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COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – This summer will be residents' last chance to visit Ohio Village in its current form before an “ambitious” and “comprehensive” renovation will close the history museum for two years.

The Ohio History Connection launched a renovation project called “Campus 2.OH” to enhance and expand its spaces. After the Ohio State Fair ends on Aug. 4, Ohio Village, located at 800 E. 17th Ave., will close until 2026 with a “new and improved” experience. 

“When Ohio Village is closed temporarily for construction through early 2026, we’ll still have Signature Events, and plans for them are underway,” Executive Director and CEO Megan Wood said. “We can’t wait to let our members and visitors know more about these, and we are planning Ohio Village-related hard-hat tours and forum opportunities for Ohio History Connection members and other stakeholders.”

The project will include the addition of a nature-based play space, a reimagined town center, new experiences for visitors, expanded food and beverage offerings, as well as infrastructure and safety improvements. 

Additionally, the Collections Care Center, built on the northeast part of the Ohio History Center campus to house thousands of historical items, is slated to open in June. 

There is still time to visit Ohio Village before it closes this summer – on July 27, Ohio Village will celebrate its 50th anniversary from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Featured programs will include live music from American Musical Productions, an array of local artisans and Vaudeville, a genre of theater, performances. 

“We are excited about this ongoing work on the Columbus campus, and we look forward to sharing the results with all Ohioans,” Ohio History Connection's Manager of Media and Public Relations Neil Thompson said. “But first, we will celebrate another opening for Ohio Village and embark on the next 50 years of telling Ohio’s history there. We hope our visitors and members will gain a better understanding of the changes in store as they also experience the same feelings of joy and wonder a late-19th-century exposition event would bring to an Ohio town.”

Ohio Village is a living history museum operated by the nonprofit the Ohio History Connection. The village, intended to provide a firsthand look at a 19th-century community, opened on July 27, 1974. 

Watch a previous NBC4 report on Ohio's HIV-criminalization laws in the video player above.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- Ohio laws criminalizing HIV, including a statute barring those with the virus from donating blood, could soon be amended after nearly 80 faced prosecution for failing to disclose their HIV status to sexual partners. 

House Bill 498 has been introduced to repeal Ohio revised code penalizing individuals with HIV who attempt to donate blood, while House Bill 513 has been proposed to amend five other laws that have yielded more than 200 HIV-related criminal prosecutions. Introduced by Rep. Sara Carruthers (R-Hamilton), the bills are backed by a bipartisan group who said the current laws are "based on an outdated understanding of HIV and only help to further stigma."

"It is crucial for Ohio lawmakers to recognize that HIV is not a crime; it is a health condition that requires that supportive network of healthcare professionals across the state dedicated to ending the HIV epidemic," said Nate Albright, the director-at-large of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care.

The proposals come after at least 214 Ohioans were charged from 2014 to 2020 under the laws, including seventy-seven cases litigated under a felonious assault charge that penalizes those with HIV for engaging in sexual conduct without divulging their medical history. The offense can result in a second-degree felony conviction, carrying a $15,000 fine and a two-to-eight-year prison sentence.

More than half, 120 cases, charged the defendants for exposing others to their bodily fluid, like by spitting or biting. The remaining 17 cases from 2014 to 2020 were related to sex work, under solicitation and prostitution laws that can penalize HIV-positive Ohioans for activities that don't lead to the transmission of the virus.

Most recently, a Marietta sex worker was charged with engaging in solicitation after a positive HIV test, leading police to issue a public health notice. The woman was indicted in Washington County for allegedly engaging in sex acts with at least 211 individuals from early 2022 through May of this year.

The six Ohio laws were originally passed to reduce transmission and end the AIDS epidemic. However, the statutes have not been reviewed by the legislature since the 1990s and are outdated given they do not reflect current scientific understanding of HIV, the group said.

These claims are backed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which states HIV is not spread through saliva or unbroken skin and there are no documented cases of the virus spreading through spitting. Those living with HIV also cannot pass the virus through sex when they have reached an undetectable level of HIV in their blood, achieved through medication estimated to be 100% effective. 

