Crime

With just two days left, Columbus has seen 173 homicides in 2020. Columbus Police Deputy Chief Michael Woods says this is the most homicides the city has…

Columbus Police say a 12-year-old girl in Reynoldsburg died when she was shot after a gun discharged in a neighbor's apartment.Officers arrived at an…

In April the justices said future split verdicts in criminal trials are unconstitutional. Now the question is what about such verdicts in the past — potentially several thousand of them.

Caseworkers in 12 counties around Ohio are trying to confront a persistent problem: Data shows a majority of kids who wind up in the justice system face…

Columbus has set a new record for number of yearly homicides. Friday marked the city's 144th homicide so far in 2020.That breaks the city’s previous…

Columbus Police are investigating the stabbing deaths of two people Monday morning on the East Side, after reporting at least three shooting around the…

A judge has sentenced a California man to a year and a day in prison for threatening a shooting at Ohio State University in 2018.The government says…

An 18-year-old faces murder charges for the fatal shooting of an Ohio State University student over the weekend.Police say Kintie Mitchell Jr. killed…

A Franklin County grand jury on Friday returned indictments in five murders going back to July. Four of the five shootings happened within a 10-day period…

Ohio State University officials say three students were slashed with a box cutter near the Columbus campus early Wednesday morning.Police say the incident…