Latest Updates
- Economic test awaits Biden - 10:38 pm
- Virtual chapel service includes bishop sermon, ‘Restless for Justice’ - 6:00 pm
- Allen County Board of Elections to meet - 5:00 pm
- Lima event honors service, remembers MLK’s legacy - 4:25 pm
- Bluffton planning commission to meet - 4:01 pm
- Increase in email, text ‘phishing’ scams reported - 3:58 pm updated: 4:00 pm.
- Today’s latest updates on the coronavirus pandemic - 3:49 pm
- Man hid 3 months in Chicago airport - 3:02 pm
- Police calls - 3:01 pm
- Juvenile charged as adult in year-old murder outside Pappy’s bar - 2:59 pm
- Rhodes State trustees plan regular meeting - 2:54 pm
- Bluffton parks and recreation committee to meet - 2:52 pm
- Bluffton couple indicted for human trafficking - 2:33 pm
- Wapakoneta school board sets May 25 meeting - 12:30 pm
- Wapakoneta school board’s May meeting set - 9:30 am
- Delphos City Council to meet - 7:46 pm
- Fire damages Shawnee Township home - 6:33 pm
- Small crowd of protesters mingle, argue at Ohio Statehouse - 5:41 pm
- Threats prompt Shawnee United Methodist Church to go virtual Sunday - 5:17 pm
- Small numbers of protesters gather at fortified US capitols - 5:04 pm
- Jim Krumel column: Non-violence remains a potent weapon - 5:00 pm
- Lima Senior’s Sigman to pursue sports psychology career - 4:34 pm
- Jumpstarting Lima’s growth with King’s words of hope - 4:25 pm updated: 8:14 am.
- Today’s latest updates on the coronavirus pandemic - 3:45 pm
- Wapakoneta school board’s April meeting set - 1:59 pm
NEWS

Today’s latest updates on the coronavirus pandemic
• Health Partners of Western Ohio will be administering COVID-19 vaccines at the Bradfield Community Center to seniors 80 years and older this T...
January 18th, 2021 |

Man hid 3 months in Chicago airport
CHICAGO (AP) — A California man who told police that the coronavirus pandemic left him afraid to fly has been arrested on charges that he hid in...
January 18th, 2021 |

Police calls
LIMA POLICE500 block of Calumet Avenue, Lima — A theft was reported Sunday.200 block of West Grand Avenue, Lima — A domestic violence inci...
January 18th, 2021 |

Juvenile charged as adult in year-old murder outside Pappy’s bar
LIMA — One of two juveniles who police say shot and killed Lima resident Danielle Jackson during a robbery attempt nearly a year ago outside Pap...
January 18th, 2021 |

Rhodes State trustees plan regular meeting
LIMA — The Rhodes State College Board of Trustees will hold its regular meeting at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 19 via Zoom.__JAMES A. RHODES STATE C...
January 18th, 2021 |

Bluffton parks and recreation committee to meet
BLUFFTON — The Village of Bluffton Parks and Recreation Committee will meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 19 via Zoom.Receive an invitation to the Zoo...
January 18th, 2021 |
SPORTS

Brady and Buccs move on; is Brees calling it a career?
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Tom Brady’s best game in three tries against New Orleans kept the Buccaneers moving on in the NFL playoffs, and has Sai...
January 17th, 2021 |

Browns are different now, but playoffs didn’t get the message
KANSAS CITY — Just like so many painful playoff losses in their past, the Browns came up achingly short — inches from a game-swinging play...
January 17th, 2021 |

Versatile Buckeyes winning without a big man
COLUMBUS — While the Ohio State football team was busy making its way to the National Championship Game amid a global pandemic, the Ohio State b...
January 17th, 2021 |

Bluffton’s Schriner named soccer All-American
Bluffton High School’s Jonathan Schriner was among 59 players named an All-American during Saturday’s United Soccer Coaches National Conve...
January 17th, 2021 |

Ohio high school boys, girls basketball scores for Saturday, Jan. 16
BoysAmherst Steele 53, Avon Lake 51Andrews Osborne Academy 63, Cle. Cent. Cath. 26Antwerp 52, Van Wert Lincolnview 47Attica Seneca E. 50, Arcadia 28Ba...
January 16th, 2021 |

Roundup: Bluffton converts school record 25 3-pointers
BLUFFTON – Bluffton set a boys basketball school record with 25 3-pointers in a 101-46 boys basketball steamrolling of Cory-Rawson Saturday nigh...
January 16th, 2021 updated: January 17th, 2021. |
LIFESTYLE

Gloria and John Boop
UNIOPOLIS — Mr. and Mrs. John Boop are celebrating 50 years of marriage. A quiet dinner for the couple is planned.Boop and the former Gloria Mih...
January 16th, 2021 |