"HIV criminalization laws are informed by stigma, not science," said Rhea Debussy, director of external affairs at Equitas Health. "In our state, HIV criminalization laws are disproportionately used against women and Black Ohioans. Modernizing our laws will help to address the inequity and stigma facing people living with HIV here in Ohio."

The proposals also follow a recent federal ruling that struck down a provision requiring health insurance to provide free preventative care services in Ohio like PrEP, a once-daily pill taken to reduce a patient’s likelihood of developing HIV from sex or injection drug use. Nearly 9,000 Ohioans are taking a form of PrEP while more than 27,000 Ohioans are living with HIV, according to data from AIDSVu and the Ohio Department of Health. 

View a video showcasing TeraWulf's nuclear-powered Bitcoin mining facilities in the video player above.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- As AEP Ohio applies with a state regulator for tariffs and discounts for business customers' increasing electricity demand, it has mentioned that cryptocurrency miners are moving into its service area.

AEP Ohio's Vice President of Customer Service Lisa Kelso highlighted the clients, more commonly known for mining Bitcoin, as she described a shift toward IT industries -- miners and data centers included -- becoming the utility provider's "largest load."

"Because cryptocurrency mining is an energy-intensive process that consumes significant electricity and creates a large amount of heat, Ohio’s cooler climate for much of the year is attractive to miners who need to cost-effectively keep their computers operating at moderate temperatures," Kelso wrote. "Multiple cryptocurrency miners have located on or near former utility generation station sites that have been abandoned after deregulation in Ohio because access to transmission capacity is readily available and cryptocurrency mining sites do not need to be near other load or population centers."

Kelso's testimony was part of AEP Ohio's request for two new tariffs, one targeting data centers with more than 25 megawatts of demand and the other focusing on cryptocurrency miners with more than one megawatt of demand. The power company argued it needs them to pressure the two types of customers to use a promised level of electricity if AEP Ohio builds nearby infrastructure to meet their power demands.

The data center tariff would apply a "minimum billing demand of no less than 90%" of its contract capacity, or highest monthly transmission billing demand. The tariff targeting crypto miners would change that percentage to 95%.

Large-scale operations, similar to the nuclear-powered farm connected to Ohio State's president, are basically a necessity for mining Bitcoin, the oldest and most valuable cryptocurrency. In these facilities, specialized computers perform the complex math calculations required to run the network's transactions in exchange for Bitcoin to call their own.

NBC4 asked AEP Ohio's communications team for more information about the miners that Kelso mentioned in five separate paragraphs. They would not share the total number of clients in that category but described them in smaller terms.

"The growth in data center power demand in Central Ohio is driven mainly by data centers engaged in 'non-crypto' activities such as cloud computing and artificial intelligence, not by data centers engaged in cryptocurrency mining operations. … Less than 10% of this increased power demand in Central Ohio is from data centers AEP Ohio knows to be conducting cryptocurrency mining operations," a spokesperson wrote. "Outside of Central Ohio, AEP Ohio has signed ESAs approximately 200 MW of power demand from cryptocurrency mining operations."

To put that amount in perspective, 200 megawatts of power demand is equal to the miners' facilities drawing a maximum 200,000 kilowatts of power at any given time. AEP Ohio has said in the past that its average residential customer -- currently seeing their highest bills in a decade -- uses 1,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity in a month. But it's not possible to do a direct comparison, because the two types of customers have very different bills. Kilowatts are not the same as kilowatt-hours.

"AEP Ohio’s residential customers have energy (kWh) charges but do not have demand (kW) charges," a spokesperson wrote. "For very large customers like data centers that shop for energy supply … their charges from AEP Ohio are predominantly demand (kW) charges with only a small energy (kWh) component."

Separate from mining companies, researchers have already voiced environmental concerns about data centers' similar electricity usage. Ohio State University professor Jeff Bielicki said a “typical” data center can consume between 10 and 50 times the energy of a commercial building, per unit of area, or “about 16,000 60-watt light bulbs per square meter.”

At the same time that AEP Ohio filed for the new tariff, it separately applied to give a secret discount to Amazon as it ramps up building $7.8 billion worth of data centers in central Ohio. The application discloses that Amazon is already running a hidden number of data center campuses in Hilliard, Dublin and New Albany, and their discount would be applied in two phases.

