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The Franklin County Municipal Court Clerk's Office has installed interactive kiosks at the Franklin County James A. Karnes Correctional Center to allow families and defendants to pay a bond remotely via a live video feed.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – Attorneys are expected to continue calling witnesses on Monday in the murder trial of Connor Grubb, the police officer who fatally shot Ta’Kiya Young in a Kroger parking lot in 2023.  Grubb, 31, is charged with four counts of murder, four counts of felonious assault and two counts of involuntary manslaughter [...]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- Ohio Rep. Josh Williams (R-Sylvania) urged lawmakers this month to support three bills that would give employers tax credits for offering bonuses tied to childbirth, marriage and fertility treatment coverage -- proposals that drew questions over how much they would cost the state. Williams presented sponsor testimony on Nov. 5 before [...]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- Grocery costs are rising in the U.S., and Ohioans may have to pay a little more this Thanksgiving. According to the Consumer Price Index's most recent data, food costs are 3% higher than they were last year. Although estimates of how much Thanksgiving costs have increased vary dramatically by study, most [...]

Meta's Ray-Ban Display glasses steal the spotlight on a Rome trip, triggering debates about privacy, wearable tech etiquette, and the uncomfortable power of recording the world through your eyewear. Plus, gadgets scanning your urine, bots shaping your inbox, and the future of Disney+!

• Counting Renaissance butts in Rome with the Meta Ray-Ban Display
• Jury says Apple owes Masimo $634M for patent infringement
• Google ordered to pay $665 million for anticompetitive practices in Germany
• Disney and YouTube TV reach deal to end blackout
• The future of Disney Plus could involve AI-generated videos
• X is finally rolling out Chat, its DM replacement with encryption and video calling
• Tim Cook could step down as Apple CEO 'as soon as next year'
• iPhone Pocket revealed in hands-on videos of new Apple accessory
• AMD continues to chip away at Intel's X86 market share — company now sells over 25% of all x86 chips and powers 33% of all desktop systems
• Google DeepMind is using Gemini to train agents inside Goat Simulator 3
• George Lucas' narrative art museum opens next year in LA
• Spotify's new audiobook recap feature uses AI to remind you of the story so far
• PNG is back!
• 3 SeatGuru alternatives for finding the best airline seats
• What Are We Going to Do With 300 Billion Pennies?
• Withings Beamo

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COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- Thanksgiving is less than two weeks away, and many central Ohio families are feeling the pinch of higher food prices.  Places like Aldi, Walmart and Target are advertising some of the lowest prices on Thanksgiving staples, but even with those deals, many families say this holiday is still stretching their budget [...]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- A report from the Health Policy Institute of Ohio highlighted certain health disparities between Ohioans based on race. The report shows the challenges for Black Ohioans and infant mortality. Carrie Almasi, director of assessment and planning at the Health Policy Institute, said certain groups of Ohioans face barriers that create opportunity [...]

The next couple of nights, you might catch a glimpse of the Leonid meteors. However, the weather this year will not be cooperative when the annual meteor shower peaks early Tuesday between midnight and dawn, Nov. 17.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- One person is dead after a reported shooting in the Eastmoor section of east Columbus Sunday afternoon. According to a police dispatcher, officers responded to the 2900 block of East Moreland Drive at approximately 4:35 p.m. for a report of a shooting. One victim, suffering from gunshot wounds, was taken to [...]

Microsoft this week pushed security updates to fix more than 60 vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and supported software, including at least one zero-day bug that is already being exploited. Microsoft also fixed a glitch that prevented some Windows 10 users from taking advantage of an extra year of security updates, which is nice because the zero-day flaw and other critical weaknesses patched today affect all versions of Windows, including Windows 10.

Affected products this month include the Windows OS, Office, SharePoint, SQL Server, Visual Studio, GitHub Copilot, and Azure Monitor Agent. The zero-day threat concerns a memory corruption bug deep in the Windows innards called CVE-2025-62215. Despite the flaw’s zero-day status, Microsoft has assigned it an “important” rating rather than critical, because exploiting it requires an attacker to already have access to the target’s device.

“These types of vulnerabilities are often exploited as part of a more complex attack chain,” said Johannes Ullrich, dean of research for the SANS Technology Institute. “However, exploiting this specific vulnerability is likely to be relatively straightforward, given the existence of prior similar vulnerabilities.”

