2008
Stores and parking lots across Columbus were nearly full as shoppers armed with coupons and sales ads to help them cut back on holiday spending while scoping out Black Friday deals.
1993
Police officials in Decatur, Jackson and Bartholomew counties blamed a light snow mixed with sleet for a rash of accidents on slick overpasses and bridges.
1968
With the opening of the Christmas shopping season, Columbus Police Chief Glenn Line announced that local police would begin shoplifting prevention surveillance at local businesses and offer a shoplifting clinic for all Columbus merchants in cooperation with the Chamber of Commerce.
