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COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- Rising gas prices have been hurting drivers all over Central Ohio, but they’re really putting a dent in the wallets of those who drive for a living. Amid already high prices, the cost of fuel skyrocketed overnight. “Shock is really what I’m feeling,” said Uber Driver Ade Mahadzir. The average price [...]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – Alzheimer’s disease kills more Americans each year than breast cancer and prostate cancer combined, and one in three older Americans dies with some form of dementia. Those troubling statistics brought hundreds of people to the Ohio Statehouse on Tuesday for Alzheimer’s Advocacy Day, and the big push is for House Bill [...]

DUBLIN, Ohio (WCMH) -- Dublin City Schools has restarted its high school redistricting process, with board members working to finalize the criteria that will guide new attendance boundaries for the district’s three high schools.  At a school board meeting on Monday, members discussed potential priorities for the new map, including proximity, future growth and minimizing [...]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — In an effort to prevent accidental shootings, Columbus Public Health has given thousands of community members gun lock boxes over the past few years. The program started in March of 2023, according to Columbus Public Health Commissioner Dr. Mysheika Roberts. “We really started looking at the data and hearing and seeing [...]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- State lawmakers are considering how Ohio communities should handle situations where an elected official is called up for military service. Earlier this month, state Reps. David Thomas (R-Jefferson) and Ty Mathews (R-Findlay) introduced House Bill 823, called the Military Service Elected Office Protection Act. That legislation would lay down some new [...]

Restaurant chain Smokey Bones has closed both of its remaining Columbus-area locations.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- The popular gaming site Roblox is rolling out new safeguards to protect its youngest users. Internet crime experts call it a good step forward, but warn parents that it’s not a full safety net. Hundreds of millions of people use Roblox each month, and many of those are children. Elize Jacobs, the vice president of safety product policy for [...]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- The Ohio Housing Finance Agency says there has been a net loss of affordable rental housing for many Ohioans. The data comes from the 2026 Rental Needs Assessment. The Executive Director of the Affordable Housing Alliance of Central Ohio, Carlie Boos, noted the need for more affordable housing is clear, especially [...]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- Gov. Mike DeWine has ordered flags to be flown at half-staff in honor of a former Ohio state senator. DeWine's proclamation orders the U.S. and Ohio flags to be flown at half-staff on public buildings and grounds in Belmont County and at the Ohio Statehouse, Vern Riffe Center, and Rhodes Tower, [...]

Rain showers will return late overnight tonight. Followed by much colder temps for the rest of the month and right thru the first week of May

WASHINGTON (WCMH) -- Ohio Sen. Bernie Moreno said he never felt unsafe at Saturday's White House Correspondents Association Dinner, where a gunman was stopped from an alleged assassination attempt. "Obviously, things turned chaotic. I can tell you, I never felt in danger," Moreno said. "We had amazing Secret Service personnel there." Moreno was one of [...]

A New Albany who pleaded guilty Tuesday to sending several dozen threatening messages to more than 30 public officials consulted ChatGPT after making the threats.

Unsolved Ohio airs on NBC4’s streaming app at 6:30 p.m. on the last Tuesday of each month. Every episode highlights a different unsolved homicide or missing persons case in the state. COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – Nearly three decades after a young mother vanished from her east Columbus home shortly after moving, her son is trying [...]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- A final round of public funding is moving forward for the last phase of a major Franklinton development. Columbus City Council approved an additional $2 million on April 20 to support construction of the third phase of the Gravity complex, known as The Greenhouse, at 501 W. Broad St. The project [...]

BEXLEY, Ohio (WCMH) -- One year after Bexley Coffee Shop closed, a new coffee shop is picking up the reigns in Bexley. Bexley Coffee Co. will open in the former Bexley Coffee Shop location at 492 N. Cassady Ave. The opening date is not yet set as construction continues, but the location is currently hiring [...]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Two adults who pleaded guilty to their involvement in a candlelight vigil shooting nearly two years ago have been sentenced, one of which includes nearly three decades in prison. According to court records, Tyrez Turner and Ladavia Fortner each pleaded guilty in connection to the murders of Jakwaun Kimbro and Lonnie [...]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – Prosecution testimony is set to enter its third day on Tuesday in the murder trial of former Franklin County sheriff’s deputy Jason Meade, who fatally shot Casey Goodson Jr. in 2020.  Meade, 47, is charged with murder and reckless homicide in connection with the death of Goodson, 23.  He is being [...]

Kibibi, a cheetah who lived at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium, was remembered after her death, having made remarkable contributions to cheetah conservation and being the first biological mother of two cheetahs conceived through in vitro fertilization.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- Columbus voters will decide on May 5 whether to amend the city charter to expand and formalize a community crisis response system that would send trained clinicians and other specialists, rather than police officers, to certain nonviolent emergency calls. Issue 5 would establish a city-run system designed to respond to calls [...]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- As Columbus Metropolitan Library workers approach a June vote to possibly unionize, the library has been accused of union-busting. Two unfair labor practice charges were submitted to the State Employment Relations Board. The Ohio Federation of Teachers filed the charges on behalf of the library’s unionization effort known as CML United. [...]