NEWS

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Tiffin University releases dean’s list

TIFFIN — The spring dean’s list is out at Tiffin University.Several local students made the list including Sean Ballentine, Henson Zachari...

May 22nd, 2019 |  

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Monroe Township Trustees to meet

COLUMBUS GROVE — The Monroe Township Trustees will meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday, May 28, at the township house, 8500 Slabtown Road, Columbus Grove. .n...

May 22nd, 2019 |  

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Births

Lima Memorial Health System May 19 — Kayla Kitchen, Lima, girl.Mercy Health-St. Rita’s Medical CenterMay 21 — Taylin Searfoss and Ju...

May 22nd, 2019 |  

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Athletic honors for Bluffton’s Nisley

HARRISBURG, VA. —Eastern Mennonite University’s Elizabeth Nisley of Bluffton received the All-ODAC Third Team award given for winning thir...

May 22nd, 2019 |  

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UF students perform in spring voice recital

FINDLAY —Several area students performed recently in a spring voice recital at the University of Findlay. They include Alli Schlosser of St. Mar...

May 22nd, 2019 |  

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Downtown buildings demo’d for RTA parking lot

LIMA — Two more downtown properties have gotten the demolition treatment this week in order to prepare space for a Allen County Regional Transit...

May 22nd, 2019 |  

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SPORTS

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Roundup: Elida’s Adcock named WBL’s top baseball player

Elida’s Noah Adcock (player of the year) and Van Wert’s Charlie Witten and Defiance’s Tom Held (co-coaches of the year) have receive...

May 21st, 2019 |  

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Indians fall 5-3 to Athletics

CLEVELAND — Pinch-hitter Mark Canha’s two-run homer off struggling Cleveland starter Trevor Bauer in the third inning sent the Oakland Ath...

May 21st, 2019 |  

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Boys high school tennis: Ottawa-Glandorf’s Welch twins prepare for state

OTTAWA — Ottawa-Glandorf’s Collin and Carter Welch qualified for the Division II state tennis tournament in doubles this season and that e...

May 21st, 2019 updated: May 21st, 2019. |  

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Beilein plans Cavaliers ‘renaissance’

INDEPENDENCE — High on a wall and across the courts from where John Beilein was sitting, the Cavaliers’ basketball history stared the new ...

May 21st, 2019 |  

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Recker named top PCL player

Kalida’s Owen Recker was named the Putnam County League Player of the Year for the second year in a row and Columbus Groves’ Eric Naughton...

May 20th, 2019 |  

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Larson looking for turnaround after All-Star success

Eds: With AP Photos.CONCORD, N.C. (AP) — Kyle Larson was among NASCAR’s rising young stars in 2017 with four victories and his second stra...

May 20th, 2019 |  

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MULTIMEDIA - PHOTO STORE

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LIFESTYLE

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Ventimiglia says trip showed him Red Nose charity’s impact

LOS ANGELES — “This Is Us” star Milo Ventimiglia learned firsthand what the Red Nose Day’s fundraising campaign means to child...

May 21st, 2019 |  

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Births

Mercy Health-St. Rita’s Medical CenterMay 20 — Courtney and Matt Popiel, Lakeview, girl; Stephanie Saine and Matthew Smith, Lima, boy; Sh...

May 21st, 2019 |  

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‘Game of Thrones’ airs finale

LOS ANGELES — Winter has come and winter has gone, the last of the heads have been lopped off and the last of the dragon fire has been spit as &...

May 20th, 2019 |  

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Births

Mercy Health-St. Rita’s Medical CenterMay 15 — Meisha and Alberto Osorio, Wapkoneta, girl.May 17 — Courtney Quintana and Nathan Thu...

May 20th, 2019 |  

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‘John Wick 3’ dethrones ‘Avengers: Endgame’ with $57 million

LOS ANGELES — The box office has a new king and his name is John Wick. The third installment of the hyper violent Keanu Reeves franchise has tak...

