
- Crime drops in 2009
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- LIMA — Conventional wisdom says high unemployment and a struggling economy should send crime skyrocketing.
Surprise, surprise.
Statistics from local police agencies show fewer crimes overall... Full story
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- Cable TV: the competition of one
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- Diversity education goes beyond MLK Day
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- Differences remain two years later
- Police, black leader disagree on how much progress made in wake of Wilson shooting
- Heather Rutz
- LIMA — Two years after a police officer shot and killed a woman during a drug raid, some community responses to the incident are fully under way. Others remain works in progress.
After a white officer shot a biracial woman, the incident... Full story
- County’s money woes top 2009 newsmakers
- David Trinko
- LIMA — Allen County’s residents delivered a firm message to their government in 2009: If we have to survive on less money, so do you.
Voters used a November referendum to erase a 0.5-percentage point increase in the sales tax the county... Full story

- The Eagle, the soldier and a friend
- Marine from Lima preserves friend’s legacy with car
- Tyrel Linkhorn
- LIMA — Between patrols in the dangerous desolation of Afghanistan, Chip Hayes and Chris Zimmerman passed time talking about faith, the future and Zimmerman’s plans to fix up a car he had waiting stateside.
Zimmerman never got the... Full story

- Empty promises: Counties have mixed success recovering funds when companies close shop
- Nancy Kline
- LIMA – Hope surrounds a new company or industry moving into a community. New jobs and new tax revenue are uppermost in officials’ minds as they hear the news about an expansion at or addition of a company.
Those officials often offer a... Full story
- Vote on the top local, Ohio, AP and business stories of the year
- Staff reports
- Tell us what's important that happened in 2009!
Readers of The Lima News are being asked to tell us what they think were the Top 10 stories of the year. You're able to voice your opinion on the top local, Ohio, national and business stories of the... Full story

- The (few) men of education
- Male teachers in short supply, especially in lower grades
- Beth L. Jokinen
- DELPHOS — Just a few years ago Brett Halsey was a “cubicle guy,” working as an environmental engineer.
On any given day now, he might be doing the Chicken Cha-Cha during a phonics dance, listening to a story about the Tooth Fairy,... Full story

- Helping the helpers
- Volunteers can carry emotional scars of ambulance work
- J.D. Bruewer
- LIMA — One minute, they’re sitting at the family dinner table, talking to their children about their days.
The next, they’re rushing in an ambulance to a traffic accident scene. They treat the victims’ wounds and transport... Full story

- Deer, dents and dinner
- Region deals with increasing whitetail population
- David Trinko
- LIMA — The traffic on Elida Road just west of Lima is notoriously bad. Cars dart in and out of the dozens of parking lots along busy state Route 309.
With all that congestion, Chris Hullinger didn’t expect to see a staple of nature, a... Full story

- Salute to veterans
- The Lima News recognizes the region's veterans with our annual "Salute to veterans" section.
Area veterans and their families share their stories about what they went through during World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War:
What lessons... Full story

- Mike Lackey's farewell column, tribute and 'Looking for Limas'
- Staff reports
- The Lima News remembers Mike Lackey's 23 years of column writing:
Mike Lackey: It's been a long road (part way) back
Colleagues remember Lackey's love of Lima, its people
Kim Kincaid: Lackey’s kindness hard to forget
... Full story