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Spanish researchers have claimed that DNA and other analyses indicate that Christopher Columbus likely came from a Jewish family in Spain.

A 5-year-old Ohio boy has been found deceased after a statewide manhunt for him and his foster mother, who is accused of kidnapping the child and later leading police to his body.

Three teenagers have been arrested for allegedly beating an Ohio father of three to death in a horrifying “random act of violence” at a grocery store.

The body of an Ohio State graduate student who had been missing for more than a month was found on Wednesday near a remote quarry.

A measles outbreak in central Ohio has infected at least 82 children, including 32 who have been hospitalized, according to Columbus Public Health (CPH).

A five-month-old was found alive in Indianapolis on Thursday after a car carrying him and his twin brother was stolen in Ohio.

A box covering a Christopher Columbus statue in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has been painted red, green, and white, the colors of the Italian flag.

An accused Islamic State (ISIS) operative living in Columbus, Ohio allegedly sought to smuggle terrorists through the United States-Mexico border in a plot to assassinate former President George W. Bush, an unsealed Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) search warrant application reveals. 

The disturbing assault of an elderly man that happened in Columbus, Ohio, recently was recorded by a surveillance camera.

A white OSU student who shouted “where is your mask” at a black police sergeant before striking him during a Black Lives Matter rally against police brutality in April pleaded guilty to assaulting on the officer.

A statue of famed European explorer Christopher Columbus was vandalised on Tuesday in London, led by iconoclast leftist mayor Sadiq Khan.

A policeman named Brian Wilson in Columbus, Ohio, is being praised for saving a two-year-old girl from drowning while he was off the clock.

Referring to food as “exotic” creates distance between individuals and groups and “reinforces xenophobia and racism,” according to a recent Washington Post article.

A 22-year-old man who was convicted of setting a puppy on fire last fall in Columbus, Ohio, was sentenced to three years in prison on Thursday. The puppy survived the attack and was adopted by the staff of the animal hospital that provided emergency treatment.

A seven-year-old girl in Milton, West Virginia, named Avery Sweat was fine until about six weeks ago when she developed symptoms her parents thought were asthma.

Police are less likely to “make split-second decisions to save lives” if they fear false accusations “of being racist,” Ken Blackwell said.

Twitter said it would not take action on a tweet posted by basketball player LeBron James targeting a Columbus police officer who fatally shot an knife-wielding assailant attacking an unidentified woman in Columbus, Ohio last week. The company claims its hands are tied because James deleted his tweet before the company could decide if it broke the rules.

On Thursday’s “CNN Tonight,” former Democratic Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams said that “Regardless of what Ma’Khia Bryant may have been doing, there is no justification for taking her life without attempting some form of intervention,” and that people are

Former President Donald Trump issued a statement on Thursday slamming NBA star LeBron James for his “racist rants” that are “doing nothing to bring our country together.” “LeBron James should focus on basketball rather than presiding over the destruction of

On Thursday’s broadcast of CNN’s “OutFront,” attorney Benjamin Crump said that it “seems to be” that the fatal police shooting of Ma’Khia Bryant in Columbus, OH is different from the killings of Daunte Wright and George Floyd because Wright and Floyd

Basketball player LeBron James deleted his tweet calling for “accountability” for a police officer who saved a number of young black people from a stabbing spree yesterday following widespread backlash, but the posts from other Twitter users mocking his reaction are still readily available.

During an interview with ABC News released on Wednesday, NAACP President and CEO Derrick Johnson said that the fatal police shooting of Ma’Khia Bryant in Columbus, OH was a situation “where a taser should have been used, and yet a gun

On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “The ReidOut,” host Joy Reid discussed the fatal police shooting of Ma’Khia Bryant in Columbus, OH and remarked that she remembers fights in school where a kid had a knife “and teachers were able to

The National Fraternal Order of Police, the largest organization of sworn law enforcement officers, slammed NBA superstar LeBron James on Wednesday for a social media post singling out a Columbus, Ohio, police officer present during the fatal shooting of Ma’Khia Bryant.

On Tuesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “11th Hour,” host Brian Williams discussed the fatal police shooting of Ma’Khia Bryant in Columbus, OH and said that while a knife is visible in the body camera footage of the shooting, the officer “fired

The president tried to recall the details of the event while speaking with a child care worker in Columbus, Ohio on Tuesday.

A Columbus, Ohio, nightclub was cited for breaking coronavirus restrictions after allowing more than 500 people into a Saturday concert given by R&B singer Trey Songz.

Seventeen-year-old Markel Davis — the teenager who cooked and delivered meals to hundreds of Columbus officers during the June protests — delivered full meals to two precincts of the Cleveland Police Department on Saturday, after raising the money online.

Columbus Police are calling on the public for help in locating people who participated in an attack on a disabled resident.

Columbus, Ohio, named after the famed explorer, has removed a statue of Christopher Columbus that stood outside the City Hall.

Columbus State Community College announced this week that they will remove a statue of Christopher Columbus from campus grounds. One college official said in a statement that the statue was “not consistent” with the community college’s values.

The student government of Ohio State University is demanding that the school sever ties with Columbus Police, citing “injustices against the black community and Columbus protesters.”

An Ohio animal hospital is seeking to help police horses injured during the riots that took place across the country this weekend — free of charge.

Protestors gathered at Ohio’s state capital in Columbus on Saturday calling for the coronavirus lockdown to end so people can get back to work.

Officials shut down the annual Arnold Sports Festival in Columbus, Ohio, this year to general spectators due to coronavirus fears, leaving the festival with a lot of food but no one to eat it.

Two former Somali specialty market owners in Columbus, Ohio, are facing more than $10 million in food stamp fraud charges, authorities say.