Billy L. Wilburn III is barred from Obetz youth sports after felony charges tied to a Kik Messenger video. Parents say their trust is shaken.

A 24-year-old remains critical after a Thursday shooting on East 5th Avenue, a block with a violent history.

Newly released records show a Columbus officer searched surveillance cameras for a truck fleeing ICE — and found nothing.

A federal judge handed down prison terms up to 20 years for five Ohio and California traffickers who moved meth and cocaine by mail and airline suitcase.

Family members on Hibbs Road couldn't pull him out; a passerby stopped to help before medics arrived.

A predawn pileup near Cleveland Avenue closed eastbound I-270 for roughly five hours and sent one driver to Riverside Methodist in critical condition.

Police are asking for help identifying a gunman who robbed a juvenile on Fornof Road.

Firefighters battled flames on the roof of New Carlisle Elementary School as students and staff evacuated safely Wednesday night.

Police swarmed Dana Avenue before dawn Thursday after two people were shot near Starling PreK-8, a nearby school.

A Hilliard police officer was involved in a shooting along Lowell Lane in Hilliard, according to the local FOP lodge. No officers were injured, and the man who was shot was hospitalized in stable condition.

Coroner Buddy Bryan identified the man killed at the Motel 6 as Jonathan Tennie, 35 — the property's third homicide since 2023.

Antonio Alvarez-Taylor was 19 when he was arrested; the case was Columbus' fifth homicide of 2025.

Mason Bohm, an engineering freshman, was found dead Monday in Athens. Police say the campus is not at risk.