Ohio’s attorney general announced a Romance Impostor Scams Forensic Initiative and a mid‑July hotline to help trace and stop romance fraud aimed at older Ohioans. The effort will pair digital forensics with a central reporting line for law enforcement and the public.

A national engineering firm has bought a historic Gay Street building and will base its national headquarters at 34–38 W. Gay St. in downtown Columbus.

The Point on Main, a decade-long East Side restaurant and live-music room, has closed. Owners said they want more time with family and travel.

Records show executive protection overtime and personnel costs spiked in Columbus as the city faces a roughly $15M shortfall, prompting council scrutiny.

A Columbus man faces a felony weapon charge after court records say he strangled and pistol‑whipped his girlfriend at an apartment on Winslow Drive. The victim was taken to Mount Carmel East; the suspect is due in court Monday.

A person was found unconscious on East Livingston Avenue and remains in critical condition; police arrested a 29-year-old suspect. Detectives are asking witnesses to call in tips.

A second man, 57-year-old Antonio Travis, was indicted and jailed in the December 2024 South Columbus triple homicide; court records list him as a co-defendant.

A 79-year-old rider, Kenneth James, was killed after a Cadillac struck his Can‑Am Ryker in a South Columbus parking lot Friday afternoon, police say.

Scioto County deputies arrested a 21-year-old after investigators say a child under 13 was sexually assaulted at Roosevelt Lake; DNA and witness leads led to the arrest.

A Columbus Business First list shows Central Ohio's top 22 brokerages sold nearly 24,000 homes in 2025, totaling $9.28B — roughly 84% of the region's $11.1B market.

Ohio State plans a roughly $125M renovation of the Woody Hayes Athletic Center and is pushing to scale athletics toward a $500M operating budget. The football team will relocate practices while work proceeds and fundraising is already underway.

A statewide review and federal inspection records show repeated lapses at 16 Arbors facilities; families say fines have not stopped preventable deaths.

AEP Ohio Transmission paid about $25.3M for roughly 337 acres near Plain City to support planned Patina‑Mirkwood transmission upgrades in Madison County.