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Hugh Sherman, former longtime dean of the Ohio University College of Business, has been appointed the university's 22nd president, effective June 14.

The two-year-old community crime prevention organization relies on surveillance to track crime Members are also asking for more from city leaders to remedy the problems they experience Most nights, J.R. McMillan can gaze out his front window at Westgate Park across the street and spot the unmistakable flickering orange glow of fire within the shelter house. In his mind, the smoldering flames send an unambiguous message to those who prowl the streets while most others sleep: While the park may be technically closed, other illicit enterprises are open for business. If any doubt remains about w...

A woman is dead after she was dropped off at Mount Carmel East with gunshot wounds that Columbus police say were sustained in a shooting on the East Side. A private vehicle dropped off the shooting victim around 6 p.m. Thursday at the hospital, where the woman later died. Police are not releasing the woman’s identity until her next of kin have been notified.  Sgt. Jim Marable said homicide detectives determined that the shooting occurred on the East Side, but it remains unclear on exactly what street it took place or what time. No further information was immediately available.

The deaths of two men in separate shootings Saturday on the Northeast Side of Columbus brings the city to 74 homicides this year, outpacing last year's record year by more than two months. In 2020, Columbus' deadliest year on record with 174 homicides, it wasn't until July 26th that the 74th homicide was recorded. Around 10 p.m. Saturday, a man died from a gunshot wound he had sustained in a shooting reported around 3:25 p.m. in the Whispering Oaks apartments near Fenton Street. Columbus police officers who responded to that shooting in the 4200 block of Dresden Street found Elliot Raspberry...

A 28-year-old man has been arrested on a charge of murder in the May 1 shooting death of another man on the Northeast Side. Columbus police had issued an arrest warrant Wednesday for Isiaha Sanders of the Northeast Side in connection with the fatal shooting of 24-year-old Terrance Jewell. Sanders was taken into custody Thursday, police said. Jewell was shot around 9:30 p.m. May 1 while walking in the parking lot of an apartment complex on the 4600 block of Glen Grove Lane near Cleveland Avenue, police said. Medics transported Jewell to the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, where...