1+ hour, 29+ min ago  (25+ words) The Columbus Dispatch Bodycam footage shows moment leading up to Columbus police friendly fire...

1+ hour, 40+ min ago  (1055+ words) Columbus Division of Police has locked out four agencies that have current agreements with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement from its Flock network of license-plate readers after The Dispatch raised questions about the city's sharing agreement. As of July 15, the city…...

4+ hour, 29+ min ago  (226+ words) More than 50 suspected illegal slot machines were seized or disabled July 16 after state investigators executed search warrants at a central Ohio business and a private residence authorities say are tied to an illegal gambling investigation. The Ohio Casino Control Commission…...

11+ hour, 57+ min ago  (545+ words) Columbus police say U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement never accessed data from the city's Flock license-plate camera system, but an arm of the federal agency had a pilot program to directly access the system for two months in 2025. In an audit…...

4+ day, 12+ hour ago  (157+ words) Newly filed court documents reveal a Columbus father accused in the fatal shooting of his 21-month-old son told investigators he accidentally left a gun safe open moments before the child shot himself. Deshawn Levelle Butler, 22, was charged July 12 with child…...

3+ day, 2+ hour ago  (15+ words) The Columbus Dispatch Columbus hearing over Flock camera searches...

3+ day, 3+ hour ago  (332+ words) Columbus City Councilmember Emmanuel Remy will hold a hearing on Aug. 10 on the city's Flock Safety license plate reading cameras after a police audit found thousands of possibly immigration enforcement-related searches of city data. Remy made the announcement on July…...

3+ day, 5+ hour ago  (188+ words) Columbus police have identified a motorcyclist who died after crashing into an SUV on Interstate 70 on the East Side. Miquaith Andrick, 23, died from injuries he sustained in the crash, which happened around 6:45 a.m. July on I-70 West over Fairwood Avenue, according to…...

3+ day, 10+ hour ago  (107+ words) One person is dead after a shooting in southeast Columbus late on July 13, according to dispatchers. Officers were dispatched to the 2700 block of Brandy Drive, near Refugee and Noe Bixby roads, at 11:42 p.m. after a woman called 911 to report a shooting....

3+ day, 11+ hour ago  (222+ words) City leaders and law enforcement officials are the highest paid public employees in the city of Grandview Heights, public records obtained by The Dispatch show. Finance Director Megan Miller was the city's top paid employee, earning a total of $184,115 in…...