Columbus

Prajjé O. Jean Baptiste debuted an amazing, fur-free collection as head designer at the 14th annual Fashion Week Columbus Finale Runway Show.

The protesting that occurred in Columbus, Ohio last year led to many nonviolent participants being physically hurt due to excessive force by the police, and now 32 of those victims will be compensated for their injuries thanks to a $5.75 million settlement the city has agreed to pay up.

The owners of Kai’s Crab Boil in Columbus, Ohio, are searching for a customer who slapped an employee, and the incident was captured on video.

Adam Coy, the former Columbus Police Officer who was fired after killing unarmed Andre Hill on December 22, 2020, while responding to a non-emergency call appeared in court for the first time for a bond hearing.  

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the last time I got a speeding ticket. It was nearly a decade ago and it’s a pretty unremarkable story: I was on my way back to Columbus, Ohio, from a friend’s wedding and was going something like 15 mph over the speed limit. An officer pulled me […]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A longtime police officer forced women to have sex with him under threat of an arrest, pressured others to help cover up crimes, and lied to federal investigators when he said he’d never had sex with prostitutes, according to charges unveiled Monday. Columbus vice squad Officer Andrew Mitchell, 55, was arrested […]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A 13-year-old Ohio boy fatally shot by a police officer investigating a report of an armed robbery was remembered at his funeral Saturday as someone with a special glow. “He lit up a room. He demanded your attention,” said Michael Bell, who coached Tyre King on his youth football team. Hundreds […]

According to police, one of the officers fired several rounds into an alley, striking Tyree King. King was transported to Nationwide Children's Hospital and listed in critical condition, but did not survive.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The husband of a woman accused of suffocating her three sons has been charged with sexually assaulting her when she was a teenager and had been living in her house for years as her stepfather, according to an indictment made public Thursday. The indictment in Logan County in western Ohio charged […]

The Tom Joyner Morning Show traveled to Georgia to Florida! Check out the pics!  

Michael B. Coleman achieved a major milestone this year. As the mayor of Columbus, Ohio in his 15th year,  Coleman is the city’s longest-serving mayor and the longest-serving Black mayor in the country. Coleman was born in Indianapolis, Indiana but moved to the town of Toledo as a young boy. A graduate of both the […]