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Man dies during Fairfax flash flooding; neighbors report electrocution

FAIRFAX, Ohio (WXIX) - A man died Friday after flash flooding struck the area, according to authorities. Callers to 9-1-1 reported the man was electrocuted. Authorities have not yet identified the man or confirmed his cause of death. What neighbors saw. Video provided by a neighbor shows floodwaters covering Warren...
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ODOT Road Project Report For July 19 – July 25

The rise of summer has brought with it a substantial amount of work on the region’s roadways. Below is information from the Ohio Department of Transportation for improvement and construction projects for Delaware and Franklin Counties during the coming week. As always, work is weather dependent. DELAWARE. The following
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Shootings that injured 2 men believed to be connected

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Two men were injured in separate shootings on opposite sides of Columbus Saturday, which police believe are connected. Officers arrived to the 600 block of Silverwood St. in northeast Columbus at around 1 p.m. where they located an adult male suffering from a gunshot wound to his torso, accordin
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Leaking Ohio injection wells spark fears radioactive brine will reach drinking water

"That's going to cost tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars."
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Ohio township leaders warn cuts to police, fire and roads coming if property tax...

Next to some of the oldest graves at Melscheimer Cemetery in Stark County sits a quaint, red one-room schoolhouse. On a recent sunny morning, Pike Township Trustee Doug Baum visited the historic structure. “If we would have torn the schoolhouse down, there would have been a small revolution in this...
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Columbus weather: Calmer finish to the weekend

The second half of the weekend brings quieter weather with a little bit of haze. Central Ohio will also enjoy a stretch of much lower humidity. Columbus’ weather will eventually see a chance for storms later in the week.
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Outdoors: Panfishing can land you dinner or a state record

P anfishing is usually the start of a child ’ s way into fishing. It ’s the innocence and simplicity of just sitting on the bank with your dad or grandfather or mom or grandmother whiling away the time. Maybe it ’ s easier, but it ’ s still fun! And every once in a while you hook a rogue bass and then it ’s really on.
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Ohio ‘House of Horrors’: How specialists are interviewing 16 kids

(NewsNation) — A forensic interviewer involved in the Turpin family case, in which 13 malnourished children were confined to a Perris, California, "house of horrors," is offering insight into how specialists will try to gather information from the 16 minors recently rescued from squalid conditions in Hamden, Ohio. Deni
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Columbus police seeks leads in 2025 Fourth of July fatal shooting at ‘pop-up’ party

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — A Fourth of July shooting from a year ago has police still searching for the person who killed one and injured several others. According to Central Ohio Crime Stoppers, officers arrived to the 800 block of Wilson Avenue in the Southern Orchards neighborhood, where multiple people had been shot a
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This Ominously Named Hike Is Actually One of Ohio’s Best Trails

I have a theory about hiking trails. The friendlier the name, the more likely that trail is going to humble you. Something called Butterfly Meadow somehow ends with me clinging to a root, wondering if my knees have always made that sound. Then there’s Hellbender Bluff Park Loop in Lisbon, Ohio. With a name like […]

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