Columbus news

• Rick Santorum: Students should learn CPR, not seek gun laws

  25-03-2018 23:33
  
  Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum said Sunday that students who have rallied for gun control should instead learn CPR or find their own way to prevent a school shooting."How about kids instead of looking to someone else to solve their problem, do something about maybe taking CPR classes or trying to deal with situations that when there is a violent shooter that you can actually respond to that," the Republican said on CNN's "State of the Union."The 2012 and 2016 presidential candidate said
  
  Read more

• Russian shopping mall fire kills 64; no alarms reported

  25-03-2018 23:28
  
  With the fire alarms silent and staff reportedly nowhere to be seen, a fire at a shopping mall packed with children and their parents on the first weekend of the school recess killed 64 people in Russia's Siberia.The fire at the Winter Cherry mall in Kemerovo, a city about 3,000 kilometers (1,900 miles) east of Moscow, was extinguished by Monday morning after burning through the night. Firefighters were still recovering bodies as parts of the buildings were still smoldering. Some of the dead wer
  
  Read more

• Villanova returns to Final 4 with 71-59 win over Texas Tech

  25-03-2018 22:47
  
  BOSTON — Villanova is going back to the Final Four, and those underdogs should get ready for the top-seeded Wildcats.Eric Paschall had 12 points and 14 rebounds, and the 2016 national champions beat Texas Tech 71-59 in a cold-shooting East regional championship on Sunday to reach the Final Four for the second time in three years.Villanova (34-4) will play the winner of the Midwest final between top-seeded Kansas and No. 2 seed Duke. Sunday's winners will join 11th-seeded Loyola-Chicago and
  
  Read more

• Nova back in Final Four for run at another title

  25-03-2018 22:47
  
  Villanova is headed back to the Final Four.The Wildcats will have a chance at their second national championship in three seasons, courtesy of a 71-59 win over Texas Tech in Sunday's East regional final.They will play the winner of Kansas and Duke in the Final Four in San Antonio.Jalen Brunson led the Wildcats (34-4) with 15 points. Eric Paschall finished with 12 points and a career-high 14 rebounds.Donte DiVincenzo and Mikal Bridges each added 12 points.Villanova came into the game with 44 3-po
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• OSU and NFL quarterback now an Ohio deputy sheriff

  25-03-2018 22:22
  
  PORT CLINTON, Ohio — The redshirt freshman quarterback who helped lead Ohio State University to victory in the 2015 national championship game is getting fitted for a uniform of an entirely different kind.The Port Clinton News-Herald reports Cardale Jones was made an honorary Ottawa County sheriff's deputy last summer. Jones spoke at a father-son church banquet in Ottawa County on Friday.Sheriff Steve Levorchick says he and Jones, a Cleveland native, have become good friends and that he lo
  
  Read more

• Jets sign former Buckeye and Redskin WR Terrelle Pryor

  25-03-2018 21:58
  
  NEW YORK — ​Terrelle Pryor is hoping for a Big-Apple bounce-back with the Jets.The former Washington wide receiver signed with New York after one disappointing season with the Redskins.The Jets announced the signing Sunday. Terms of the deal, which were agreed to on Thursday night, were not immediately known.Pryor had free agent visits with both New York and Seattle, and also had interest from Cleveland, before he agreed to sign with the Jets."I'm so happy to be a part of this organi
  
  Read more

• Forecast: Spring weather returns Monday

  25-03-2018 21:15
  This Evening: A pleasant evening with fair skies, but breezy. E wind around 15 mph; Gusts 20+ mph.
  Tonight: Mostly clear and breezy. Low 30. E wind around 10-15 mph.
  Monday: Mostly sunny to start then increasing clouds throughout the day, breezy and milder. High 54. SE wind 10-15 mph; Gusts up to 25 mph.
  Tuesday: Showers likely. High 58. S wind around 15 mph.Weather Resources: Interactive Radar | Weather Warnings | Live Radar | School closings, delaysWeather Discussion: A pleasant Sunday evening
  
