Marysville Schools says a parent attacked a transportation aide during a student drop-off, the district filed a police report and the aide is on leave.

The Creekside Blues & Jazz Festival returns to Gahanna June 19–21 with national headliners, family programming and food vendors across three stages.

City attorneys secured a court order Thursday to board up Cartel Palace at 1127 N. High St., citing alleged underage tobacco sales, unpaid fines and links to Short North shootings.

Clintonville mainstay Gatto's Pizza is opening a second outpost inside Hoof Hearted Brewing's Short North taproom, pairing slices with local beer.

Statehouse rallies, a McCoy Park picnic protest and a Bicentennial Park banner event mark May Day in Columbus as organizers press a 'Workers Over Billionaires' agenda amid a fight over parkland and NWSL funding.

Fyda Freightliner appears to have paid $5.69M for a 32,940‑sqft Obetz warehouse at 3960 Groveport Rd that could become an expanded truck sales and service hub near Rickenbacker.

The Downtown Commission voted to deny a request to mount three aluminum crosses on the Center for Christian Virtue’s Capitol Square roof. The decision halts the plan across from the Statehouse.

Columbus will replace more than 50,000 lead and galvanized service lines at no direct cost to homeowners during scheduled street projects.

A man was critically wounded in a shooting on the 1500 block of Burstock Road in southeast Columbus. Police say the case is under investigation.

A Commonwealth Fund study finds Black and Hispanic Ohioans face much higher avoidable‑death rates, uninsured rates and cost‑related care gaps than other groups.

A Columbus police officer was shot in the Linden neighborhood Wednesday evening, prompting a heavy police response and street closures near 14th and Hamilton.

A Hocking Hills maintenance worker survived a rare internal decapitation while clearing trees, surgeons reattached his skull to his spine and he is walking again.

Columbus police say a 31‑year‑old allegedly pulled an axe after filling a cup at a store fountain on E. Dublin Granville Road and was arrested on aggravated‑robbery charges.