NEWS

7:08 pm |

Voting bill faces likely defeat

7:01 pm |

Allen County commissioners look for flexibility during pandemic

6:49 pm |

Jury trial underway in drug trafficking case

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Ohio redistricting group eyes Saturday deadline

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Adgate Road reduced to one lane Wednesday

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Jackson Township trustees meeting canceled, set for Feb. 1

Police calls

LIMA POLICESouth Jameson Avenue at West Market Street, Lima — A traffic accident with property damage was investigated Monday.1100 block of East...

January 18th, 2022 |

COVID-19 test kits to be distributed Jan. 19

LIMA — Allen County Public Health has provided a limited number of at-home COVID-19 test kits to multiple Allen County fire/EMS departments to d...

January 18th, 2022 |

Today’s latest updates on the coronavirus pandemic

• Allen County Public Health made temporary procedural changes with the recent surge in COVID-19 cases. Vital statistics will be open with limit...

January 18th, 2022 updated: January 18th, 2022. |

Van Wert man pleads guilty in federal court to child porn charge

TOLEDO — A 71-year-old Van Wert man arrested last summer by the Federal Bureau of Investigation has pleaded guilty to child pornography charges....

January 18th, 2022 |

School delays and closings for Tuesday, Jan. 18

Wintry conditions led some schools to delay the start of classes Tuesday:Coldwater schools: Two-hour delay (previously scheduled).Crestview schools: T...

January 18th, 2022 updated: January 18th, 2022. |

Annual MLK breakfast goes virtual

LIMA — It may have looked different than in years past, but organizers managed to salvage the 27th annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. memorial b...

January 18th, 2022 updated: January 18th, 2022. |

SPORTS

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College football: Michigan officially hires Elston as coach

6:43 pm |

Garland leads Cavs to 114-107 win over Durant-less Nets

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Steelers face long-overdue reboot as Roethlisberger exits

Bengals’ D-line thinned by injuries

CINCINNATI (AP) — After the Bengals won a playoff game for the first time in three decades last Saturday, coach Zac Taylor and a few players del...

January 17th, 2022 |

Cowboys slide out of playoffs

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Deebo Samuel and the San Francisco 49ers have started another playoff run after hanging on in a frantic wild-card finish...

January 16th, 2022 |

Browns have five moves they really need to make before next season

CLEVELAND — The Browns have been forced to watch from home this weekend as rivals such as the Bengals and Steelers play in the Wild Card round, ...

January 16th, 2022 |

Ohio State holds on for win over Penn State

COLUMBUS (AP) — E.J. Liddell scored 19 points and No. 16 Ohio State defeated Penn State 61-56 Sunday in a Big Ten men’s basketball game.Oh...

January 16th, 2022 |

Ohio high school boys, girls basketball scores for Saturday, Jan. 15

BoysAkr. Manchester 49, Norton 43Albany Alexander 45, Coal Grove Dawson-Bryant 32Alliance Marlington 67, Salem 51Antwerp 69, Van Wert Lincolnview 37As...

January 15th, 2022 |

Roundup: Upper Scioto Valley edges Delphos St. John’s to stay unbeaten in boys hoops

DELPHOS ST. JOHN’S — Upper Scioto Valley outscored Delphos St. John’s 12-5 in the fourth quarter for a 46-45 boys high school basket...

January 15th, 2022 |

MULTIMEDIA - PHOTO STORE

LIFESTYLE

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Reminisce: Watt family full of early settlers in Allen County

7:00 am |

Lima Public Library Book Reviews

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Afoot in the House of Snow

At 100, why Betty Crocker is still a household name

How does a brand remain a household name for a century?Betty Crocker has a simple recipe: Keep changing.In October, the icon became a centenarian and ...

January 15th, 2022 |

Author James Rollins is back with a new fantasy series

James Rollins’ new fantasy novel, “The Starless Crown,” is set in a mythical world menaced by marauding beasts and threatened by an ...

January 15th, 2022 |

Real Life Mama: Love others, but love yourself, too

Out of nowhere, as we were snuggling before bed one night, Reagan started randomly singing a song she had made up. It went like this, “I love Mo...

January 15th, 2022 |

Living with Children: How to toilet train your toddler

Q: I recently tried toilet training my 32-month-old, but after a few days of no success, I decided to stop. A friend tells me to hang in there, but my...

January 15th, 2022 |

David Trinko: The downfall of too much silence

I’ve always felt I do my best work with a crowd behind me.For the first decade in my career, I covered sports. It seemed like my finest stories ...

January 15th, 2022 |

Dog tracker helps families reunite with runaway pets

JAMUL, Calif. — Seven years ago, Babs Fry was devastated when a pregnant terrier mix dog she was fostering at her Jamul ranch disappeared withou...

January 15th, 2022 |

OPINION

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Dallas Morning News: What we can learn from Colleyville synagogue terror attack

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Maha Zehery: Celebrating true democracy in USA

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Letter: Goodbye and good riddance, Big Ben

Holy Cow! History: Whipping inflation, 1974 style

“… the wholesale price index — precursor of what’s coming on the consumer front — had gone up a staggering 2.3 percent l...

January 18th, 2022 |

Jerry Zezima: Portrait of the artist as a family guy

As a husband, father and grandfather, which puts me at the bottom of the family pecking order, I have a lot in common with Brian Crane, the Reuben Awa...

January 17th, 2022 |

Letter: Property tax hike hurts senior citizens

When I was 26, I became a homeowner. I have maintained my home. I raised my family in that home. There are memories there. My child attended school in...

January 15th, 2022 |

Letter: Children deserve better protection

Too many times — in fact 92% of the time — the courts leave children underserved. Wherever the children end up residing, they suffer the d...

January 15th, 2022 |

Richard Holt: Dr. King’s false heirs

Imagine two children on a playground.These kids play. They laugh. They are helping each other on the slides and sharing a sandwich for lunch. At 4 yea...

January 15th, 2022 |

Barbara R. Arnwine and Daryl D. Jones: The discontent of one’s character

This weekend we pause to honor the life of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and to interpret his words calling upon America to see the content of t...

January 15th, 2022 |

BUSINESS

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Single and looking to rent?

4:44 pm |

California has a new COVID-19 mortgage relief program

2:46 pm |

FHFA nominee pledges to address racial homeownership gap

Omicron, inflation and corporate earnings

What’s growing faster than inflation? Profits are growing faster than consumer prices.Last year ended with a stew of seemingly contradictory eco...

January 15th, 2022 |

Out of prison for a month: How he’s rebuilding his life

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Three weeks after he was freed from prison, Kevin Strickland was driven around a changed Kansas City, his daughter showing hi...

January 15th, 2022 |

How the Doomsday Clock began ticking 75 years ago

CHICAGO — Martyl Langsdorf designed just one magazine cover, but it has had considerable staying power. A prolific painter of abstract and figur...

January 15th, 2022 |

Insurers, employers start helping more with chronic disease

Vanessa Akinniyi was stuck in denial about diabetes until a care manager from her health insurer coaxed her out.The Jacksonville, Florida, resident di...

January 15th, 2022 |

Biden administration launches program to fix 15,000 bridges

The Transportation Department is launching a $27 billion program to repair and upgrade roughly 15,000 highway bridges as part of the infrastructure la...

January 15th, 2022 |

Reghan Winkler: Checklist will help you prepare to file your tax return

This coming January 24 is the first day of the 2022 tax filing season, when the IRS will start accepting federal income tax returns for 2021. The date...

January 15th, 2022 |