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A Columbus woman is dead after the Franklin County Sheriff's Office said she was hit by a car while walking in a crosswalk Wednesday morning in Prairie Township. Helen Powell, 69, was transported by the Prairie Township Fire Department to OhioHealth Grant Medical Center in critical condition after the crash, which occurred around 8 a.m. at the intersection of North Murray Hill Road and U.S. 40/West Broad Street. She died at 12:47 p.m., according to the sheriff's office. Powell was crossing North Murray Hill Road in a marked crosswalk when a driver of a Honda Civic headed east on West Broad S...

Columbus detectives are investigating a West Side woman's death as a homicide after her body was found Sunday morning in an alley in the Hilltop. A passerby had called police after 6 a.m. after seeing the body in the rear of the 500 block of South Terrace Avenue. Patrol officers arrived at 6:18 a.m. and medics with the Columbus Division of Fire pronounced the woman dead at the scene at 6:26 a.m. The woman has been identified by police as 33-year-old Ashley Ann Sweeney. Homicide detectives indicated in a news release that they have not determined a cause of death other than to say it was a ho...

A Columbus man who was arrested Saturday in connection with a body found last month by a kayaker floating inside a storage container in the Alum Creek Reservoir has now also been charged with that man's murder. Detectives with the Delaware County Sheriff's Office served Timothy P. Burney Baldrick, 43, with the arrest warrant on the murder charge on Wednesday inside the Delaware County Jail, where he was being held on the original charges of tampering with evidence and abuse of a corpse. Baldrick is accused of fatally shooting 37-year-old Timothy R. Marcum on June 22, placing his body inside ...

Traffic deaths on Ohio's roadways over the Independence Day weekend fell slightly in 2021 from the year prior, despite more people traveling this year, the state Highway Patrol reports. Sixteen people were killed in 15 fatal traffic crashes between Friday and Monday, according to figures released Tuesday by the Ohio State Highway Patrol. Preliminary investigation data suggests that alcohol and drug impairment was a factor in at least five of those crashes. This year’s traffic fatalities represent a decrease from July 2-5, 2020, when 25 people were killed in 24 fatal crashes. Of those, 1...

In total, ShotSpotter now covers 12 square miles of Columbus across the four neighborhoods, allowing officers to respond to gunfire before or even without 911 being called, said Columbus Police Deputy Chief Richard Bash. "This has enabled officers to locate victims and render aid more quickly, and ultimately helps us make more arrests to get violent offenders off the streets,” Bash said in a prepared statement.   Public Safety Director Ned Pettus Jr. said in his own prepared statement, “ShotSpotter technology has given the community an added weapon in the fight against violent crime....