COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) β This week on the Sunday Briefing: See how Ohio cities are joining the legal fight. βWe donβt want members to be in a position where they could be trading individual stocks and profiting upon the actions that they would be voting on,β Rep. Mike Carey (R-Ohio 15th) said. The support and [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- A bipartisan bill introduced in the U.S. Senate is called the "Restore Trust in Congress Act," and if it passes it will ban stock ownership and trading for members of Congress and their immediate family. A similar bill is making its way through the House. Sponsors say there are serious concerns [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- Lawyers representing New Albany billionaire Les Wexner are asking a judge to quash a subpoena calling Wexner to testify in a case regarding a former Ohio State doctor who sexually abused athletes for 20 years. Former athletes are suing Ohio State, alleging the university failed to protect students from Richard Strauss, [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- Ohio State University will not consider removing the name of billionaire and former OSU board president Les Wexner from the practice field at the Woody Hayes Athletic Center, NBC4 has learned. Sexual assault survivors of former university doctor Richard Strauss have made efforts to demand the university strip Wexner's name from [...]
ATHENS, Ohio (WCMH) β Ohio Universityβs Marching 110 is closing in on a fundraising goal that will give the award-winning marching band its first-ever home field. OU is trying to raise $3 million to build a practice field for the band. So far, the university has raised more than $2 million, and is trying to [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- One year to the day after his appointment to Congress, Ohio Sen. Jon Husted sat down with NBC4's Colleen Marshall to reflect on his first year. Husted, 58, was Ohio's lieutenant governor for six years before Gov. Mike DeWine appointed him to fill the Senate seat J.D. Vance left to become [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) β This weekβs Sunday Briefing: Hear from the woman knocking on daycare doors in central Ohio as Gov. Mike DeWine pushes back.