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Police and security workers in the hospital opened fire on the suspect in the emergency room at Mount Carmel St. Ann’s Hospital in Westerville, Ohio.

GuidesArch CityHome & StyleDiningFeaturesWeddingsLegals City Hall vs. the FOP A decades-old drama boils over as Columbus Mayor Andy Ginther and the powerful union fight over the future of police reform in Columbus. Columbus Monthly No Columbus mayor has more experience working with the local police union than Mike Coleman. Every three years during his 16-year tenure, Coleman and his team bargained over a new labor contract with the Fraternal Order of Police Capital City Lodge No. 9, which represents 28 law enforcement agencies in Central Ohio, including the Columbus Division of Police.  ...

Columbus police say two officers had joined in a search for a stolen car when one of the officers slammed the cruiser into a tree.

Did John Wilkes Booth escape justice? Inside the conspiracies that the actor who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln in 1865 lived under a stolen Englishman's identity in India or as a bartender in Texas for decades after history says he died John Wilkes Booth, born on May 10, 1838, was a prominent stage actor of his day The Civil War was coming to an end when Booth, 26, shot President Abraham Lincoln during a play at Ford's Theatre in Washington, DC on April 14, 1865 The 16th president, who had steered the nation through the brutal conflict over slavery, died the next day. The country was...

The Columbus City Council appeared poised to temporarily shut down the hiring of new city police officers until a new chief is hired and an audit of past hiring practices is completed. "I believe we must take the time to get the next (police recruit) class right," Council President Shannon Hardin said Thursday during a virtual budget meeting. He introduced a budget amendment to divert $2.5 million slated to pay for the new 45-officer police class scheduled for this June into anti-violence programs, medical training for officers now required by city code to offer first aid to use-of-force vic...