During the first phase, for each data center that "reaches and maintains a monthly peak load" of a hidden amount in megawatts, Amazon will get a secret percentage discount on bills to each of those campuses. For each new data center campus that Amazon starts powering, the percent discount would increase. But besides this deal, AEP Ohio expects Amazon to pay all charges and riders, including tariffs.

The discount moves into a second stage once Amazon deploys a "battery storage system" at one of its local data center campuses. The campus will then lose the first-stage billing discount and decrease the secret percentage for the other campuses, but AEP Ohio would then calculate that battery-backed data center's transmission charges based on its "network service peak load value."

AEP Ohio's communications team declined to share any details about the discount beyond what was in the documents.

"Competitively-sensitive and confidential information, including the information you are requesting, was filed under seal in the Amazon Data Services (ADS) proceeding based in part on ADS’s statement that its competitors could use this information 'to ascertain one of the most critical cost components for data center operations, which is energy, and thus place ADS at a competitive disadvantage in the global cloud computing market,'" a spokesperson wrote.

The pair's application for the secret discount comes on the heels of Amazon earning a 30-year tax break from New Albany City Council. For the first 15 years, its data centers in the area will be exempt from 100% of their property taxes.

Amazon's $7.8 billion investment will expand its Ohio data center presence through 2030. It's among a litany of tech companies to gather around Intel's coming semiconductor fabrication plant. Next door to Amazon's existing New Albany data centers, Microsoft spent nearly $57 million on property that county commissioners theorized will become the same. Google has piled on with two data centers as well, one in Columbus and one in Lancaster.

Another $1 billion data center is also on the way from Washington D.C.-based DBT-Data. QTS out of Kansas is also putting $1.5 billion down to build one of its own in New Albany as well.

View Kelso's testimony on cryptocurrency miners here, and AEP Ohio and Amazon's application for a discount here.

• Today: Mostly sunny, high 88
• Tonight: Few clouds, low 66
• Tuesday: Mainly sunny, isolated sprinkle, high 88
• Wednesday: Storms later, high 85
• Thursday: Showers early, clearing, high 77
• Friday: Partly cloudy, showers late, high 78

Happy Monday!

We continue our stretch of hot, summer-like temperatures on this Monday, with highs warming to the upper 80s to near 90 this afternoon. We'll see mostly sunny skies, with only a few clouds out during the afternoon, and just a light wind. Luckily, humidity remains mostly pleasant, just nearing a "muggy" feel.

For our Tuesday, we remain mainly dry, with lots of sunshine, and highs warming back into the upper 80s. We'll see just a very isolated sprinkle chance for our Tuesday.

By Wednesday, the pattern starts to change. We start the day mainly dry, with increasing clouds, and highs warming into the middle 80s. Showers and thunderstorms then return later into the evening and overnight hours. This is a timeframe we'll be watching for the potential for some stronger storm activity.

Showers linger into at least the first half of our Thursday, but they'll gradually get lighter. Expect Highs Thursday to fall back to the upper 70s, with gradual clearing later in the day.

Friday looks to remain mostly dry, with highs in the upper 70s. We'll then see the chance for showers later Friday and overnight into early Saturday.

-McKenna

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- Mental Health America of Ohio said it is seeing an increase in the suicide rate in Franklin County, and local musicians teamed up with the organization to ensure people know they are not alone.

The You Matter benefit concert at Natalie's Grandview Sunday night brought people out for music, but also for awareness of mental health issues and those they affect.

Columbus area musicians came together to raise money for suicide awareness. For the event's organizer, it’s a personal cause: John Estep lost his son to suicide.

"If it's ourselves or someone we know, we know someone struggling with mental health," Estep said. 

He brought central Ohio musicians together to raise money so others won’t have to go through their struggles alone.

"As part of the musical community, it's been hit very hard as well," Estep said. "I did what I could do, which is I play music and I know a lot of people who play music."

Many musicians took the stage while the Franklin County Suicide Prevention Coalition and Mental Health America of Ohio shared resources. 

"Playing all kinds of music by bands who were affected by mental health challenges and suicide," Estep said.

The goal is to spread awareness and reduce the stigma.

The Health Policy Institute of Ohio said suicide was in the top five leading causes of death among Ohioans ages 15 to 64 in 2022.

