Columbus OH

MUSKINGUM COUNTY, OH (WTRF) – A Columbus man suspected in 37 retail thefts in Franklin County and with nine separate felony theft cases filed against him will spend four years in prison after committing four additional theft offenses in Muskingum County. Dejuan Edwards was sentenced by Muskingum County Common Pleas Cou

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – About a dozen Ohio laws take effect Tuesday, including measures requiring drivers to provide basic identifying information at traffic stops and mandating that schools teach students they are more likely to succeed if they get married before having children. Gov. Mike DeWine signed 13 bills on Ju

JEROME TOWNSHIP, Ohio (WSYX) — Jerome Township trustees are meeting Tuesday morning with a single agenda item that could determine whether Fire Chief Doug Stewart keeps his job. The agenda lists “the considerations of the discipline or dismissal of a public employee.” Stewart has been on paid administrative leave...

Light that pile up without checking the rulebook first, and Ohio law might have more to say about it than your neighbor does. Burning leaves sits in a gray area for plenty of homeowners who assume it’s either flat-out legal or flat-out banned statewide. Neither assumption holds up. Ohio...

Some shopping trips begin with a list. Mine usually end with me wondering how a lamp, framed print, and chair are all supposed to fit in the back seat. That is part of the fun at Ohio’s biggest secondhand shops. A quick browse can easily turn into an afternoon, especially when the aisles seem to keep going.

Tennessee's botched execution is once again raising nationwide questions about capital punishment and the effectiveness of what is, at the moment, Ohio’s only legal method of execution.

A giant salamander rescued from an Ohio construction zone has been released back into the wild.

Starting Oct. 5, Ohioans have new limitations in buying recreational cannabis products.

Tyler Thomas pleaded not guilty Monday to a federal indictment in the death of Hailey Buzbee, the 17-year-old from Fishers, Indiana, who was last seen at her home on Jan. 5.

Since 2009, former Delphi workers have been fighting to get their pensions back. Some 20,000 salaried retirees — almost half of them in Ohio — had those pensions cut by as much as 70% when GM filed for bankruptcy amid the Great Recession. Over the years, little progress...