Columbus News

Ashland Police investigators were skeptical when Amy Slanina claimed the dog she had with her was a therapy animal.

May 22, 2013 - COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Grammy Award-nominated, and front man of band Staind, Aaron Lewis, will be performing live at The Legend Valley Music Center, an outdoor venue located at Buckeye Lake on Thursday, June 27th.

Sylvania Township Police are investigating a Missing Person case. 25-year-old Jennifer Webster was last seen Monday in Sylvania Township.

Veteran actor-director Geoffrey Nelson is back onstage, and Columbus fortunately still has him.

A local man who is accused of sending a letter to the White House threatening to assassinate President Obama has been charged with a federal count of threatening the president.

Police said a south Columbus office building was evacuated Wednesday afternoon after a bomb threat was called in.

The Thomas E. Thornburg Insect Collection at the Ashland County History Museum soon will be moving to Columbus.

Afternoon Update, sent weekday afternoons, keeps you up to date with breaking news and updates from later in the day.

The final day of hearings before the Columbus Civil Service Commission for Fred Harrison and Leslie Polk took place on Monday.

Columbus city workers, from left, John Stinson, Zach Logue and Jake Lincicoma install a weather siren on Lindora Drive on the East Side.

By RYAN DUNN staff writer OTTAWA -- Michael A. Fay, 17, on Tuesday denied charges of murdering two teenage housemates in Ottawa.

A man is dead after he was shot in the chest on a Near East Side street this afternoon, police said.

The New Albany-Plain Local School District's updated five-year forecast now projects a more than $4 million deficit in fiscal year 2016 after Treasurer Rebecca Jenkins found an accounting error in the previous forecast.

A $1 million bond has been set for former Galion fire lieutenant charged with attempted murder.

The Franklin County coroner has yet to rule on how a missing teen died after she was found in a Hilltop home last week.

As hearings start this week on a Columbus school-district reform bill, an earlier proposal allowing for a state takeover of the state's largest district is likely to vanish.

Officials say the second deadly fall in three days in the Hocking Hills region of southeastern Ohio occurred near a waterfall.

Columbus is starting phase two of its record-setting street-resurfacing program, an installment that will redo 45 streets at a cost of $8.5 million throughout this summer.

The students and staff at Innis Elementary School in Columbus are dealing with not having air conditioning as temperatures rise.

It was a 50-day manhunt but the Columbus fugitive was caught in a hotel near East 112th Street and Buckeye Road.