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A crippling pandemic, a racial injustice reckoning, a statehouse scandal and a divisive election. In any other year in Ohio, just one of those would have been the biggest story of the...
Columbus Division of Police/WOSU Originally published on December 24, 2020 6:16 pm Updated 6 p.m. ET Thursday Body camera footage shows a Columbus police officer fatally shooting 47-year-old Andre Maurice Hill less than 10 seconds after finding him in a garage early Tuesday. The officer who shot him is Adam Coy, a 19-year veteran of the department who has since been placed on paid administrative leave. Coy is white; Hill was Black. Police say no weapon was found at the scene. Thursday, Columbus Police Chief Tom Quinlan recommended that Coy be dismissed from the force. Police officials sa...
Who Is Adam Coy? Ohio Cop Shoots Unarmed Black Man Andre Maurice Hill 12/24/20 AT 11:51 AM An officer in Columbus, Ohio, is on paid administrative leave after shooting an unarmed Black man in his own garage. Officer Adam Coy, 44, shot 47-year-old Andre Maurice Hill on Tuesday while responding to a non-emergency call about a man sitting inside a car, turning the ignition on and off, NPR reports. During the first minute of Coy’s bodycam footage, which was released on Wednesday, there is no audio as the officer is seen approaching Hill’s garage. During that time, Hil is seen emerging with...
Pandemic, protests and politics lead Ohio’s top stories of 2020 Associated Press Workers in scrubs and masks walk by the Ohio Theatre in Columbus in August, amid the coronavirus pandemic. Julie Carr Smyth | AP People bundled against the cold stand in a slowly moving line Oct. 30 to cast early votes at the Franklin County Board of Elections in Columbus. Andrew Welsh-Huggins | AP A crippling pandemic, a racial injustice reckoning, a statehouse scandal and a divisive election. In any other year in Ohio, just one of those would have been the biggest story of the year. But 2020 was no ordin...
4:02 In the course of seven years, HB6 sends $1 billion in subsidies to nuclear plants, $140 million to solar farms, and hundreds of millions of dollars to coal plants, paid for by new charges on every Ohio electric user’s bills. All while cutting green energy mandates. The beginning of 2020 had so much on its plate with the COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent economic downturn that it seemed like the controversial energy law had been left in the rear view mirror. Then in July everything changed. "We're here today to announce the arrest of Larry Householder the speaker of the house,...