A Columbus man who shot two people during a dispute, killing one, will spend at least the next 21 years in prison.   Mehki Miller, 19, pleaded guilty to one count of murder with a three-year gun specification; felonious assault with a three-year gun specification; tamperin...

A Columbus man accused of raping multiple women from the Linden area will spend at least the next 17 years in prison.   Michael T. Davis, 58, pleaded guilty on Aug. 29 to five counts of rape in connection with sexual assaults that took place between 2013 and 2024. His plea...

A Prairie Township motel that has been the site of repeated drug and violent activity was shut down today by the Franklin County Prosecutor’s Office’s newly formed Nuisance Abatement Unit . The New Rome Motel, 5246 W. Broad St., closed at noon following a preliminary i...

A Columbus man who admitted to shooting and killing a Georgia man during a fight outside a Waffle House will spend the next two decades in prison. Jaquan Curry, 21, pleaded guilty today to felony counts of involuntary manslaughter with a three-year firearm specification, ame...

Today, a Franklin County Grand Jury indicted Daveonte Dixon on several charges related to the May 28th shooting of two Mifflin Township police officers and shooting toward four Franklin County Sheriff’s Deputies.  Dixon is charged with: 2 counts of Attempted Murder 6 count...

Yesterday, the Franklin County Prosecutor’s Office Nuisance Abatement Unit and the Columbus City Attorney’s Office Property Action Team shut down a known drug house on the south side of Columbus.   On August 5, the Nuisance Abatement Unit and the Property Action Team filed...

A Franklin County grand jury has indicted a Lewis Center man in an early morning crash in Dublin that killed a 24-year-old. Kirk D. Barton, 40, was indicted late yesterday on counts of aggravated vehicular homicide and two counts of operating a motor vehicle while impaired. ...

Former Columbus Division of Police Officer Adam Coy was sentenced today to life in prison for fatally shooting Andre Hill in December 2020.   In November 2024, Coy, 48, was found guilty of murder, felonious assault, and reckless homicide. Today, a judge imposed the mandato...

A Columbus man has admitted to strangling his pregnant girlfriend, killing both her and her unborn child in 2024. Devon Blair, 24, pleaded guilty today to one count of strangulation and two counts each of involuntary manslaughter and felonious assault. A judge sentenced him ...

A Columbus man faces at least 26 years in prison for a 2022 shooting in a Hilltop bar that killed two men and wounded two others.   Anthony Davis, 25, was convicted today on four counts of murder, one count of aggravated murder, two counts of felonious assault and one coun...