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Marc Bowker, the owner of Alter Ego Comics in downtown Lima, sees opportunities in the difficult economy.
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Marc Bowker, the owner of Alter Ego Comics in downtown Lima, sees opportunities in the difficult economy.
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Marc Bowker, the owner of Alter Ego Comics in downtown Lima, sees opportunities in the difficult economy.
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Delphos St. John's student Teresa Pohlman holds the first place trophy Saturday after wining the Allen County Spelling Bee in Lima. The winning word was "monotonous."
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Shawnee Maplewood student Nikole McPheron looks up as she thinks about how to spell a word during the Allen County Spelling Bee.
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Columbus Grove school board member Ned Stechschulte raises his fist in celebration as the results of a school levy are announced in Ottawa on Tuesday. Superintendent Bob Jennell (center) and board member Ken Kruse (right) look on.
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People sit and listen to a hearing in Lima Muncipal Court on Friday. Judge William Lauber recently requested that a Lima woman remove her hat in the court.
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Wanda Coleman argues with a social worker while holding her "son" in Lima on Thursday during a simulation where people play the role of living in poverty to learn about the difficulties of the poor.
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Beaverdam firefighters attempt to put out a blaze at 306 W. Main St. in Beaverdam on Tuesday. Tom O'Rourke, the owner of the house, said he lost his dog and a 3-month-old kitten in the fire.
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Board chairman Wilfred Ellis (left) and college president Debra McCurdy listen to fellow member Kenneth Clemens during a contentious meeting of the board of trustees of Rhodes State College in Lima on Tuesday. The board narrowly voted to renew McCurdy's
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David Collins, executive director of the American Red Cross chapter in Lima, surveys repairs Tuesday. Water seeping below the foundation caused major portions of the building to sink.
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Britney Johnson (left) and her sister Ebony (right) argue over who will drive at the Allen County Democratic Party Minority Caucus Inaugural Ball on Tuesday. Their mother, Judy (second from left), and Sharon Guice (second from right), look on.
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Nellie Wages leaves Rigali's Pizza Village in Lima on Tuesday. An unknown person stole more than $7,000 from the restaurant late Monday.
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Isabella Owens, 3, waits to show her mom, Theresa, a book about penguins at the library in Lima on Tuesday. The Lima Public Library will soon have to make $221,000 in budget cuts.
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Charlie Moore holds a football at the Wilson Sporting Goods factory in Ada on Monday. The football will be used in Super Bowl XLIII in Tampa Bay, Fla., on Feb. 1. Moore helped manufacture more than 5 million footballs in his 44-year career.
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President Barack Obama give his inaugural address on a television at the Fresh & Faded barber shop in Lima on Tuesday.
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Otis Pearson stands in front of a banner of president-elect Barack Obama as he speaks at the 30th annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. awards banquet in Lima on Sunday. The awards, determined by Iota Phi Theta fraternity, honored local community leaders.
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A reporter examines the interior of a 2010 Ford Fiesta at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit Sunday. The Fiesta, which has only been available in markets outside the U.S., will be available to American buyers in 2010.
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Bradley and Melissa Lintermoot will be featured in CMT's "My Big Redneck Wedding" on Saturday.
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The owner of Lucas Ford says his Greeley Chapel Road dealership remains open for business despite recent layoffs.
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Local NAACP President Jason Upthegrove delivers a speech at the Shiloh Baptist Church in Lima on Tuesday flanked by the Rev. H. Frank Taylor (left) and Lima City Councilman Tommy Pitts.
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Honda Executive Ed Miller stands before the 2010 line-up of Acuras at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit on Sunday. Many of the company's Hondas and Acuras are built in Marysville and Anna.
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Bill Ford, chairman of Ford Motor Co., talks about the future of the U.S. automaker at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit on Sunday. The company announced it would offer zero-emmissions cars within the next four years.
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Lima Mayor David Berger told the Rotary the city should create a niche for itself in high-tech manufacturing.
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Brooke Miller, 5, slides down a hill Saturday in Lima's Farout Park as her father, Craig, watches from above.
