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Columbus council pitches bill to restrict ICE agents
1+ hour, 49+ min ago (99+ words) Columbus council pitches bill to restrict ICE agents'The Columbus Dispatch Columbus council pitches bill to restrict ICE agents A group of Columbus City Council members is introducing legislation that would impose boundaries on federal immigration officers operating in the city,…...
Ex-Ohio State LB Darron Lee held without bond in murder case | report
2+ day, 4+ hour ago (94+ words) Ex-Ohio State LB Darron Lee held without bond in murder case | report'The Columbus Dispatch Ex-Ohio State LB Darron Lee held without bond in murder case | report Former Ohio State linebacker and first-round NFL draft pick Darron Lee will be held…...
These bills would protect immigrants, limit how ICE operates in RI. How they work.
2+ day, 21+ hour ago (780+ words) The Rhode Island State House spotlight has turned to the lasting images of masked U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement'agents barreling past security at a Rhode Island courthouse, wrongfully targeting a student intern and threatening to break the car windows of a…...
Homicides in Columbus and Franklin County in February 2026
2+ day, 23+ hour ago (509+ words) Columbus homicides'dropped by a considerable number in 2025, with the city'finishing out the year with 84 homicides " a 33% decrease from 2024 and the lowest number of killings in Columbus since 2007. The Dispatch tracks all homicides to get a sense of where violence is…...
Federal charges filed against Tyler Thomas in Hailey Buzbee disappearance
3+ day, 2+ hour ago (721+ words) Newly released federal court records show a Columbus man accused of being involved in an Indiana teenager's disappearance traveled to the state months before to meet the 17-year-old girl. Tyler Thomas, 39, is charged in U.S. District Court in Columbus with sexual…...
Jason Meade murder retrial in Casey Goodson shooting set for April
4+ day, 2+ hour ago (357+ words) The trial of a former Franklin County Sheriff's deputy charged with murder in the 2020 shooting death of Casey Goodson Jr. will move forward in April after a previous delay. Jason Meade, 48, had been scheduled to begin trial in late January…...
Make no mistake. We will stand with Springfield against ICE's insanity. | Letters
6+ day, 7+ hour ago (201+ words) Should ICE descend on Springfield, I, like many Ohioans, am prepared to take to the streets and stand up for the Constitution and for Haitians living and working legally under Temporary Protected Status. We remember the four Kent State University…...
A conversation on overdose deaths with Franklin County coroner
6+ day, 11+ hour ago (11+ words) A conversation on overdose deaths with Franklin County coroner'The Columbus Dispatch...
Former Ohio State LB Darron Lee arrested on first-degree murder charge
6+ day, 20+ hour ago (108+ words) Former Ohio State LB Darron Lee arrested on first-degree murder charge'The Columbus Dispatch A former Ohio State University football player is facing a murder charge after his girlfriend was found dead at a home in Tennessee, according to the Hamilton…...
2 killed when police helicopter crashes in Flagstaff during pursuit
1+ week, 1+ day ago (826+ words) An Arizona Department of Public Safety helicopter crashed in Flagstaff as it assisted police in pursuing an active shooting suspect, killing the civilian pilot and trooper-paramedic on board, authorities said. The crash followed what Flagstaff Police Chief Sean Connolly described…...