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Police: Domestic violence accounts for about 10% of Columbus homicides Columbus has seen a total of 114 homicides this year. At this time last year, there were 70. Author: Lacey Crisp Updated: 7:27 PM EDT July 21, 2021 COLUMBUS, Ohio — Columbus police said while they dont know the motive in all cases, but about 10% of homicide cases this year are domestic violence-related. Tuesday night, police said William Roberts shot and killed his 1-year-old daughter in nor...

Potential Obstruction and Coverup: Top Officials’ State-Issued Phones Mysteriously ‘Wiped’ of Data in Flint Water Crisis Probe Colin Kalmbacher © Provided by Law & Crime Rick Snyder via SAUL LOEB_AFP_Getty Images Numerous potentially key pieces of evidence in the ongoing Flint water crisis investigation that should have been retained “indefinitely” were deleted by government actors in the state of Michigan.  That’s according to a bombshell Wednesday report in The...

Should Portland permanently ban fireworks? Hardesty says yes Portland had banned the usage and selling of fireworks prior to the Fourth of July holiday. Fire officials said it seems to have had an impact. Author: Devon Haskins Updated: 8:10 PM PDT July 9, 2021 Portland had banned the usage and selling of fireworks prior to the Fourth of July holiday. Fire officials said it seems to have had an impact. Between June 23 and July 6, what fire officials call "firewor...

Staff Solutions to one of the most challenging problems facing our community will the subject of the first in a new series of community discussions facilitated by The Columbus Dispatch.  Opinion and Engagement Editor Amelia Robinson will host The Dispatch presents Columbus Conversations: "Bridging the Divide Between Police and the People" at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, July 8.  The free town-hall event will stream live on Dispatch.com and the newspapers Facebook page and YouTube channel. It...

The commander of the city’s property crime unit says the best way detectives can solve these crimes is when people report them with detailed information.

Apple has not yet patched a WebKit vulnerability present in iOS and macOS despite a fix for the flaw being available for weeks.

Apple has not yet patched a WebKit vulnerability present in iOS and macOS despite a fix for the flaw being available for weeks. Credit: WebKit

What you need to know A WebKit exploit exists that could allow the execution of malicious code on a Mac, iPhone, and iPad. Researchers told Apple how to fix the issue three weeks ago, but it still hasnt been done. A security exploit that could allow malicious code to be run on Macs, iPhones, and iPads hasnt been fixed despite someone telling Apple how to do so three weeks ago. The flaw relates to WebKit across macOS, iOS, and iPadOS. Webkit is what powers Safari and a number of similar web brow...

Failure to check the object type provides an opportunity for an attacker to create a type confusion error capable of crashing Safari. Developing a more serious exploit that enables arbitrary code execution would require additional work to create exploit primitives that bypass WebKit defenses like Pointer Authentication Codes (cryptographic signatures for pointers on Arm-compatible devices). Becker nonetheless suggests this malware defense can be overcome by attackers, pointing to recent Project...

The Republican-controlled Senate and Assembly both adjourn sessions without debate or votes.