport in Columbus, Ohio is closing its Walking Lot on May 4 to make way for a new public safety building as part of the CMH Next terminal project, with other parking options available.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- Ohio legislators are proposing a bill to protect elected officials' seats if they are ordered to active military service. State Reps. David Thomas (R-Jefferson) and Ty Mathews (R-Findlay) said House Bill 823, the Military Service Elected Office Protection Act, would allow elected officials to continue in their roles if they are [...]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — With oil prices taking a turn for the worse over the weekend, a recent dip in central Ohio gasoline prices is likely to be short-lived, fuel experts say. According to GasBuddy’s survey of 500 stations in and around Columbus, Ohio, gas prices fell by 19.8 cents per gallon from last week, [...]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- A bipartisan pair of Ohio lawmakers has introduced legislation that would designate the Loveland Frog, a regional legend dating back decades, as the state's official cryptid. House Bill 821, introduced April 13 by Reps. Tristan Rader (D-Lakewood) and Jean Schmidt (R-Loveland), proposes adding a new section to Ohio law recognizing the [...]

As Anthropic, OpenAI, and industry giants race to outpace each other, data centers and supply chains are straining, while job markets and open-source communities feel the heat. Listen in for a roundtable on whether AI is fueling innovation, burnout, or just the next tech bubble.

• Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.7, concedes it trails unreleased Mythos
• Nobody knows how many CVEs Anthropic's Project Glasswing has actually found
• You're About to See a Lot of Critical Software Updates. Don't Ignore Them.
• Cal.com Is Going Closed Source Because of AI
• AI anxiety is turning volatile
• Humanoid robots race past humans in Beijing half-marathon, showing rapid advances
• Snap Is Laying Off 16% of Full-Time Staff as It Embraces A.I.
• Musk v. Altman Is a Battle for OpenAI's Soul
• The Little Probe That Could: Why Voyager 1 Matters, and Why NASA Just Switched Part of It Off
• Sam Altman's project World looks to scale its human verification empire. First stop: Tinder.
• Meta Must Face Youth Addiction Lawsuit by Massachusetts, Court Rules
• Section 230 Is Dying By A Thousand Workarounds, And Massachusetts Just Added Another One
• Live Nation and Ticketmaster lose monopoly case
• Anna's Archive told to pay Spotify and record labels $322 million over unprecedented music scraping
• Roblox agrees to a $12 million settlement with Nevada
• Judge sides with creators of banned ICE trackers who allege DHS and DOJ violated their First Amendment rights
• What's the point of the App Store, if it can't protect users?
• TotalRecall Reloaded tool finds a side entrance to Windows 11's Recall database
• Google, Microsoft, Meta All Tracking You Even When You Opt Out, According to an Independent Audit
• It Is Time to Ban the Sale of Precise Geolocation
• Google Broke Its Promise to Me. Now ICE Has My Data. | Electronic Frontier Foundation
• Billionaire Netflix cofounder Reed Hastings is leaving the company
• Venture capitalist Ron Conway says he is starting treatment for a 'rare' cancer

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COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- A local animal rescue is known for never turning away a dog in need, but with obstacles piling up, FREEdom Tails Ohio announced it is under an intake hold for the foreseeable future. The nonprofit helps animals retire from commercial and backyard breeder situations. “I’m sad because we have to say [...]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- Seven people were forced from their home Sunday night after a fire at an apartment building in the Franklin Park neighborhood of Columbus. According to a Columbus Division of Fire spokesperson, the fire broke out in a fifth-floor apartment on the 1500 block of Bryden Road. A sprinkler system in the [...]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – This week’s Sunday Briefing: Now, Gov. Mike DeWine said the ad is not true. During this week’s roundtable, Republican strategist Mike Gonadakis and Democratic strategist Joe Rettof talk about the heated political climate around election season. “We are talking about a proposal that threatens to completely eradicate decades of progress,” Equitas [...]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — A man arrested in FBI stings involving the same undercover agent twice in 11 years has been sentenced to over three decades in prison. William Kisor was sentenced a fourth time after pleading guilty to multiple sex crimes when he resumed contact with the same undercover agent who aided in his [...]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — A man who appeared to have physical evidence of burns on his face and body was arrested this week on an arson charge. According to a Columbus police report, officers responded to the 1800 block of Walcutt Road, near the old Buckeye Yard railyard south of Hilliard. Upon arrival, they noted [...]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – The U.S. is seeing a rise in imposter scams fueled by the use of artificial intelligence, with a recent study finding Ohio is among the most impacted states. BrokerChooser, an online platform that reviews digital banks, analyzed imposter scam reports made to the Federal Trade Commission in the third quarter of [...]