"We're really appreciative of opportunities to bring mental health and the awareness of resources in our community up into conversations so that, together as a community, we can increase the number of people who reach out for lifesaving support," Franklin County Suicide Prevention Coalition Director at Mental Health America of Ohio Michelle Vargas said. 

"When I first started this, even people I didn't know really close started reaching out and telling me their stories. So, you know, I think, at the end of the day, reach out to somebody," Estep said. 

If you or someone know you is struggling, call the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline in Ohio.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- A portion of State Route 23 was closed Sunday night after reports of a pedestrian being hit by a car, the Franklin County Sheriff's Office said.

The accident happened at approximately 9:11 p.m. on SR-23 just south of the Interstate 270 exit.

There is no word on the condition of the person hit by the vehicle or what led to the person being in the roadway.

By 10:40 p.m., the roadway had reopened.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- Downtown Columbus was filled with more than 1,100 girls Sunday morning for the Girls on the Run 5K.

The race started at Columbus Commons with coaches and other loved ones running alongside the girls. The run is meant to be a celebration for girls from 3rd through 8th grade who finished their 10-week program that includes important lessons about fitness, confidence and social skills.

“When it comes to the physical activity side of things, there is absolutely no competition," said Sarah Hider, executive director of Girls on the Run of Central Ohio. "It’s all about setting your own goals, running at your happy pace and getting across that finish line however that goal is accomplished for you.”

Girls on the Run is an international non-profit where teams meet twice a week. Hider says each year is important but this race was extra special because it also marked a major milestone for them. The program has now served more than 20,000 girls in central Ohio.

“It’s also a special day to be able to commemorate that and celebrate the thousands of people who have made this possible for girls to grow in their confidence and to be able to feel like they have the opportunity to achieve their dreams with the tools they’ve been given,” said Hider.

The spring session is now complete but it all starts back up again in the fall. You can learn more by clicking here.

NEW YORK (AP) — Apparel manufacturer Fanatics has filed a lawsuit against former Ohio State University Buckeye and Arizona Cardinals rookie receiver Marvin Harrison Jr., alleging breach of contract.

The lawsuit filed in New York Supreme Court on Saturday claims Harrison did not fulfill his obligations and estimated the damage in “millions of dollars.”

Harrison was a star receiver at Ohio State when he signed the deal in 2023 and the Cardinals used the No. 4 overall pick to select him in last month's NFL draft. Details of the contract were redacted and Harrison has publicly denied its existence.

ESPN reported the deal was for at least $1 million for autographs, signed trading cards, game-worn apparel and other marketing opportunities.

Harrison does not have an agent and has been represented by his father, Hall of Fame receiver Marvin Harrison. Harrison Jr. has yet to sign the NFL Players Association's group licensing agreement, which would allow the association to market his name, image and likeness.

The Cardinals did not immediately respond to a message from The Associated Press seeking comment.

The weather will be sunny and warm, with to high pressure building down from the Great Lakes keeping conditions dry. Temperatures will rise into the mid- 80s. Skies will be mainly clear overnight, with morning readings near 60 degrees.

A weak cold front will stall across the lower Great Lakes early in the week, where a few showers and storms will develop and graze northern portions of Ohio. Farther south, skies will be partly cloudy, with a warm southerly breeze and moderate humidity.

The next storm system tracking from the southern Plains to the Great Lakes will bring showers and storms later on Wednesday ahead of a cold front. Rain will end Thursday morning, with slightly cooler and drier air settling in later in the week.

Another chance for scattered showers and storms will develop next weekend.

• Sunday: Partly cloudy. High 87
• Tonight: Mainly clear. Low 63
• Monday: Mostly sunny. High 88
• Tuesday: Partly cloudy. High 87 (64)
• Wednesday: Partly sunny, storms p.m. High 84 (69)
• Thursday: Rain a.m., partly sunny. High 76 (67)
• Friday: Sunshine. High 77 (56)
• Saturday: Partly sunny, showers possible. High 81 (58)

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- One person is dead after being shot Sunday morning in Downtown Columbus.

A police dispatcher said they received a report at 5:20 a.m. of a shooting at the 300 block of Marshall Passage near Franklin University. One victim with a gunshot wound was found and taken to Grant Medical Center, which is located a half a mile away from the location of the shooting.

