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Value City Furniture, the Columbus-born discount furniture chain, is winding down for good after its parent, American Signature Inc., failed to land a buyer in a court-supervised sale and kicked off company-wide liquidation sales on January 10, 2026. The shutdown will close remaining local stores, including the Value...

For most Ohioans, elk are something you see on a hunting show filmed out West, or in an old painting, or in a story about the frontier that feels too distant to matter anymore, which is exactly why the sudden reappearance of the word “elk” in statehouse talk has been catching people off guard.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — A new bipartisan bill in the Ohio Senate would prohibit marriage for anyone under the age of 18, with no exceptions. The last time the age limit was set was 2019, and that law still allowed 17-year-olds to get married with parental consent and court-mandated counseling. Now, Ohio Sens. Bill...

Battle rapper Geechi Gotti got arrested in Ohio with nearly 3,000 stolen opioid pills after a failed escape attempt on Interstate 75. More details have emerged about Geechi Gotti and the circumstances surrounding his arrest in Ohio last week. West Chester police stopped Geechi Gotti on February 5 while he...

OHIO — A Newton Falls woman is $300,000 richer after a birthday surprise from her husband led to a jackpot-winning Ohio Lottery scratch-off ticket. According to the Ohio Lottery, the woman’s husband received several scratch-off tickets for his birthday and initially won $150. After cashing in those winnings, he...

Two Ohio asphalt companies have agreed to pay $30 million to settle allegations they submitted fraudulent tests to the Ohio Department of Transportation over the past decade. Kokosing Materials, which has locations throughout Ohio, and Barrett Paving Materials, based in Hamilton, are accused of submitting the same...

Country Herald is Local News, Independent Pulse. Covering breaking local news, sports, lifestyle and events. Columbus, Ohio – A rare genetic mutation could cause a bright yellow northern cardinal to appear in Ohio backyards this spring, an occurrence ornithologists estimate may happen in roughly one in a million...

A list of unusual, historical, and literal road names that'll make you think twice.

Ohio is once again at the center of a campus firestorm after a video published by The Rooster ignited fierce debate across social media, with one blunt refrain echoing from Instagram to Reddit: “This is assault.”. The footage, captured Monday inside Ohio State University’s Smith Laboratory, shows Assistant Professor...

ILLINOIS — A bright fireball was reported just after 11:30 PM Tuesday night, with sightings stretching across parts of the Midwest and lower Great Lakes region. Based on reports submitted to the American Meteor Society, the meteor was visible across portions of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio and Kentucky, moving...