UPDATE: A man is appealing to get back the Columbus firefighting job he lost after he was sentenced to jail for killing his dogs.

A Columbus firefighter who was convicted of shooting and dumping his dogs apologized Thursday, as part of his sentence.

UPDATE: The city’s public safety director announces his decision to terminate firefighter David Santuomo from the Columbus Division of Fire.

A local woman is charged with animal cruelty after her daughter says her mother slammed a family pet into the ground, killing it.

The fire chief recommends a Columbus firefighter who admitted he fatally shot his dogs and dumped them at a fire station be terminated.

PLEA DEAL: A Columbus firefighter who admits he fatally shot his dogs and dumped them at a fire station enters a guilty plea and is sentenced.

The Fairfield County sheriff’s office continued to look for a man who allegedly doused a woman’s cat in flammable liquid and set it on fire.