  Read more

• 2 lawyers not joining Trump legal team after all

  25-03-2018 20:45
  
  PALM BEACH, Fla. — President Donald Trump will not be adding two new lawyers to the legal team defending him in the special counsel's Russia investigation after all, one of the president's attorneys said Sunday.Trump attorney Jay Sekulow said in a statement that Washington lawyers Joseph diGenova and Victoria Toensing have conflicts that won't allow them to represent the president regarding special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation. Sekulow had announced diGenova's appointment last we
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Incredible march shots from across the USA

  25-03-2018 20:06
  Daizhon Cox,14, from South High School in Columbus participates in a protest at the Ohio Statehouse during the March For Our Lives rally for gun control on Saturday,. Incredible march shots from across the USA Daizhon Cox,14, from South High School in Columbus participates in a protest at the Ohio Statehouse during the March For Our Lives rally for gun control on Saturday,.
  
  Read more

• Body found in garbage can ID'd as missing Ohio woman

  25-03-2018 18:10
  
  CLEVELAND — Authorities say the body of a woman found in a garbage can at an abandoned house in Cleveland is a 31-year-old woman reported missing earlier this month.Cleveland.com reports the Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner's office has identified the woman as Miriam Johnson, of Cleveland Heights. She was reported missing in Cleveland Heights by her mother on March 6.A cause of death hasn't been determined. No arrests have been made.Johnson's body was found Thursday on Cleveland's east sid
  
  Read more

• Crew SC Continues Winning Streak with 3-1 Victory Over DC United

  25-03-2018 16:08
  Did you know that your Columbus Crew SC were unbeaten in 13 regular-season matches going into Saturday nights game against DC United? Well, that unbeaten streak is now at 14 as Crew SC brushed their old rivals aside with a convincing 3-1 victory in front of the hundreds of fans that bothered to come out […]
  
  Read more

• Obama, in Japan, says NKorea's isolation means less leverage

  25-03-2018 15:40
  
  TOKYO — Former President Barack Obama said Sunday that negotiations with North Korea on its nuclear weapons program are difficult, partly because the country's isolation minimizes possible leverage, such as trade and travel sanctions against Pyongyang."North Korea is an example of a country that is so far out of the international norms and so disconnected with the rest of the world," Obama told a packed hall in Tokyo.He stressed that the effort to get North Korea to give up nuclear weapons
  
  Read more

• On Palm Sunday, pope urges youth to raise their voices

  25-03-2018 15:30
  
  VATICAN CITY— Pope Francis on Palm Sunday urged young people not to be silent and let their voices be heard, even in the face of corrupt or silent elders.The pope's message comes on the heels of a meeting of young Catholics who told the Vatican they want a more transparent and authentic church, and a day after hundreds of thousands marched in youth-led rallies across the United States to demand greater gun control."The temptation to silence young people has always existed," Francis said. "
  
  Read more

• Suds & salutations: Down one with your downward dog

  25-03-2018 15:27
  Brandi Parcell enjoys a beer during a break in a yoga session Saturday, March 10, 2018, at Earnest Brew Works in Toledo. Stephanie Spence enjoys a beer during a break in a yoga session Saturday, March 10, 2018, at Earnest Brew Works in Toledo.
  
  Read more

• Council Health & Human Services: Social Services Grant Funding Part 2

  25-03-2018 14:22 via youtube.com
  
  
  View video

• Police search for suspects in Dawghouse Bar shooting

  25-03-2018 13:49
  COLUMBUS- Columbus police are looking for suspects in a shooting that left one man dead on the south side of Columbus.On December 20, 2017, police responded to a shooting at the Dawghouse Bar in the 2000 block of Lockbourne Road.When officers arrived,they found Gary Copling near a yard in the 2000 block of Studer Avenue. Copling was transported to Grant Medical where he later died.Investigators say Gary Copling and another man met with another group of men in the parking lot of the Dawghouse Bar
  
  Read more

• Film shows black women as hidden figures in pro wrestling

  25-03-2018 10:56
  Ramona Isbell talks about her days as a professional wrestler in the 1960s and 1970s beside a framed collage of mementos including publicity photos and a jacket, on Monday, March 19, 2018, in Columbus, Ohio. A new documentary tells the story of black women professional wrestlers in the 1950s and 1960s, many of them from Columbus.
  
