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Columbus and protester settle federal civil lawsuit over pepper spraying for $10,000 Jim Wilhelm, The Columbus Dispatch © Joshua A. Bickel/Dispatch Columbus Division of Police officers use pepper spray to disperse protesters near City Hall during nationwide protests following the death of George Floyd, a black man in Minneapolis who died while in police custody, on May 29. The City of Columbus has agreed to pay $10,000 to settle a federal civil lawsuit filed by Ellen Abdur-Rahim, a protester pepper-sprayed by a Columbus police officer during a 2017 political demonstration. ...

One dead after shooting behind apartment house near Ohio State University Bethany Bruner, The Columbus Dispatch © Edward Sutelan/Dispatch Columbus Division of Police vehicle logo. One person is dead after a shooting early Tuesday morning in a parking lot area behind an apartment house near the Ohio State University campus and Greek fraternities.  Columbus police were called at 3:38 a.m. on a report of a shooting in the rear of an apartment house in the 200 block of East 15th Avenue near North 4th Street.  The area is about four blocks from Ohio State's campus and just ea...

Two people fatally shot Sunday morning, bringing Columbus homicide total to 60 for 2021 The Columbus Dispatch © Edward Sutelan/Dispatch Columbus Division of Police vehicle logo. Two people were fatally shot in separate incidents Sunday morning in Columbus, pushing the total homicides committed in the city to 60 in 2021. An unidentified male died after being found shot inside a vehicle early Sunday morning in South Linden. Columbus police homicide detectives say patrol officers responding at 1:48 a.m. to a report of a shooting found the male inside a vehicle in an alley on ...