Madison County News

By MATT NICHOLS Staff Writer A former Wapakoneta Police chief is tasting freedom for the first time in two years.

CENTRAL OHIO Did the thunder and lightning wake you up a little too early? Storm Team 4's Bob Nunnally said to plan for more scattered showers and storms today.

Is there a problem in your neighborhood? Tell The Watch. Each Tuesday, The Dispatch features a problem from Columbus, its suburbs and surrounding counties and explains how officials are working -- or not ...

A witness to a crash that left one man dead Sunday afternoon told investigators that the fatality came as a result of two cars drag racing, according to a release issued by the Ohio State Highway Patrol.

A witness to a crash that left one man dead Sunday afternoon told investigators that the fatality came as a result of two cars drag racing, according to a release issued by the Ohio State Highway Patrol.

A witness to a crash that left one man dead Sunday afternoon told investigators that the fatality came as a result of two cars drag racing, according to a release issued by the Ohio State Highway Patrol.

A witness to a crash that left one man dead Sunday afternoon told investigators that the fatality came as a result of two cars drag racing, according to a release issued by the Ohio State Highway Patrol.

A witness to a crash that left one man dead Sunday afternoon told investigators that the fatality came as a result of two cars drag racing, according to a release issued by the Ohio State Highway Patrol.

A witness to a crash that left one man dead Sunday afternoon told investigators that the fatality came as a result of two cars drag racing, according to a release issued by the Ohio State Highway Patrol.

A witness to a crash that left one man dead Sunday afternoon told investigators that the fatality came as a result of two cars drag racing, according to a release issued by the Ohio State Highway Patrol.

WEST JEFFERSON, Ohio - A witness to a crash that left one man dead Sunday afternoon told investigators that the fatality came as a result of two cars drag racing, according to a release issued by the Ohio State ...

The kitchen floor has a worn black spot. It was there that James Guy spent many of his waking hours, drawing plans for the experimental aircraft he was building in his living room -- or studying stock tables in ...

Obscured behind trees, Ohio State Highway Patrol officers examine the wreckage of an ultralight plane that crashed in a wooded area in Madison County.

CIRCLEVILLE - A new lane reduction on U.S. 23 in Pickaway County starts today. The southbound lanes will be reduced to one lane between River Road and Emerson Road from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. for bridge work.

As gas prices continue to rise, the five-week long road trip will take you to places closer to home.

A London resident charged with rape and some related crimes told prosecutors he had a history with eight or nine hundred prostitutes in the last seven years.

A Madison County man who told police he has had sex with hundreds of women has been charged with raping one Columbus woman and kidnapping another.

A man suspected in what authorities called a "monumental" string of sex-related crimes faced a Franklin County judge Saturday morning, two days after he was involved in an early morning chase.

A 19-year-old Plain City man died this morning after he rolled his car into a soy bean field, according to the State Highway Patrol.

Joel Plott, left, a biologist, and Troy Nethers, a worker with the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, have their nets ready to scoop up fish stunned by an electric shock shot into the fast-flowing Clear Fork ...