The victim was pronounced dead at the hospital at 6:10 a.m., per a police dispatcher. No suspect information is available at this time.

For earlier reports of this story view the video player above.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – Police are seeking assistance in solving the murder of two men who were gunned down in north Columbus during the winter of 2022.

On Dec. 8, 2022, officers responded to the 1000 block of Marland Drive in the Maize-Morse neighborhood where two people were suffering from gunshot wounds. The first victim, 37-year-old Branden Morris, was pronounced dead at the scene at 6:53 p.m. The second victim, 45-year-old Matthew Scheurell, was taken to Riverside Methodist Hospital, where he was pronounced at 7:21 p.m.

At the time of the shooting police did not provide any information on a suspect or any possible motive for the crime.

Crime Stoppers is offering a cash reward for any information leading to the arrest and/or indictment of the person(s) responsible for this crime. Anyone with information is asked to call 614-461-TIPS (8477) or visit www.stopcrime.org and submit your tip.

Overdose deaths tragically rose during the COVID-19 pandemic, sparking renewed calls for awareness of substance use disorders and access to treatment.

The once-in-a-century global health crisis had widespread impacts on physical and mental health and coincided with America's worsening fentanyl epidemic. And though calls have been made to expand access to treatment, people with substance use disorders often face barriers to getting the help they need to survive addiction to deadly substances like opioids.

Stigmatization of these disorders, a lack of capacity at treatment centers where waitlists are common, and unaffordability of treatment present some of the most critical challenges to Americans' ability to get help, researchers have found.

And the population using Medicaid is more likely than those on commercial insurance to live with a substance use disorder: 21% of Medicaid users had some form of SUD compared to 16% of commercially insured Americans, according to KFF, the nonpartisan health research firm formerly known as Kaiser Health News.

In order to visualize how Medicaid acceptance rates can vary by state, Ophelia analyzed data collected by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration in its survey of substance use disorder treatment centers nationwide. The data used in this analysis covers both public and private institutions, totaling nearly 15,000 locations nationwide.

American treatment centers do not universally accept Medicaid, and only 74% of them took it as payment in 2022, according to SAMHSA. Medicaid even covers methadone treatment for opioid use disorder, though the fraction of treatment centers offering opioid treatment programs also do not accept Medicaid universally. And when patients can't utilize insurance, their only option is to pay out of pocket.

See the full national analysis here.

Ohio by the numbers

Substance use disorder treatment centers that accepted Medicaid in 2022: 93.4%
Percentage point change in acceptance rate from prior year: -.4 percentage points
Total facilities: 649

Top states for Medicaid acceptance:
1. Idaho 94.8%
2. Ohio 93.4%
3. Vermont 93.3%
4. Wyoming 92.9%
5. Iowa 91.6%

Worst states for Medicaid acceptance:
1. Hawaii 33.1%
2. California 45.6%
3. Florida 47%
4. Georgia 55.3%
5. Mississippi 60.4%

This story features data reporting and writing by Dom DiFurio and is part of a series utilizing data automation across 51 states.

• Today: Clear skies, high 87
• Tonight: Mostly clear, low 63
• Monday Few clouds, high 89 (64)
• Tuesday: Mostly sunny, high 86 (67)
• Wednesday: Chance of t-storms, high 82 (60)
• Thursday: Clouds clearing, high 74 (56)

Sunday continues the warming temperature trend. Highs will be in the mid to upper 80s, more than 10 degrees above normal for this time of year. There is going to be plenty of sunshine to go along with these warmer temps as well. Winds will stay light today even as a weak cold front moves over the area.

Tonight will be another mild night as lows will only fall to the low 60. Skies will stay mostly clear as a ridge of high pressure begins to settle in the region. Overall a very quiet night is expected weather wise.

The first half of the upcoming workweek will stay sunny and dry as well. Plenty of sunshine with very few clouds are expected on Monday. Highs will be in the upper 80s. There is a possibility that a town or two will crack the 90 degree mark.

The warmer temperatures will stick around through Wednesday. By then a system will move through bringing showers and thunderstorms. The cooler temps will not last for long, as a rebound back to the 80s will return by the week's end.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- Central Ohio kids in need of some hope got a lot of support Saturday at the Central Ohio Wish Gala.

