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COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) - The Franklin County Dog Shelter and Adoption Center is waiving adoption fees for the month of August. The initiative is part of the nationwide campaign, Clear the Shelters. It's an effort to help animals in need find their forever homes. The Franklin County Dog Shelter, located at 4340 Tamarack Blvd. in [...]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- A 20-year-old who police said should be considered "armed and dangerous" is wanted on a murder charge after a shooting in southeast Columbus. The shooting happened Sunday night in the 2500 block of Petzinger Road. The victim, Demontae Johnson, 20, died Thursday from his injuries, according to police. Treshon J. Corbin, [...]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- A woman accused of murdering a 5-year-old boy in Columbus over two years ago declined a plea offer and will take her case to a trial. 50-year-old Pammy Maye appeared briefly in Franklin County Common Pleas court Friday morning for a psychiatric evaluation hearing. Her attorney, Sam Shamansky, said Maye declined [...]

SPRINGFIELD, Ohio (WCMH) -- Advocates allege Haitian immigrants in Springfield are being summoned to immigration hearings and fitted with ankle bracelets following the end of their legal residency protections. "It is so humiliating to see parents, fathers and mothers, who have not been committing any crime now with some type of ankle bracelets on their [...]

The Ohio Department of Transportation is holding a series of public meetings in August across Delaware, Marion, and Morrow counties to gather feedback on a proposed connector between U.S. 23 and Interstate 71.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – Customers at the Polaris Fashion Place food court will soon have a new option: Chinese street food. Red Bao Kitchen will launch at 1500 Polaris Parkway in the mall’s food court on Aug. 8. The eatery is taking over a space in the middle of the dining area that housed Tangible, [...]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- One of the Crew's most decorated players is headed across the pond. NBC4 sorces can confirm that the Columbus Crew and English second division club Middlesbrough are finalizing a transfer agreement for defender Max Arfsten. Boro, which is often how the team is referred to, is reportedly set to pay a [...]

PIKETON, Ohio (WCMH) -- Tech companies are considering leasing the world's largest data center, a $500 billion investment in southern Ohio. First reported by the Wall Street Journal, chipmaker Nvidia is in talks to invest $250 billion with OpenAI to lease an enormous data center being built on federal land in Pike County. If the [...]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – An Ohio woman who was found guilty of murder in a deadly 100 mph crash that killed two people has filed her latest legal effort to overturn her conviction. Mackenzie Shirilla, 21, filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus – a legal request used to challenge unlawful imprisonment – [...]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit from Ohio advocacy groups that claimed federal agents were arresting immigrants illegally. On July 17, Chief District Judge Sarah Morrison dismissed a lawsuit that alleged multiple immigrants living in Ohio had been illegally detained by ICE or Customs and Border Patrol agents because they were [...]

DELAWARE, Ohio (WCMH) -- Grady Memorial Hospital’s maternity unit is scheduled to close Friday, ending inpatient labor and delivery services in Delaware County after more than a month of opposition from local officials, health care professionals, concerned mothers and residents. OhioHealth is moving forward with the closure after citing declining deliveries at Grady and the [...]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- Now weeks into the cyclospora outbreak, cases have topped 2,500 in Ohio, and health officials still haven’t identified all the sources causing the illness; experts said the investigation is more complicated than people may think.   As health leaders search for answers, more customers are turning to locally grown produce to reduce the risk of getting sick. All of the [...]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- Motherful Columbus just closed on a property that will be transformed into a space for single mothers, called Motherful Village. “Being a single mom is very lonely. It’s a very lonely thing and by being in a community you don’t have that loneliness,” said Lisa Woodward, co-founder of Motherful Columbus. Woodward [...]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — A low-cost, nonprofit spay-and-neuter animal clinic that has become a go-to for rescue organizations and pet owners in central Ohio has closed. Shelter Outreach Services of Ohio (SOS Ohio) made the announcement on social media this week, saying it was the hardest decision the organization has ever made. “We do this [...]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- Ohio health officials say the state could be on pace for another record year for Lyme disease as disease-carrying ticks continue to spread across the state. The Ohio Department of Health reported more than 2,800 Lyme disease cases in 2025, nearly seven times the 415 cases reported in 2020. So far [...]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- Law enforcement officials, health care experts, legal professionals and victims’ advocates from all over the state were in Columbus Thursday as the Attorney General’s Office hosted its seventh annual Human Trafficking Summit. This year’s summit was the first under the leadership of Attorney General Andy Wilson, who has held the job [...]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- Plans to build a new Franklin County Municipal Court building in Downtown Columbus are canceled. The city of Columbus is citing rising construction prices and a tight budget for the decision, saying the money can be used elsewhere. The new municipal court building, which was announced in 2018, was set to [...]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio) cussed out Dr. Anthony Fauci during a tense hearing Wednesday over the response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Fauci repeatedly invoked the Fifth Amendment and did not answer questions from the Republican-led committee. "It was about six years ago today that I decided I'm going to give up [...]

UPPER ARLINGTON, Ohio (WCMH) -- A Rome-born Italian restaurant centered on contemporary Neapolitan-style pizza and wine is planning its first Ohio location in Upper Arlington. Piccolo Buco by Cooper’s Hawk Winery and Restaurant has signed a lease for a roughly 7,600-square-foot space at The Shops on Lane Avenue, according to Kimco Realty, which owns the [...]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- The independent journalist who was tackled by an assistant Ohio State professor filed a lawsuit against him and another faculty member who witnessed the incident, alleging his freedom of speech was infringed upon. The lawsuit states that both Perez and Christopher Green, Ohio State Law professor and former Chase Center associate [...]