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SPRINGFIELD, Ohio (WCMH) -- Schools and Downtown streets were abruptly closed in Springfield ON Monday morning, with Gov. Mike DeWine saying it was in response to suspicious packages found at each. Springfield City Schools said the closure was due to an "abundance of caution" and directed families to consult official school messages sent by text, [...]

The frigid Columbus weather streak of temperatures not rising about freezing will finally come to an end.

DUBLIN, Ohio (WCMH) -- Dublin zoning officials and neighboring residents say they support plans for a new shopping area in the city that would also include dining, office space and a central public square. Dublin's planning and zoning commission recommended approval on Feb. 5 of a preliminary development plan for "Monterey Square," a project that [...]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – A national daycare franchise is doubling its central Ohio presence by opening four new locations. The Learning Experience is preparing to launch centers in Pickerington, Westerville, Lewis Center and northeast Columbus. Each location will span about 10,000 square feet and include a 5,000-square-foot outdoor playground. The centers will employ about 30 [...]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- AI and GLPs. Mr. Rogers. Food delivery wars. And, weirdly … butts. These topics dominated the advertising inventory for television’s biggest night. Each year, I watch the Super Bowl with a good friend of mine who is a local advertising executive (identity protected) and we rank the ads in terms of effectiveness, quality and [...]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- The second murder trial of a former Franklin County sheriff's deputy who fatally shot a Black man six times is moving toward jury selection. There was a brief Monday morning status conference meeting in the trial of Jason Meade and two preliminary court dates were scheduled for April. Meade, who left [...]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- An Ohio legislator proposed withholding state funding for over 300 school districts involved in legal action against the state's school voucher program. Rep. Jamie Callender (R-Concord) introduced House Bill 671 to combat school districts involved in a years-long legal battle over the state's taxpayer-funded school voucher system, EdChoice. If passed, the [...]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – Two women are suing Ohio United Methodist Church, alleging it hired a former cult member as its music director and failed to act on warnings that he was sexually abusing a minor.  The lawsuit was filed on Jan. 29 by Newsome Law, P.A. and Spangenberg Shibley & Liber LLP on behalf [...]

A new report from Canada Sports Betting found that Ohio has a 1.13% chance of being abducted by aliens, with over 4,000 abduction reports since 2019. The report ranked Ohio as 21st in the nation for alien abduction odds, with a reported alien abduction for every 11,300 residents. The report noted that the ranking does not reflect the validity of abduction stories, but instead tracks the frequency of reports. Ohio has several connections to UFO history, including the Air Force's investigation of Unidentified Flying Objects under "Project Blue Book" from 1947 to 1969 at Wright Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- The nation's largest plastic surgeons group is recommending that gender-transition surgeries be delayed until patients turn 19, a shift that comes as Ohio's ban on gender-transition care remains under review by the state Supreme Court. The American Society of Plastic Surgeons announced on Feb. 3 that it found "insufficient evidence" that [...]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- The third day of the Winter Olympics has arrived and Team USA is hoping to add to its medal tally. Of the five medal events contested Monday is the 1000 meters in women's speedskating, headlined by USA's Erin Jackson and Brittany Bowe. Chinese-American Eileen Gu will also go for her first [...]

GROVE CITY, Ohio (WCMH) – Dozens of residents in a Grove City mobile home community said they’ve been living without reliable water for two weeks, and they’re calling the conditions unsafe. Residents at Carter’s Mobile Home Community on Harrisburg Pike said the problem started after last month’s snowstorm. They said about 40 homes have been [...]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- One local group found a way to turn Super Bowl Sunday into something much bigger than football. The Singing Buckeyes, a Columbus male a cappella group, brought food, music, and a big donation to men staying at Faith Mission Homeless Shelter. "For people who are staying in a shelter, having something [...]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- After a serious car crash, one Ohio woman’s insurance claim quickly turned into a nightmare. Her car seemingly disappeared and a repair shop tried to charge thousands of dollars for work that was never done. Our Better Call 4 Investigation got her money back, but not her time; what should have [...]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- A new report is looking at the connections between mental health and the juvenile justice system.   Health Policy Institute of Ohio Senior Policy Analyst Jacob Santiago shared that one of the key findings is that juvenile detention is harmful for a young person's mental health. Providing adequate resources could change the [...]

Will Elon Musk really launch a million data centers into orbit, and why is McDonald's so worried about you using "McNuggets" as your password? This week's tech roundtable takes on wild new frontiers and everyday security headaches with insight and a bit of irreverence.

• More schools are banning phones so students can focus. Ohio's results show it's not that simple
• After Australia, Which Countries Could Be Next to Ban Social Media for Children
• EU says TikTok must disable 'addictive' features like infinite scroll, fix its recommendation engine
• Anthropic and OpenAI release dueling AI models on the same day in an escalating rivalry
• Sam Altman says Anthropic's Super Bowl spot is 'dishonest' about ChatGPT ads, but he agrees it's funny
• Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 uncovers 500 zero-day flaws in open-source code
• Alphabet reports Q4 2025 revenue of $113.8 billion
• Amazon's blowout $200 billion AI spending plan stuns Wall Street
• A New Gilded Age: Big Tech goes on a $600 billion AI spending splurge
• Hidden Cameras in Chinese Hotels Are Livestreaming Guests To Thousands of Telegram Subscribers
• AI-generated ads hit the Super Bowl
• SpaceX acquires xAI, plans to launch a massive satellite constellation to power it
• Russia suspected of intercepting EU satellites
• Notepad++ hijacked by state-sponsored actors
• New York Wants to Ctrl+Alt+Delete Your 3D Printer
• Western Digital Plots a Path To 140 TB Hard Drives Using Vertical Lasers and 14-Platter Designs
• A Crisis comes to Wordle: Reusing old words
• The Wayback Machine debuts a new plug-in designed to fix the internet's broken links problem
• Project Hail Mary is getting its own LEGO set
• Dave Farber

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COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- After a busy opening weekend at the Milan Cortina Olympics, we have reached the first weekday of competition on NBC4. Many Team USA stars will be in action on Monday, including one of the nation's flagbearers at Friday's opening ceremony who is competing for a medal. Figure skating will resume in [...]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — A man accused of opening fire outside of a Columbus restaurant was found guilty in federal court on all charges. According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Ohio, Abel Velasquez-Avedeco, was found guilty of illegally possessing a firearm and drug possession with the intent to distribute cocaine [...]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Ten years have passed since a Nationwide Children’s Hospital employee was stabbed to death and the Columbus Division of Police is still at an impasse in its investigation. On Feb. 12, 2016, Maribeth Quinn was found dead in her Westerville apartment on Carmichael Street. Quinn was discovered with several severe stab [...]