This article discusses suicide. If you or someone you know is experiencing a mental health crisis, call or text 988 to reach the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline available 24/7. To reach the 24/7 Crisis Text Helpline, text 4HOPE to 741741. COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — An east Columbus house fire that left three people dead and [...]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — A Columbus man was in court Wednesday after being accused of abusing a woman over a nine-hour period in east Columbus. According to a Columbus police incident report, officers were called to an outpatient care center on Leonard Avenue after receiving calls from a domestic violence incident. Officers spoke with the [...]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- A member of a violent street gang will spend nearly two decades behind bars. Teddy Asefa, 37, of Columbus, was sentenced Tuesday to 17 1/2 years in prison after pleading guilty to charges related to drug trafficking and wire fraud, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Ohio's office said. [...]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — A cyclist suffered serious injuries in an east Columbus hit-skip late Tuesday night. According to a released incident report, Columbus police are searching for a silver or gold Chevrolet Malibu, which was in the vicinity of Tussing Road near Continental Drive at 10:15 p.m. Tuesday. The Malibu was heading westbound on [...]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — One of four suspects arrested in the shooting of an unarmed man in southeast Columbus received a life sentence in court Monday afternoon. According to the Franklin County Prosecutor’s Office, Caleb Johnson was found guilty in the murder of 25-year-old Jahaan Harris, who was gunned down on June 14, 2024 in [...]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — The last of six defendants in connection with a human sex trafficking ring, dismantled by a central Ohio task force, has been sentenced after court procedures spanning several years. Alexias Carr-Johnson, one of six total defendants tried related to a south Columbus human trafficking ring, was sentenced to serve two-years of community [...]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — A teenager arrested in a homicide near Nationwide Children’s Hospital nearly two years ago was tried as an adult and pleaded guilty to a one of five charges. According to court records, 19-year-old Marvin Holt was sentenced to at least 10 years in prison and up to 13½ years for the [...]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — A three-time convicted felon is facing multiple federal charges related to trafficking in large amounts of drugs, including fentanyl. According to prosecutors, a federal grand jury has indicted 35-year-old Samuel Griffith on six total charges – five counts of selling, distributing, or dispensing a controlled substance, and one count of unlawful [...]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Four years after a man and two young children were gunned down while sitting in a car in southeast Columbus, their killer or killers remain unknown. According to Central Ohio Crime Stoppers, the investigation is ongoing into the death of Charles Wade and two small children, Demetrius Wall-Neal and Londynn Wall-Neal, [...]

WAVERLY, Ohio (WCMH) — A former police officer in Pike County will spend the next decade in federal prison for his role in running a steroid and cocaine ring out of southern Ohio. According to prosecutors, a U.S. District Court judge sentenced Mark Anglemyer Jr. to 10 years for leading a drug trafficking ring that [...]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — The mother of a 6-year-old girl who was fatally beaten was sentenced Friday to prison. According to the Franklin County Prosecutor’s Office, Ashley Fagan will serve at least 18 years in prison, and as many as 23½, in the death of Eva Bretz, who died April 13 after suffering traumatic injuries. [...]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — A Columbus man facing allegations of the sexual assault of a minor has been arrested after multiple complaints within nine months. According to court records, 27-year-old Emanuel Latroy Mosley is charged with the rape of a teenager after the victim told police she was assaulted on Dec. 4. in the East [...]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Two arrests have been made in connection with the 2021 fatal shooting of a man outside of a northeast Columbus bowling alley. According to court records, Columbus police arrested Andre Stromer after a years-long investigation into the murder of Keishawn Riley, who was found lying in the parking lot at the [...]

DELAWARE, Ohio (WCMH) — A Delaware man missing since March has reportedly been found dead in a car submerged in a large body of water. According to Chaos Divers, 21-year-old Trenton Rollins was found dead after a vehicle was pulled out of Hoover Reservoir, located northeast of Westerville and south of Galena. In efforts to [...]

POWELL, Ohio (WCMH) — A woman shopping at a Delaware County grocery store found something in her bag that made her immediately stop in her tracks. A woman told NBC4 that after she left a Kroger grocery store in Powell, she discovered a dead frog in her unopened salad kit. The woman purchased a Kroger [...]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — A man is dead after being struck by a garbage truck in south Columbus early Tuesday morning. According to Columbus police, for unknown reasons, a man was standing in the roadway on Corr Road, in between Parsons Avenue and Lockbourne Road near the Far South train yard. Police said that at [...]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — The common practice of gasoline price cycling made its rounds throughout the state of Ohio, but the rise in cost was not as abrupt as in recent weeks. According to GasBuddy’s survey of 500 stations in and around Columbus, Ohio, gas prices climbed 13.8 cents from last week, to average out [...]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — A man from the Northeast Side has been arrested and accused of attempting to rape a blind person. According to court documents, Mifflin Township police were called to a home on Parkwood Avenue in the Arlington Park neighborhood after receiving a report of a sexual assault. The person reporting the assault [...]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — A convicted sex offender from Dublin has been sentenced to a lengthy stay in federal prison after arranging to meet up with who he thought was a minor in Cincinnati. According to federal prosecutors, Kyle Tennyson, 35, used the social media app Kasual to talk with and arrange to meet who [...]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — An ex-soldier from Columbus charged with multiple federal counts related to child pornography has changed his plea. According to prosecutors, Austin Pittman has admitted to distributing images of real child pornography and using AI to “morph videos and photos of real children” into images of child pornography. The investigation into Pittman, [...]