Latest Updates
- Lima Council approves family housing and lot swap - 8:59 pm
- Two local students volunteer at Mount Union’s MLK Day of Service - 8:00 pm
- Berger delivers final “State of the City” - 7:47 pm
- ‘I could not let my country go on this way’: Sites to challenge Jordan for Ohio’s Fourth after Capitol insurrection - 7:29 pm updated: 11:05 pm.
- Trump’s sway over GOP tested as impeachment heads to Senate - 7:07 pm updated: 8:22 pm.
- Putnam County District Library to hold retirement talk - 7:00 pm
- Northwest State Community College releases dean’s list - 6:00 pm
- Minster Board of Education to hold special meeting - 5:45 pm
- Dungeons & Dragons game day slated for library’s teen club - 5:00 pm
- Coughlan makes dean’s list - 4:00 pm
- Home sales up in Ohio in 2020 - 3:21 pm
- Business creation in Ohio sets record - 3:19 pm updated: 3:27 pm.
- People in custody in Delphos armed robbery - 3:16 pm
- Putnam County library offers bilingual storytime - 3:00 pm
- Nominations sought for Allen County Agriculture Hall of Fame - 3:00 pm
- Allen Metropolitan Housing Authority to meet virtually - 2:21 pm
- Births - 2:20 pm
- Leipsic man admits guilt in touching minor female - 2:18 pm
- Today’s latest updates on the coronavirus pandemic - 2:10 pm
- Leipsic Police Department receives certification - 2:00 pm
- Heritage Trails Park District Board of Commissioners to meet - 1:30 pm
- Police calls - 1:01 pm
- Book discussion planned at Putnam Co. library - 1:00 pm
- Delphos man headed to prison for sexual conduct with minor - 12:31 pm
- Elida village council to meet Tuesday - 12:30 pm
NEWS

Northwest State Community College releases dean’s list
ARCHBOLD — Northwest State Community College has released its dean’s list for the fall term.Local students making the list include Catelyn...
January 25th, 2021 |

Dungeons & Dragons game day slated for library’s teen club
OTTAWA — The Putnam County District Library offers Teen Events with Erika via Zoom at 4 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 23 via Zoom.This week’s event i...
January 25th, 2021 |

Coughlan makes dean’s list
MARQUETTE, Mich. — Northern Michigan University has released its dean’s list for the fall term.Locally, Ellen Coughlan of Pandora earned h...
January 25th, 2021 |

Home sales up in Ohio in 2020
LIMA — Home sales in Ohio were up in 2020 compared to 2019, according to year-end statistics compiled by Ohio REALTORS.The number of homes sold ...
January 25th, 2021 |

Business creation in Ohio sets record
COLUMBUS — Ohio entrepreneurs have been busy during the pandemic.According to figures released by the Ohio Secretary of State’s Business S...
January 25th, 2021 updated: January 25th, 2021. |
SPORTS

Chiefs roar back from slow start against Bills to return to Super Bowl
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — It took the Kansas City Chiefs five frustrating decades to make their second Super Bowl appearance.Now, the defending ch...
January 24th, 2021 |

Bucs win, Brady going to 10th Super Bowl, Packers coach questioned
GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — Tom Brady has a new team, in a new town. The destination is the same: another Super Bowl.At home, too.The man with six NF...
January 24th, 2021 |

Michigan stops all sports for two weeks
ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — The entire University of Michigan athletic department is pausing after several positive tests for the new COVID-19 varia...
January 24th, 2021 |

Boys basketball: Kalida shuts down Leipsic
KALIDA — With Kalida starter Ayden Warnecke out of the line-up and the Wildcats in dire need of a win after two straight losses, Wildcat head co...
January 23rd, 2021 |
Roundup: Columbus Grove defeats Liberty-Benton in girls basketball
COLUMBUS GROVE — The host Bulldogs outscored No. 8-ranked Division III Liberty-Benton 14-9 in the fourth quarter to earn a 37-33 girls high scho...
January 23rd, 2021 updated: January 23rd, 2021. |

College basketball: Liddell scores 20 in Ohio State win against Wisconsin
MADISON, Wis. — Ohio State is capitalizing on the lack of fans at Big Ten games this season to take down one ranked opponent after another on th...
January 23rd, 2021 |
LIFESTYLE

Monster truck show won’t return to Lima
LIMA — The 4-Wheel Jamboree, which brought 30,000-plus people and $6.5 million in tourism to Lima each year, won’t be returning to the All...
January 22nd, 2021 |

Art exhibits, educational talks and pancakes this weekend
REGION — From learning opportunities to opportunities to have some else cook your breakfast, there are a few options this weekend:• A driv...
January 21st, 2021 |