Mary Margaret and Robert Stolly
LIMA — Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Stolly are celebrating 65 years of marriage.Stolly and the former Mary Margaret Winkler were married Jan. 21, 1956...
January 16th, 2021 |

A changing church: Pandemic spurs faith groups to learn technology
LIMA — Kris Browning, lead pastor of Shawnee Alliance Church, laughs when he thinks about retiring in 35 years or so and helping a new pastor tr...
January 16th, 2021 |

David Trinko: Lessons learned from labels on salad dressing
Two of my daughters were sitting at the dinner table, looking at the nutrition facts on the back of a bottle of ranch salad dressing.They started talk...
January 16th, 2021 |

J.Lo, Gaga to perform at inauguration
The A-list is back. How A-list? Try Lady Gaga and J. Lo. Inauguration officials announced Thursday that the glittery duo would appear in person on Jan...
January 15th, 2021 |

MLK honored with events this weekend
REGION — There are a few events to choose from this weekend:• An event to honor Martin Luther King Jr. will begin at 1 p.m. Monday at the ...
January 14th, 2021 updated: January 15th, 2021. |
OPINION

Dr. Jessica Johnson: The fierce urgency of now.
“We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now.”As we celebrate Martin Luther Ki...
January 17th, 2021 |

Letter: Enough is enough
This is a letter to the children running our government.Almost without exception, and no matter if they have an ‘R’ or ‘D’ beh...
January 17th, 2021 |

Letter: Answer to double-standard
I watched as the protest at the Capitol turned into a riot. In no way do I blame President Trump for this any more than I blame Kamala Harris for the ...
January 17th, 2021 |

Jim Krumel column: Non-violence remains a potent weapon
What is it that America has failed to hear?That was one of the questions Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. posed to an overflow crowd of more than 2,000 peop...
January 17th, 2021 |

Michael Reagan: It’s time for Trump, Biden to suck it up
Everyone should be outraged at Democrats and Republicans for the damage they’ve done to the country during the last year.But right now, as the c...
January 16th, 2021 |

Letter: How big is the solar farm?
After reading all of the pros and cons of the solar panel fields, no one that I recall brought this up:The amount of acres it would take up is over 2,...
January 16th, 2021 |
BUSINESS

Legal-Ease: Waking the sleeping dogs of rural septic systems
Sewage is generally classified into two categories. The first category is storm sewage, sometimes called stormwater sewage. This is sewage that result...
January 16th, 2021 |

Hyundai, Ford F-150, Mustang Mach-E take North American Car, Truck, Utility of Year Awards
DETROIT — Ford Motor Co. took two of three of the 2021 North American Car, Truck and Utility Vehicle of the Year Awards announced Monday.The Hyu...
January 15th, 2021 |

Allen County companies land $250K in JobsOhio inclusion grants
LIMA — Seven Allen County companies are set to receive $25,000 and $50,000 grants for manufacturing development projects through a new JobsOhio ...
January 12th, 2021 updated: January 12th, 2021. |

Lima Stock + Field store among closures
LIMA — Stock + Field on Cable Road will close later this year, becoming the latest major retailer to vacate a storefront in Lima.Stock + Field C...
January 12th, 2021 updated: January 12th, 2021. |

Guardian Lima talks ethanol production
LIMA — Each day, Guardian Lima grinds roughly 420 acres of corn. The ethanol plant is known for its production of fuel-grade ethanol, an alterna...
January 11th, 2021 |

Another big year for fake meat
Jimmy Dean, the quintessential breakfast sausage brand, is adding plant-based patties in a product debut that is as sure a sign as any that America is...
January 9th, 2021 |
STATE NEWS

Columbus health commissioner: Early stand-by list for COVID vaccine was a ‘misstep’
When patients fail to show for their COVID-19 vaccination and the shots are set to expire, Columbus Public Health turns to a wait list of patients to ...
January 17th, 2021 |

Ohio opioid overdose deaths at 10-year high start of pandemic
Ohio opioid overdose deaths surged during the second quarter of 2020, making it the deadliest three-month period since the opioid epidemic began, acco...
January 17th, 2021 |

Police: Officers, suspect wounded in struggle after break-in
KENT, Ohio (AP) — Two police officers responding to a report of a break-in at an Ohio home struggled with an armed suspect and were wounded by g...
January 17th, 2021 |

‘Little old West Virginia’ sets pace on vaccine rollout
KENOVA, W.Va. (AP) — Griffith & Feil Drug has been in business since 1892, a family-owned, small-town pharmacy. This isn’t their first...
January 17th, 2021 |

Chillicothe to be featured in upcoming production of ‘Our Town’
ATHENS — The First Capital Rotary in Chillicothe knows all about the importance of honoring their hometown’s history — just look at ...
January 16th, 2021 |

Teens tutor peers online to fill need during pandemic
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — When her suburban Dallas high school was forced to move online last spring because of the coronavirus pandemic, Charvi Goy...
January 16th, 2021 |