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Rhodes State board borrows $10 million
Samuel ‘Mr. Sign’ Kamin
Attorneys: Ohio State needs to reveal who knew about abuse
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NEWS
Attorneys: Ohio State needs to reveal who knew about abuse
TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — Administrators at Ohio State University should release the names of all coaches, trainers and personnel who knew of but fail...
May 21st, 2019 |
Fat Cat Diner to reopen as ‘Teasers’
LIMA — Fat Cat Diner will reopen this summer as Teasers Diner, a 24-hour American-style restaurant that its new owners hope will compete with Wa...
May 21st, 2019 |
Civil war soldier statue returns to its post
LAFAYETTE — Lafayette’s civil war soldier has returned to its post.“It’s been shot at, painted, egged and climbed on. It’...
May 21st, 2019 |
Commissioners receptive to county public defenders’ office
LIMA — As state legislators continue to put the finishing touches on a two-year state budget, preliminary indications point to the likelihood of...
May 21st, 2019 |
Mercer County Sheriff’s Office hosting dispatcher training
CELINA — The Mercer County Sheriff’s Office Central Dispatch will host a training day for dispatchers from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday, May ...
May 21st, 2019 |
Maumee Watershed District reaches settlement
OTTAWA — The Maumee Watershed Conservancy District lawsuit that was scheduled to go to trial Monday reached a settlement agreement.According to ...
May 21st, 2019 |
SPORTS
Updated: 10:18 pm. |
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 |
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 |
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 |
The past. The future. The present.
It seems weekly that I catch somebody looking at a glass enclosed plaque at 20th Century. Often in those conversations there will be opinion given tha...
May 20th, 2019 |
A’s beat Indians 6-4
CLEVELAND (AP) — Brett Anderson left in the sixth inning with a cervical strain, and the Oakland Athletics hung on to beat the Cleveland Indians...
May 20th, 2019 |
LIFESTYLE
‘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 |
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 |
‘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 |
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 |
Norma and Kenny Mullett
CONTINENTAL — Mr. and Mrs. Kenny Mullett celebrated 50 years of marriage on May 17 by going out to eat for dinner.Mullett and the former Norma M...
May 18th, 2019 |
Schroeder/Gilliland
LIMA — Kylie Nicole Schroeder and Ryan Arthur Gilliland announce their engagement.Schroeder is the daughter of Keith and Jan Schroeder, of Lima....
May 18th, 2019 |
OPINION
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 |
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 |
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 |
Letter: A cat shouldn’t get the bird
It’s a wonderful time of the year, with baby birds leaving their nests and learning how to fly. But unfortunately, it’s easy for cats to c...
May 20th, 2019 |
Dr. Jessica Johnson: Film “Breakthrough” touches on life’s lessons
If you have seen the film “Breakthrough,” I’m sure your heart was touched by the miracle Joyce Smith received during a 2015 January ...
May 20th, 2019 |
BUSINESS
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. |
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. |
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. |
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 |
Getting ready for Gen Z
BALTIMORE — When AT&T recruiters compete for young talent on college campuses, they want to show how the old telephone company has become a ...
May 18th, 2019 |
Liz Weston: The life-changing magic of working a bit longer
Retirement experts frequently recommend working longer if you haven’t saved enough. But you may not realize just how powerful a little extra wor...
May 18th, 2019 |
STATE NEWS
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Land banks want state funds to raze commercial, industrial properties
COLUMBUS — City and county land banks across the state are pushing Ohio legislators to approve $50 million to demolish empty commercial and indu...
May 16th, 2019 |
Panel recommends adding 2 conditions for medical marijuana
CLEVELAND — A panel of physicians recommended that the State Medical Board of Ohio vote next month to include anxiety and autism spectrum disord...
May 9th, 2019 |
