Category — Columbus, Ohio

Authorities are hoping the public will recognize an artist’s sketch of the suspect in the armed robbery of a gas station in Blendon Township in February.

The temperature warms up, the office smack starts flying.  It’s definitely March as we go behind the scenes at NBC 4.

Fire crews have called a second alarm at a Westerville apartment complex Thursday afternoon.

Who will lead Ohio in 2011? NBC 4 takes a look at the contenders.

A local restaurant that served customers for four decades is in danger of closing down. Now, loyal customers are stepping in to help.

Spring Break starts Friday in the Upper Arlington School District and officials are using the time wisely to clean the entire building at Barrington Elementary. 

Deputies are looking for information after a man says he was attacked and stabbed in a tavern parking lot.

Morgan County law enforcement is investigating a bank robbery Wednesday.

The city of Newark is turning some of its houses from hell into little slices of heaven.

An Oak Hill police officer’s life was saved by his bullet-proof vest, and police are searching for the man who shot him.

Columbus police are on the scene of a triple shooting on the city’s near East Side Thursday afternoon, and two schools have been placed on lockdown in response.

UPDATE: Columbus police are looking for four shooting suspects after a triple shooting on the city’s near East Side Thursday afternoon.

A freshman Ohio congressman says an ad showing his two young daughters went too far in the heated debate over health care.

The Ohio Supreme Court has delivered a major setback to efforts by state lawmakers to apply the tough new sex offender notification requirements laid out in the federal Adam Walsh Act.

Facebook would have allowed convicted police officer killer Nikolaus Johnson to keep his page on the social networking site, if he was the one who created and maintained his profile as required by the site’s rules.

Local authorities ask for your help to solve a fatal beating cold-case crime. If you have a tip, you could cash in.

Ohioans are being asked to vote on who they believe should represent the state in the U.S. Capitol’s statuary hall.

A mother says she hopes a new Ohio law will protect other teens from the fate met by her daughter, killed by an ex-boyfriend who had hurt the girl before.

The government is announcing a recall of some 1.2 million high chairs, saying they pose a fall hazard to children.

CPD arrests an 18-year-old Canal Winchester resident in connection to the May 2009 murder of a Columbus man.

Homicide detectives are investigating whether foul play is involved in the death of a 4-year-old boy in east Columbus overnight.

A 31-year-old woman has died after her vehicle overturned on Panhandle Road in Delaware County.

A Charleston woman has pleaded guilty to duct-taping a 2-year-old boy she was baby-sitting.

Ohio’s top transportation official is defending a plan to restore passenger train service in the state, saying the project can be completed with its budgeted $400 million in federal stimulus funds.

Fire crews were called to a home fully involved in flames in Licking County. Officials confirm the home had a meth lab inside.

As part of a new pilot program, the City of Columbus and a local non-profit are handing out rain barrels, hoping to save consumers money and take a load off the city’s aging sewer system.

A local farm is under investigation after one of its horses died. Now, their remaining horse has been seized.

A local homeowner finds another bullet in his home from a neighboring property.

The future of a once-popular local tea house is up in the air.

A man is indicted and given a $26,000 bond for allegedly assaulting a woman with a beer can in late February.