Ben McCarthy, lead cybersecurity engineer at Immersive, called attention to CVE-2025-60274, a critical weakness in a core Windows graphic component (GDI+) that is used by a massive number of applications, including Microsoft Office, web servers processing images, and countless third-party applications.

“The patch for this should be an organization’s highest priority,” McCarthy said. “While Microsoft assesses this as ‘Exploitation Less Likely,’ a 9.8-rated flaw in a ubiquitous library like GDI+ is a critical risk.”

Microsoft patched a critical bug in Office — CVE-2025-62199 — that can lead to remote code execution on a Windows system. Alex Vovk, CEO and co-founder of Action1, said this Office flaw is a high priority because it is low complexity, needs no privileges, and can be exploited just by viewing a booby-trapped message in the Preview Pane.

Many of the more concerning bugs addressed by Microsoft this month affect Windows 10, an operating system that Microsoft officially ceased supporting with patches last month. As that deadline rolled around, however, Microsoft began offering Windows 10 users an extra year of free updates, so long as they register their PC to an active Microsoft account.

Judging from the comments on last month’s Patch Tuesday post, that registration worked for a lot of Windows 10 users, but some readers reported the option for an extra year of updates was never offered. Nick Carroll, cyber incident response manager at Nightwing, notes that Microsoft has recently released an out-of-band update to address issues when trying to enroll in the Windows 10 Consumer Extended Security Update program.

“If you plan to participate in the program, make sure you update and install KB5071959 to address the enrollment issues,” Carroll said. “After that is installed, users should be able to install other updates such as today’s KB5068781 which is the latest update to Windows 10.”

Chris Goettl at Ivanti notes that in addition to Microsoft updates today, third-party updates from Adobe and Mozilla have already been released. Also, an update for Google Chrome is expected soon, which means Edge will also be in need of its own update.

The SANS Internet Storm Center has a clickable breakdown of each individual fix from Microsoft, indexed by severity and CVSS score. Enterprise Windows admins involved in testing patches before rolling them out should keep an eye on askwoody.com, which often has the skinny on any updates gone awry.

As always, please don’t neglect to back up your data (if not your entire system) at regular intervals, and feel free to sound off in the comments if you experience problems installing any of these fixes.

[Author’s note: This post was intended to appear on the homepage on Tuesday, Nov. 11. I’m still not sure how it happened, but somehow this story failed to publish that day. My apologies for the oversight.]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- It's getting down to the wire as the high school football season has mere weeks left until state champions are crowned. On Sunday, the Ohio High School Athletic Association announced this week’s regional finals, which will be played this Friday, Nov. 21, starting at 7 p.m., with the games moving to [...]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – This week on the Sunday Briefing: “It was completely unnecessary,” Sen. Jon Husted (R-Ohio) said. “I think they let the American people down, and there will be consequences from that,” Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-Ohio 3rd District) Hear from Ohio lawmakers who remain divided on the deal to fund the government and [...]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- Fresh off of a 48-10 win over UCLA, Ohio State is once again the No. 1 team in college football. Ohio State (10-0, 7-0) was named the top-ranked team in the USA Today coaches poll, continuing its first-place streak. The ranking follows a convincing win under the lights at Ohio Stadium [...]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — A man who shot and killed a friend who reportedly would not leave his home has been issued a life sentence in prison. According to the Franklin County Prosecutor’s Office, 45-year-old Robert Burnett was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole after 22 years in the death of [...]

FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP, Ohio (WCMH) -- One person was shot overnight in Franklin Township, discovered after a suspect turned himself into Columbus Police. According to Columbus Police, a suspect came to police headquarters and called 911 multiple times shortly before 3:30 a.m. Sunday. In one call, he mentioned using a firearm at a home in the [...]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- One person is dead after a rollover crash in east Columbus early Sunday morning. Columbus Police said officers responded to the intersection of Tussing Road and Americana Parkway at 2:18 a.m. Sunday on reports of a car accident. Police said an adult was driving a 2011 Jeep Wrangler and inexplicably drove [...]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- A former pastor at a Columbus church could spend up to the next 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to rape charges. George Bell, 73, pleaded guilty last week to two counts of first-degree felony rape. In exchange for his guilty plea, two additional rape charges as well as two [...]