  Read more

• Thousands gather in Columbus for March for Our Lives rally

  25-03-2018 06:33
  Veteran activists and first-time protesters were among the thousands of people who gathered near Downtown on Saturday to take part in the Columbus March for Our Lives rally. People of all ages congregated just west of COSI to listen to speakers promoting school safety and gun control.
  
  Read more

• Michigan tops Florida State, back in Final Four

  25-03-2018 05:18
  
  Mighty Michigan is rolling all the way back to the Final Four.Charles Matthews scored 17 points and Michigan earned its first Final Four berth since 2013 with a 58-54 victory over Florida State on Saturday night in the West Region final.Moe Wagner scored 12 points as the Wolverines (32-7) earned their 13th consecutive victory by persevering through a defense-dominated second half and holding off a late charge from the Seminoles, who had already knocked off three higher-seeded teams in the NCAA T
  
  Read more

• Blues stop Blue Jackets' 10-game winning streak with 2-1 win

  25-03-2018 04:27
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Jake Allen made 33 saves, Alexander Steen scored on St. Louis' first shot of the game, and the Blues stopped the Columbus Blue Jackets' 10-game winning streak with a 2-1 victory Saturday night.Vladimir Tarasenko also scored for St. Louis, which has won five in row. The Blues have also won four straight games on the road and earned points in four of their last five away from home.The win was Allen's 26th of the season and seventh in his last eight games. Allen leads th
  
  Read more

• Lights go dark for Earth Hour to highlight climate change

  25-03-2018 04:17
  
  LONDON (AP) — In Paris, the Eiffel Tower went dark. In London, a kaleidoscope of famous sites switched off their lights — Tower Bridge, Big Ben, Piccadilly Circus, the London Eye.That scene was repeated over and over across the world on Saturday night: at Sydney's Opera House; at New Delhi's great arch; at Kuala Lumpur's Petronas Towers; at Edinburgh Castle in Scotland; at Brandenburg Gate in Berlin; at St. Basil's Cathedral in Moscow; at the Empire State Building in New York.It last
  
  Read more

• Ramblin' On Loyola-Chicago in Final Four

  25-03-2018 01:35
  
  ATLANTA (AP) — Sister Jean and the Loyola Ramblers are headed to the Final Four.This improbable NCAA Tournament just took its craziest turn yet.Ben Richardson scored 23 points and 11th-seeded Loyola romped to a 78-62 victory over Kansas State on Saturday night, capping off a remarkable run through the bracket-busting South Regional."Are you kidding me! Are you kidding me!" coach Porter Moser screamed over and over again in front of the scarf-clad faithful who made the trip south from Chica
  
  Read more

• Police: Officers kill woman during SWAT standoff in Ohio

  25-03-2018 00:53
  Police in Ohio's capital city of Columbus say a woman who shot at officers during a SWAT standoff has been killed. Columbus police in a statement Saturday afternoon identified the woman as 25-year-old Kaitlin Marie Demeo, of Columbus.
  
  Read more

• Missing 73-year-old woman from Hilliard found safe

  25-03-2018 00:09
  
  UPDATE: Hilliard Police says a woman missing from Hilliard has been found safe. No other information was immediately available. HILLIARD, Ohio -- The Hilliard Police Department is searching for a missing 73-year-old woman who suffers from dementia.Authorities say 73-year-old Sharen Ault was last seen leaving her residence on Falls Circle Drive in Hilliard around 5:15 p.m. Saturday.Police issued a missing adult alert after Ault failed to return to her home Saturday evening.
  
  Read more

• 73-year-old woman suffering from dementia missing from Hilliard

  25-03-2018 00:09
  
  HILLIARD, Ohio -- The Hilliard Police Department is searching for a missing 73-year-old woman who suffers from dementia.Authorities say 73-year-old Sharen Ault was last seen leaving her residence on Falls Circle Drive in Hilliard around 5:15 p.m. Saturday.Police issued a missing adult alert after Ault failed to return to her home Saturday evening.Authorities are asking for help in locating Ault, who has a reported medical condition.She is described as a white female, 5-foot-4-inches tall, weighi
  
  Read more

Follow @Colombus_News on Twitter!