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COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- The Ohio State Buckeyes are set to make the College Football Playoff again and will learn their path towards back-to-back national titles on Sunday. The 12-team bracket is set to be revealed at noon and after Saturday's 13-10 loss to No. 2 Indiana in the Big Ten championship game, No. 1 [...]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — A man from the Northeast Side has been arrested and accused of attempting to rape a blind person. According to court documents, Mifflin Township police were called to a home on Parkwood Avenue in the Arlington Park neighborhood after receiving a report of a sexual assault. The person reporting the assault [...]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- One person is dead after a crash involving a police cruiser early Sunday morning in a west Columbus neighborhood. Columbus police said officers were driving towards a burglary in progress at 2:50 a.m. in Franklinton. The cruiser was going east on West Broad Street towards Central Avenue with its sirens and [...]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — A convicted sex offender from Dublin has been sentenced to a lengthy stay in federal prison after arranging to meet up with who he thought was a minor in Cincinnati. According to federal prosecutors, Kyle Tennyson, 35, used the social media app Kasual to talk with and arrange to meet who [...]

POWELL, Ohio (WCMH) – A family-owned restaurant that serves a blend of Cuban, Mexican and American fare is preparing to open a new location in Powell. Three Brothers Diner is coming to 345 W. Olentangy St., which housed Monte Carlo Italian Kitchen before it closed in May. The restaurant will hold a grand opening on [...]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- Ohio lawmakers are weighing a proposal that would create a statewide grant program to help schools offer kosher and halal food options for students with religious dietary restrictions. House Bill 562, introduced in October by Reps. Ismail Mohamed (D-Columbus) and Beryl Brown Piccolantonio (D-Gahanna), would appropriate $300,000 in fiscal year 2027 [...]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency released a report finding that the demand for water is skyrocketing. The report cited competing needs between industrial centers and agriculture. “We're all individual entities, but we all exist in the same circumstance. And we all ought to be partnering together, working together,” said Jim Roberts, [...]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- This week President Trump voiced negative comments about the Somali community. Now many people, including city leaders, are taking action, pushing back against his words. Community members and elected officials like Columbus City Council President Shannon Hardin gathered at city hall today all with the same mission, showing support for Somali [...]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- One person is dead after a shooting in the North Linden neighborhood of Columbus Saturday afternoon. According to a Columbus police media release, officers responded to a shooting in the 2600 block of Osceola Avenue just before 1 p.m. Columbus police say the victim, who has not been identified, was pronounced [...]

INDIANAPOLIS (WCMH) -- It's a meeting of the top two teams in the country and the only unbeaten schools left in the Football Bowl Subdivision. No. 1 Ohio State and No. 2 Indiana go head-to-head for the Big Ten Championship at Lucas Oil Stadium, with the winner likely earning the overall top seed in the [...]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine has ordered U.S. and Ohio flags to be flown at half-staff on Sunday, the anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor. The flags are being lowered on all public buildings in Ohio from sunrise to sunset to honor the American soldiers lost in the Dec. 7, 1941, [...]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — An ex-soldier from Columbus charged with multiple federal counts related to child pornography has changed his plea. According to prosecutors, Austin Pittman has admitted to distributing images of real child pornography and using AI to “morph videos and photos of real children” into images of child pornography. The investigation into Pittman, [...]

JACKSON, Ohio (WCMH) — A woman from North Carolina was arrested in Jackson County allegedly in possession of nearly $550,000 worth of suspected cocaine. On Wednesday about 6:15 p.m., Ohio State Highway Patrol troopers initiated a traffic stop of a vehicle traveling well above the speed limit on U.S. 35 at the East Broadway Street [...]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – A juvenile is in life-threatening condition after an accidental shooting in west Columbus on Friday evening. Columbus police officers were called to the 200 block of South Wheatland Avenue in the Hilltop on the report of a shooting at 6:26 p.m. When they arrived, they found a minor suffering from a [...]

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COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- Car crashes that kill or seriously injure pedestrians and bicyclists are increasing, with Columbus reporting 115 incidents in 2024. “If a street's designed like a highway, folks and vehicles are going to treat it like a highway," Trevin Flickinger, vice chair of Transit Columbus, said. "Street design is one of the [...]

WEST JEFFERSON, Ohio (WCMH)— Columbus and Franklin Metro Parks have confirmed a rare bobcat sighting in central Ohio. Metro Parks shared video from a trail camera showing the wild cat in Prairie Oaks Metro Park, which straddles the Franklin-Madison County line. Parks officials say data and timestamp on the video are incorrect, and that it [...]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- A Columbus-based utility company is helping its neighbors in need. Employees with Columbia Gas stopped by St. Stephen's Community House on Friday to drop off food donations. The company said its workers wanted to help those affected by last month's delayed SNAP benefits due to the government shutdown. Columbus Gas also [...]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- Gov. Mike DeWine was at Nationwide Children’s Hospital Thursday afternoon to announce a new $5 million state investment into childhood cancer research at five different medical institutes across Ohio. During his remarks, DeWine repeatedly said that children’s medical research is “grossly underfunded” in the United States. “We are making a statement [...]

LEWIS CENTER, Ohio (WCMH) -- Player families, students, and fans braved the cold temperatures Friday afternoon to cheer for the Olentangy Orange High School football team. The Pioneers are playing in their first-ever OHSAA Division 1 state championship game.   People lined the streets just outside the high school as team buses pulled out to [...]