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Ron Deatrick (left) helps a customer on the telephone while John Kistler, Jr. helps a customer at the counter of Tri-R Guns in Ottawa. "Since the election, we've been flat swamped," Deatrick said. "We're wondering how long that's going to last."
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Connor Stechschulte, 9, shapes his Pinewood Derby car Saturday in Lima while his friend Dylan Wiechart, 9, works in the background.
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Ohio State University football fans Jim Chapman, Josh Handshoe, and Brad Goldsberry (from left to right) react to an OSU first down while watching the Fiesta Bowl at Custer's Chateau in Lima on Monday.
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Tae'Sha Wilson, 9, and Serea'Sha Wilson, 6, hold candles in Lima on Sunday at the house where their mother, Tarika Wilson, was killed by Lima Police Sgt. Joe Chavalia during a raid one year earlier.
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Maryanne Raeabaugh (left) watches Diane Drerup bowl a strike while playing the Nintendo Wii at the Putnam Acres Care Center in Ottawa on Monday. Police said two thieves masquerading as job applicants stole the interactive system from the center Sunday.
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Darla Jennings sits with her grandson Sincere Wilson, 2, in her living room in Lima. Sunday marks the one-year anniversary of Lima police Sgt. Joe Chavalia shooting Sincere and fatally wounded his unarmed mother, Tarika Wilson.
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Nick Myers, 4, peeks over a counter at The Andersons on Friday as his father, Tim, returns a University of Michigan sweatshirt. Tina Biglow said The Andersons saw a slow-but-steady slew of people returning Christmas gifts.
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Bobbi Crum (right) stares at the ground at the Samaritan House women's shelter in Lima on Dec. 10 while Samaritan House workers Janel Engberg (left) and Leora Steele discuss her situation.
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Bobbi Crum at Samaritan House.
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Bobbi Crum at Samaritan House.
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William Shaw, of Lima, smiles as he is served a Christmas lunch at the American Legion in Lima on Thursday. More than 100 people took part in the free feast.
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Dennis Lee Luckett enters Joey's Subs in downtown Lima Tuesday. The longtime downtown establishment will be closing permanently at the end of the year. "I'm going to miss Joey's," Luckett said. "I remember back in the day when subs cost 75 cents."
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Anaoudion Perry, 4, watches as his cousin Omega Phifer, 13, gives him a piece of pancake Saturday at the Breakfast with Santa at the Cheryl Allen Southside Center in Lima. Parents and children ate breakfast, and the kids got a visit from Santa Claus.
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Latoya Townsend (right) holds 24-day-old K'yArion Davis at the Breakfast with Santa at the Cheryl Allen Southside Center in Lima while K'yArion's mother, Daysha Allen, looks on.
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A snowplow pushes ice and slush from the roadway outside of Elida on Friday.
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Beulah Snider
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One of Beulah Snider's fruitcakes sits on her counter in her home near Elida on Friday.
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A slide of film sits on Beulah Snider's window sill near Elida on Friday showing one of her fruitcakes.
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Len, a 3-month-old English springer spaniel, runs with his tongue flapping at the 2008 National Amateur English Springer Spaniel Championships near Waynesfield on Monday. The multiday event brought pheasant hunters and their dogs to Auglaize County.
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Erica Gaberdiel, 2, cuddles Tuesday with Tami Gough, executive director of the Family Promise of Lima-Allen County center.
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Jessica Staley, 1, holds plays with Isaac Gaberdiel, 4, at the Family Promise center.
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Brian Papworth examines the snow from a chair lift at Mad River Mountain outside Zanesfield on Thursday.
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A worker shuts down a snow-making machine at Mad River Mountain ski resort outside Zanesfield on Thursday. A crew of about 20 works nonstop, alternating on 12-hour shifts, to make the snow for skiiers.
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Brian Papworth
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Jennifer Sanders examines a buck she killed while it is being tagged at a check-in center in Delphos on Monday. "I've never caught one that big," said her husband, Brandon. "Of course, she's a better shot than me."