The Wexner Center for the Arts showcased Annie Leibovitz’s 1979 portrait of the famous Blues Brothers, Dan Aykroyd and JohnBelushi, in her popular photography exhibit last fall. This fall, theWexner Center will be singing the blues. In its Fall 2013 Preview released Sunday on its website, the WexnerCenter announced the major interdisciplinary exhibition “Blues for Smoke” will be featured in its galleries beginning […]
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Columbus police missing persons detectives are searching for a woman last seen in east Columbus on June 19. According to police, Shaniece M. Briggs, 26, has been reported missing. Briggs is described as a black female who is 5 feet 3 inches tall and weighs 129 pounds. She has black hair and […]
Easton Town Centre is a place you go to shop, eat, be entertained; and now, there are 50,000 additional square feet to do all of that in. Fenlon Square opened Friday. It’s the newest addition to the Easton shops. Aside from all the retail stores, there is an interactive fountain kids can play in to […]
The Horizon Science Academy in Ohio is facing heat from the natural hair community after a copy of a letter to parents that included a ban on afro puffs and ‘small twisted braids’ was posted online. The letter details changes to the dress code for the upcoming school year and includes the line: Afro-puffs and […]
WESTERVILLE, Ohio – A Westerville woman is facing with six counts of endangering children after she allegedly drugged children at a child care center operated out of her home. Tammy Elaine Eppley, 37, is accused of crushing medications and supplements, including melatonin and an antihistamine used for the purpose of causing drowsiness, and mixing it […]
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Relax, Ohio motorists. Gas prices are moving back down. After hovering around $4 a gallon for a couple weeks because of refinery problems in the Great Lakes region, prices at the pump have fallen. The state average for a gallon of regular gas was $3.74 in Monday’s survey from auto club AAA, the […]
COLUMBUS (Ken Hines) — The state attorney general is warning Ohioans about a scam involving rental homes advertised on Craigslist. Atty. General Mike DeWine said scam artists are posting pictures of homes that are for sale, and including offers of cheap rental payments. The perpetrators of the scam demand that interested parties wire money, then […]
NORTH RIDGEVILLE, Ohio (Lu Ann Stoia/Ken Hines) — An Ohio animal rights group is calling for the firing of a humane officer who told a homeowner he was sending a litter of 8-week-old kittens to “kitty heaven” before fatally shooting the animals. Officer Barry Accorti shot the kittens after responding to a call from a […]
Whether it’s a full-fledged derecho, or not, matters little. The Columbus area is in the crosshairs of a massive storm complex with damaging straight-line winds that could exceed 60 mph, the National Weather Service says. Central Ohio faces two threats, several hours apart, from a potentially violent weather system advancing into the Midwest. Isolated thunderstorms […]
Police say two people are dead after a shooting on the west side of Columbus Thursday morning. At about 11:30 a.m. Thursday Columbus police were…
PATASKALA, Ohio – Licking County Sheriff’s officials released the names on Tuesday of those involved in an apparent murder-suicide. According to the sheriff’s office, deputies responded on Monday evening to a call from a family member to check on Kendra Stokes, who had not been seen or heard of for a few days. The family member, […]
ABC 6/FOX 28 started tracking these “Crime Hot Spots” last week, when 7 armed robberies at 6 businesses were reported to police within days of…