The event brought out hundreds of people to bid on auction items and listen to powerful stories of strength. Make-A-Wish is showing that its wishes are truly for warriors.

Kendall Rogers is a 12-year-old living with spinal muscular atrophy.

"It mainly affects my muscles,” she said. “It affects quite literally everything besides my head. So that's why I'm in a wheelchair because my muscles are too weak to be able to walk.”

However, that’s not stopping her from achieving her dreams. Her wish is to be an interior designer, and she did just that.

She redesigned a room, was able to take a design class, made a 3D computer model of a room and even designed a chair which was auctioned off at the event.

"It was really nice because I'm used to all online things and it's not the most realistic things because they're all games,” Rogers said. “But when I got to make the room in real life, that was really cool to see.”

"Kendall is just an amazing person. Her chair doesn't define her. She's one of the coolest people you could ever meet,” Kendall's aunt Laura Edwards said.

At the gala, people got to hear Kendall’s story and others. Make-A-Wish shared that 80 percent of their wish kids beat their illness.

"You battle through, you get to have a day as well,” Make-A-Wish alum Ryan Herron said. “So back in ‘01, I actually had my wish granted, I was able to go coach the Harlem Globetrotters. Everyone thinks Make-A-Wish and thinks terminally ill. I'm almost 40. I still talk about my wish. It lasts for a lifetime."

Herron was diagnosed with cancer in high school. He beat cancer and now is back helping the organization that helped him.

"It's extremely emotional and gratifying because wishes aren’t just for those kids and what they're going through,” he said. “It's for the parents to have to deal with everything and actually get a break.”

"It really does help change lives, and I know that's like a tacky saying and everyone says it about things, but when you have hope, that can really help change things and you can meet new people who do change your life," Rogers said.

Last year, the organization granted 1205 wishes and this year, the organization hopes to top that.

"Honestly, what is so awesome about a wish, it provides so much joy in a time that we feel our children need it most, and so thinking about their wish and anticipating it allows for that joy to come to life, and so we get to be a piece of that, and then they get to experience the wish," Make-A-Wish Foundation Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana Chief Mission Officer Juli Miller said.

To make a donation or for more information on Make-A-Wish, click here.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- The 32nd Susan G. Komen Columbus Race for the Cure was Saturday morning at North Bank Park.

More than 7,500 participants gathered and raised more than $800,000 for breast cancer research and treatment. NBC4 is a proud sponsor of the race that brings community members together.

“This community is just something special. The breast cancer community rallies around each other,” said Lindsay Collins, executive director of Susan G. Komen Columbus.

Breast cancer survivor Misty Martin said seeing how much money is raised each year shows just how important the event can be. She was diagnosed in 2022 and finished treatment last year. She used to do the race even before her diagnosis.

“It is so important to find a cure so that my loved ones, my daughters, don’t have to go through this," Martin said. "So making people aware, raising funds to find research and find a cure is so near and dear to my heart. Now, it’s such a different feeling in my heart being on the other side."

Joe Wilson was also on the other side of the event this year. He has participated for at least a decade due to breast cancer running in his family. Now he is part of the fight after being diagnosed four years ago.

“You know your body the best and be an advocate for yourself," he said. "I wish I would have done it sooner but I know now and I try to help others to realize that as well."

According to the American Cancer Society, less than one percent of breast cancer cases occur in men. He says while it’s unlikely, it is still important for men to get checked if they feel something is wrong.

Click here for more information on the Komen Race for the Cure.

BUCYRUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- A man suffered minor injuries after the small plane he was flying hit high-tension wires Saturday afternoon.

According to the Ohio State Highway Patrol, a 51-year-old Stone Creek man was flying an Air Tractor AT-602 plane near State Route 602 and Country Road 26 in Crawford County at approximately 2:30 p.m. when he hit the wires, causing the plane to crash into a field.

The man refused medical treatment or transportation to the hospital after the crash.

According to its website, the AT-602 is a single-engine plane primarily used as a crop duster.

The highway patrol was assisted at the scene by the Crawford County Sheriff's Office, New Washington Fire, First Life EMS, and American Electric Power Company.

The crash remains under investigation and the Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board have been notified, police said.