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Two tractor-trailers and multiple other vehicles were involved in a crash Thursday afternoon that temporarily closed all southbound lanes of Interstate 71 just south of Polaris Parkway. The State Highway Patrol responded around 2:30 p.m. when the crash was reported. Multiple people were injured, including a couple people transported to one or more hospitals, but dispatchers were not able to provide an exact number of people injured or the severity of their injures. Drivers are being advised to avoid the area while cleanup continues, but state patrol said that at least one lane is now open an...

A maintenance worker called 911 at 2:15 p.m. Tuesday after finding Felecia Lane unresponsive inside her residence at the Columbus Park apartments off Alum Creek Drive. First-responders to the apartment in the 2100 block of Winslow Drive pronounced Lane dead at 2:20 p.m., and the circumstances at the scene led police to believe Lane's death was suspicious. Detectives later determined through their investigation that Lane's death was a homicide, marking the 40th homicide committed in Columbus in 2021. Investigators did not initially specify the manner of Lane's death, and an autopsy was cond...

The reopening of 91 sexual assault complaint cases by the State Medical Board is the result of recommendations of a working group appointed in the wake of the Dr. Richard Strauss sexual abuse scandal at Ohio State

A zookeeper injured when attacked by a cheetah Thursday morning at the Columbus Zoo & Aquarium has been evaluated at a hospital and released. Zoo officials said they would not reveal the keeper's identity or the extent of that person's injuries, citing privacy of individual health information under the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).  Zoo team members called the Liberty Township Fire Department, whose medics responded and provided treatment to the keeper on site. The keeper was then transported to a local hospital for further evaluation "out of precaut...

Students at Bishop Hartley High School were taking a test Tuesday morning when a stray gunshot was fired into the building. Columbus police were called around 9:26 a.m. to the school at 1285 Zettler Rd. on the city's East Side. The bullet had pierced the building's wall around 8:49 a.m. and struck a metal beam inside the gymnasium on the northwest corner of the school grounds where about 59 students were taking a test. Two teachers were also in the gymnasium at the time, police said. No one was hit by the gunshot. Columbus' Felony Assault Unit is investigating the shooting and asks that anyon...