Zach Klein

The cities sued the state in 2020 claiming the state failed to update the criminal background check system used to investigate potential gun owners.

The Property Action Team, through the city attorney's office, consists of six lawyers and a full time social worker to help address problem properties the city tries to either fix or shut down.

The City of Columbus is asking the court to issue an injunction and declare the bus station a nuisance, alleging Greyhound and Baron Bus Lines, gained city approvals under false pretenses.

The legal battle over Columbus' local gun laws is ongoing in both Delaware County and Franklin County courts.

Cain's Sports Bar agreed with the Columbus City Attorney's Office to close early for four weeks.

The judge ruled that Paxe Latitude, which owns the Latitude Five25 Apartments on Sawyer Boulevard, just off Interstate 670, should be held in contempt for violating numerous provisions of a January court order. The ruling also said a court-appointed receiver would begin managing property.

A Tuesday public meeting comes amid an ongoing legal fight with the state over local control of gun laws.

Columbus city leaders are celebrating the ruling, which they say "upholds our constitutional right to home rule."

Columbus' city attorney says the city is close to facilitating an agreement for the sale of two East Side apartment towers where police responded to more than 1,000 calls over a two-year period.

Columbus city attorney Zach Klein said police have been called to Southpark Apartments over 800 times in the last year.