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A 14-year-old Massillon boy apparently drowned at a Wayne County campground Sunday while swimming in the same pond where he had been baptized several hours […]

Ceili Doyle The Columbus Dispatch @cadoyle_18 Tuesday Jun 18, 2019 at 2:58 PM Jun 18, 2019 at 3:10 PM Three children died and another was severely burned in a Warsaw barn fire on Tuesday morning, […]

Sheridan Hendrix @sheridan120 Tuesday Jun 18, 2019 at 1:48 PM Jun 18, 2019 at 1:48 PM Three people are dead after a Licking County house fire Tuesday morning. A 911 call came in around 10:19 […]

Michael Lee The Columbus Dispatch @leem386 Tuesday Jun 18, 2019 at 1:42 PM Summer is around the corner, which means sitting back and relaxing with a drink in hand in […]

Molly O’Neill, a freewheeling writer born into a family bent on raising baseball players who would transform herself from a chef into one of America’s […]

The public contribution to a new professional soccer stadium Downtown, a revamped practice facility at Mapfre Stadium and a city recreational park surrounding the current […]

Franklin County hotline fielded more than 16,000 calls last year and more volunteers are needed Wendy Ban was devastated when her mother took her own […]

Several central Ohio medical providers have prolific online and social media presences with thousands of followers all over the world. Looking for a tool to […]

Thank you for joining us this morning. As you know, I am your duly elected representative in the Ohio House, and I wanted to take […]

Dispatch Statehouse reporter Jim Siegel was praised as a tenacious, humble, fair and respected journalist during a ceremony in the Ohio Statehouse atrium honoring his life. But […]

Tim Velde had about half his corn planted before the weather near Hanley Falls, Minnesota, went sour in May. Then he had to switch seed […]

DELAWARE — Officials want to know why dozens of campers were left soaked and stranded after the electronic door locks on a $1 million tornado […]

DELAWARE — Officials want to know why dozens of campers were left soaked and stranded after the electronic door locks on a $1 million tornado […]

DELAWARE — Officials want to know why dozens of campers were left soaked and stranded after the electronic door locks on a $1 million tornado […]

Michael Lee The Columbus Dispatch @leem386 Monday Jun 17, 2019 at 12:56 PM Jun 17, 2019 at 12:56 PM Whether you enjoy sitting back and listening to some patriotic classics or dancing to some of […]

M at Miranova is celebrating its 18th anniversary with an updated look and fresh new menu. The rebooted upscale restaurant will reopen Tuesday on the […]

4-col, 1-line lede hed (22-29 characters); no art for print The Columbus Board of Education could kick off the planning process Tuesday to place a […]

Chris Angel already had a pretty good idea he was a father, and he knew there would eventually be formal responsibilities that come with paternity. But […]

4-col, 1-line lede hed (22-29 characters); no art for print The Columbus Board of Education could kick off the planning process Tuesday to place a […]

More than two years ago, a pair of human legs were found at a South Side waste collection company. Earlier this year, the legs were […]

When kids break the rules, they may get punished, with a timeout, grounding or lost privileges. When they break the law, the consequences can involve […]

Facing about 50 pages of text and maps, including 120 recommendations, few people likely will read all the way through Franklin County’s new “blueprint” for reducing […]

An estimated 12 children younger than 5 years old end up in emergency departments each day for poisonings and chemical burns related to cosmetic products […]

Two prominent leaders in the Jewish community are retiring within a month of each other after years of serving the Columbus region. Jewish Family Services […]

People of all backgrounds, races and ages entered the makeshift prayer room dressed in their finest clothes, put their shoes in the plastic bags provided […]

When Michelle Thomas’ son JJ was diagnosed with leukemia in 2016 at the age of 13, the Dublin mom knew her family had a long […]

Dave Blom’s 17 years as CEO of OhioHealth have been characterized by unprecedented change in the health care industry, for OhioHealth and for Columbus. During […]

A coalition of Appalachian mayors is asking the state to change the way it provides auditing services to smaller municipalities, and to help alleviate the financial burden […]

Cody Smith doesn’t have to worry about how he will feed his cows on his Plain City farm. Instead of buying feed in bulk from […]

A group of about 30 Dispatch readers from across central Ohio and beyond has met with us once a month for most of the past year […]

Alicia Verbic was bartending in northeastern Ohio when a customer who worked in Ohio’s burgeoning medical marijuana industry sparked her interest in joining the trade. […]

A coalition of Appalachian mayors is asking the state to change the way it provides auditing services to smaller municipalities, and to help alleviate the financial burden […]

Libraries want to help children learn. But when children are hungry, that learning can be difficult. “They have to have that nutrition to learn. It’s […]

Jonathan Durishin can count on one hand the number of days off he took between the birth of his first son and going back to […]

High in a backyard silver maple are two wind chimes that, on closer inspection, look not quite right. Each fall, I pledge to take the […]

Three more apartment projects are planned for Franklinton, and two of the developers are asking for permission to build fewer a quarter of the parking […]

Three more apartment projects are planned for Franklinton, and two of the developers are asking for permission to build fewer a quarter of the parking […]

The marching band stopped playing, and a voice came over the loudspeaker. “Nina,” the voice said. “She’s here.” Cheers and roars filled the air near […]

The marching band stopped playing, and a voice came over the loudspeaker. “Nina,” the voice said. “She’s here.” Cheers and roars filled the air near […]

Lawyers suing over the toll of opioids asked a federal judge Friday to allow a structure for all 25,000 municipal and county governments in the […]

The marching band stopped playing and the voice came over the loud speaker. “Nina,” someone said. “She’s here.” Cheers and roars filled the air near […]

Holly Zachariah The Columbus Dispatch @hollyzachariah Saturday Jun 15, 2019 at 8:14 AM Jun 15, 2019 at 8:14 AM Authorities made no arrests for drunken driving at a scheduled OVI checkpoint in Obetz Friday night. […]

An I-670 ramp on the East Side will close this weekend for a month, officials say. I-670 eastbound to Route 62 eastbound into Gahanna will […]

Jerrod Mogan The Columbus Dispatch @JerrodAMogan Friday Jun 14, 2019 at 7:08 PM Jun 14, 2019 at 7:08 PM The entrance ramp from southbound Interstate 270 to Interstate 70 on the East Side remains closed […]

During a closed-door meeting in the basement of Family Missionary Baptist Church, Jonathan Robinson sat across the table from the Columbus police officer who punched […]

LANCASTER — Larry Redd remembers thinking the 199-year-old Mithoff building in downtown Lancaster would never receive the revitalization necessary to keep it operating. “When I […]

Bethany Bruner The Columbus Dispatch Friday Jun 14, 2019 at 1:05 PM Jun 14, 2019 at 1:05 PM A 43-year-old Hilliard man died earlier this week as a result of injuries sustained in a motorcycle crash, Columbus […]

Lynn Bowers saw a mention on TV news about a Mental Health First Aid class that was open to anyone, and she didn’t even wait until […]

Jerrod Mogan The Columbus Dispatch @JerrodAMogan Friday Jun 14, 2019 at 7:08 PM Jun 14, 2019 at 7:08 PM The entrance ramp from southbound Interstate 270 to Interstate 70 on the East Side remains closed […]

A 29th lawsuit has been filed against Mount Carmel Health System and a doctor accused of killing intensive-care patients with high doses of painkillers. The […]