May 19th, 2019 |  

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Mary and Morris Lehman

CRIDERSVILLE — Mr. and Mrs. Morris Lehman will celebrate 70 years of marriage this year.Lehman and the former Mary Turner were married May 21, 1...

May 18th, 2019 |  

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OPINION

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Kathleen Parker: When talking abortion, is Alabama crazier than New York?

WASHINGTON — When author Mark Childress penned “Crazy in Alabama,” he wasn’t just whistling Dixie.“I haven’t been ...

May 20th, 2019 |  

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Glenn Mollette: Graduation time in America

Everyone looks forward to graduation. For the high school senior it seemed like the day would never come. The college graduate breathes a sigh of reli...

May 20th, 2019 |  

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Letter: Roses to the concert band

Wow! A whole bouquet of 70 roses, one for each member of the Lima Area Concert Band which gave an outstanding performance recently at the Civic Center...

May 20th, 2019 |  

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Letter: Mom, doctors saved my life

I would like to thank The Lima News for publishing a story (A Stefanie Spielman champion – published May 10) on my mother, Patricia Carter, for ...

May 20th, 2019 |  

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Letter: Print it and we’ll decide

I recently read articles on the Opinion page by Leonard Pitts and Michael Reagan labeled “Their view.” At the end of Michael Reagan’...

May 20th, 2019 |  

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BUSINESS

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Total Revolution brings Jui-Jitsu to Lima

LIMA — Tucked behind a Dollar General store in a strip mall along Cable Road is a little-known mixed martial arts studio, Total Revolution Fitne...

May 21st, 2019 |  

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Allen County’s jobless rate reaches record low

LIMA — April was another record-breaking month for northwest Ohio.Allen County’s jobless rate fell to 3% in April, breaking the previous r...

May 21st, 2019 |  

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Tank plant readies new Abrams tanks

LIMA — Production is ramping up at the Joint Systems Manufacturing Center as the tank plant prepares to deliver the first brigade of M1A2 SEPv3 ...

May 21st, 2019 updated: May 21st, 2019. |  

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Ford cuts 7,000 white-collar jobs

DETROIT — Ford revealed details of its long-awaited restructuring plan Monday as it prepared for a future of electric and autonomous vehicles by...

May 20th, 2019 updated: May 20th, 2019. |  

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Olsson leaving The Lima News for role with Greater Lima Region Inc.

LIMA — The publisher of The Lima News will leave the newspaper at the end of the month and join Greater Lima Region Inc. as vice president for c...

May 20th, 2019 updated: May 20th, 2019. |  

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Column: ‘Grimmer by the day’ — Farmers’ love for Trump in peril

The love affair between President Donald Trump and rural America has always made sense to me.When I covered the 2016 presidential campaign, Trump ofte...

May 18th, 2019 |  

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STATE NEWS

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Mandatory overtime for nurses at center of hospital strike

TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — A hospital strike now in its third week is putting a spotlight on staffing shortages at the same time Ohio lawmakers are deb...

May 22nd, 2019 |  

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Some Ohio legislators yell ‘cut’ to Hollywood tax deals

CINCINNATI (AP) — Lights, camera, cut?Some of Hollywood’s biggest hit movies and equally big bombs have something in common: They were sho...

May 22nd, 2019 |  

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Mount Union parts with United Methodist Church

ALLIANCE — The University of Mount Union has cut ties with the United Methodist Church over the denomination’s recent bans on gay clergy a...

May 21st, 2019 |  

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Ohio House bill would end death penalty for killers with ‘serious mental illness’

COLUMBUS — A bill working its way through the state legislature seeks to prevent a death sentence for killers with a “serious mental illne...

May 19th, 2019 |  

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Hazing cases at Ohio universities rarely result in criminal charges

ATHENS — Fraternity brothers at Ohio University whipped their pledges with belts, pelted them with eggs and forced them to chug a large bottle o...

May 19th, 2019 |  

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Fire puts Ohio museums on alert

MASSILLON — Historical sites do their best to be prepared in case of an emergency.When area museum professionals learned a fire had broken out i...

May 18th, 2019 |  

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E-EDITION AND SPECIAL SECTIONS

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