Inaugural poet Amanda Gorman: ‘Even as we grieved, we grew.’
NEW YORK — The country has a new president and a new literary star. In one of the inauguration’s most talked about moments, poet Amanda Go...
January 21st, 2021 |

Lima’s Crawford Shoes
LIMA — Kenneth Crawford knew what counted when it came to selling shoes — what The Lima News described as “an unwavering attention...
January 19th, 2021 |

Phil Spector, famed music producer and murderer, dies at 81
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Phil Spector, the eccentric and revolutionary music producer who transformed rock music with his “Wall of Sound” ...
January 17th, 2021 |

Real Life Mama: Please go to sleep
Isn’t it amazing how quickly kids can jump from school schedule to holiday break and yet how long it takes to get them back into a school schedu...
January 17th, 2021 |
OPINION

Leonard Pitts Jr.: No way for decent people to ‘unite’ with racism, anti-Semitism or homophobia
It’s been said of Abraham Lincoln that he had a “mystical” devotion to the idea of Union. His conviction that the American states we...
January 24th, 2021 |

Jim Krumel: People are busy making spring travel plans, but should they?
If Dr. Wilfred Ellis had his way, people would be leaving their luggage in the closet.That’s not happening though.More Ohioans are making plans ...
January 24th, 2021 |
Editorial: White supremacist extremists are the nation’s deadliest terror threat
The United States is under serious threat of a terror attack from within. That statement is not panic or hyperbole but is based in the very real attac...
January 23rd, 2021 |

Michael Reagan: With President Joe, it’s divided we stand
Everyone agreed the inauguration ceremony was nice.Lady Gaga was Lady Gaga. Garth Brooks was Garth Brooks.Everyone also agreed President Joe BidenR...
January 23rd, 2021 |

Letter: A very sad day for us all.
Mr. Trump invited people to Washington and promised to march down Pennsylvania Avenue with them to overturn the election. Of course he didn’t ma...
January 23rd, 2021 |
BUSINESS

Dominion Energy awards environmental grants
LIMA — Two Lima area organizations, Girl Scouts of Western Ohio and Ohio Energy & Advanced Manufacturing Center, each recently received $5,0...
January 23rd, 2021 |

Legal-Ease: Impending tax law changes: what to do now
Our local media leaders do their best to provide us with news that is not always related to politics. However, some state and national media treat pol...
January 23rd, 2021 |

Paulding Putnam Electric Cooperative plan investments for 2021
PAULDING — Paulding Putnam Electric Cooperative is planning $4 million in investments focused on system improvements that will directly increase...
January 22nd, 2021 |

Judge Willamowski named Presiding Judge
LIMA — John R. Willamowski, judge with the Third District Court of Appeals in Lima, has been designated as presiding judge of that court for 202...
January 22nd, 2021 |

Versa-Pak receives Ohio Rail Development Commission grant
CELINA — Versa-Pak Ltd. has received an Ohio Rail Development Commission grant for $125,000.That money will be used to help with the expansion o...
January 20th, 2021 |

Federal pandemic unemployment compensation payments issued
COLUMBUS — The Ohio Department of Job and Family Services has begun issuing supplemental weekly $300 Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation ...
January 20th, 2021 |
STATE NEWS

Hearing delayed for Wright-Patt general facing court martial
The Article 32 hearing against a former commander of Air Force Research Lab has been rescheduled to Feb. 8 at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, an Air ...
January 25th, 2021 |

Feds accuse 3 Ohio men of illegally entering U.S. Capitol
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Three more Ohioans have been charged with illegally entering the U.S. Capitol as part of a mob of supporters of former Pre...
January 25th, 2021 |

Ohio JFS security vulnerability may have exposed personal data
Nearly 150 people may have had their personal information exposed by the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services, the agency said Monday.Of the 146...
January 25th, 2021 |

Portman won’t seek reelection in 2022
CINCINNATI — Ohio Sen. Rob Portman said Monday that he won’t seek reelection to a third term in 2022, expressing dismay with the deep part...
January 25th, 2021 updated: January 25th, 2021. |

7 train cars derail on Cincinnati railroad bridge, leak fuel
CINCINNATI — Seven train cars derailed on a railroad bridge in Cincinnati, leaking fuel and bringing down power lines, authorities said. The Cin...
January 24th, 2021 |

Shots fired into home of Ohio health official; no injuries
UPPER ARLINGTON — Shots were fired over the weekend into a home owned by an Ohio health department official, but no one was injured, authorities...
January 24th, 2021 |