BREAKING NEWS

---

Today’s latest updates on the coronavirus pandemic

• COVID-19 cases, deathsAllen County: Cases: 212. Deaths: 33. Updated 2 p.m. 6/1/20Auglaize County: Cases: 72. Deaths: 3. Updated: 2 p.m. 6/1/20...

June 1st, 2020 updated: June 1st, 2020. |  

---

NEWS

---

Ron Fails: Still waiting on meaningful change in Lima

The black population in the United States is 47.8 million, which is approximately 14.6% of the total population.In the U.S., African Americans are 2.5...

June 1st, 2020 updated: June 1st, 2020. |  

---

Today’s latest updates on the coronavirus pandemic

• COVID-19 cases, deathsAllen County: Cases: 212. Deaths: 33. Updated 2 p.m. 6/1/20Auglaize County: Cases: 72. Deaths: 3. Updated: 2 p.m. 6/1/20...

June 1st, 2020 updated: June 1st, 2020. |  

---

Police calls

LIMA POLICE2400 block of Allentown Road, Lima — A shoplifting incident was reported Sunday.South Main Street at West Market Street, Lima —...

June 1st, 2020 |  

---

Today’s Lima News Daily Briefing

Here are today’s top stories from The Lima News for Monday, June 1.Protests continued across the nation over the death of black man George Floyd...

June 1st, 2020 |  

---

Vacation season arrives with questions

LIMA — COVID-19 continues to play havoc with many people’s vacation and travel plans as we head into the two busiest summer months for tra...

May 31st, 2020 |  

---

SPORTS

---

Should Ohio put every team in the playoffs?

The recent decision by the Ohio High School Athletic Association to expand its high school football playoffs drew reactions that ranged from applause ...

May 31st, 2020 |  

---

NASCAR: Charlotte run buoys Stenhouse

BRISTOL, Tenn. — Ricky Stenhouse Jr. could not have had a bumpier return to racing after NASCAR’s 10-week shutdown.How bad was it? Stenhou...

May 30th, 2020 |  

---

Lima area golf course capsules

Arrowhead ParkCourse status: PublicAddress: 2211 Dirksen Road, Minster Road, MinsterPhone: 419-628-3111Golf facilities: 18 holes, driving rangeGreens ...

May 30th, 2020 updated: May 30th, 2020. |  

---

Hershiser remains estranged from Bowling Green State University

BOWLING GREEN — On the recent afternoon Bowling Green State University eliminated baseball, I tried to reach out to the program’s most pro...

May 30th, 2020 |  

---

Golf plays through pandemic

The rules of golf remain unchanged. But the rules golf courses must follow have changed dramatically in response to the coronavirus pandemic.The pande...

May 30th, 2020 updated: May 30th, 2020. |  

---

Lima Warriors call off season

LIMA — The Lima Warriors semi-professional football team has called off its 2020 season due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Warriors plan to retur...

May 29th, 2020 updated: May 30th, 2020. |  

---

MULTIMEDIA - PHOTO STORE

---

LIFESTYLE

---

Real Life Mama: Feeling neighborly

By this time every year, we pretty much have every weekend of the summer planned out. From vacation to graduation parties, Country Concert, lake trips...

May 30th, 2020 |  

---

Brenda and Anthony Wilkerson

LIMA — Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Wilkerson are celebrating 30 years of marriage.Wilkerson and the former Brenda Jennings were married May 26, 1990, a...

May 30th, 2020 |  

---

David Trinko: An introvert celebrates social distancing

Everyone should be 6 feet apart? Don’t touch other people? You don’t have to shake hands?It turns out I’ve been practicing social di...

May 30th, 2020 |  

---

Lima Public Library Book Reviews

FictionThe American Fiancée by Eric DupontOver the course of the 20th century, three generations of the Lamontagnes will weather love, passion, j...

May 30th, 2020 |  

---

Births

Lima Memorial Health SystemMay 20 — Courtney and Chris Huffer, Lima, boy.May 21 — Kelsey Lutz, Kenton, boy; Kailynn Matthews, St. Marys, b...

May 29th, 2020 |  

---

On Lady Gaga’s new ‘Chromatica’ album, a star is reborn on the dance floor

Lady Gaga released her new album, “Chromatica,” on Thursday night, marking a pronounced return to the sleek dance-pop sound that made her ...

May 29th, 2020 |  

---

OPINION

---

Clarence Page: George Floyd’s death brings back an old familiar rage

As I watched the fires in the night leap skyward over Minneapolis and watched the protest marchers pour into other streets across the nation, I was re...

June 1st, 2020 |  

---

Editorial: Live audio from the Supreme Court? Now, let’s have video

The U.S. Supreme Court has been making history lately, and not by the usual method of issuing decisions in important constitutional cases. The coronav...

May 31st, 2020 |  

---

Ron Grossman: Americans have never liked being told what to do

Long before armed opponents of Michigan’s quarantine marched on its state Capitol, a similarly vexatious problem landed on the desk of a newly i...

May 31st, 2020 |  

---

Letter: Flirting with another lockup

Even though I am a strong conservative in my beliefs, I still don’t like big government telling me how to live or run my life. I do believe in G...

May 31st, 2020 |  

---

Jim Krumel: No hugs from grandma for baby Oliver

This was supposed to be “the year” for Tina Rieman.Two big things were on her calendar involving each of her two children.In May, her daug...

May 31st, 2020 |  

---

BUSINESS

---

Home loan rates

Rates for 30-year and 15-year, fixed-rate mortgages with zero points as of noon, Friday, May 22, 2020:30 YR / 15 YR RATE %State Bank3.00/2.50%Superior...

May 30th, 2020 |  

---

Legal-Ease: Standards for government agents other than law enforcement

Last week presented us with one of the starkest contrasts in the actions of government agents in recent memory. In Minnesota, a man was suffocated to ...

May 30th, 2020 |  

---

Small business series moves online

LIMA — The Walter C. Potts Entrepreneur Center’s small business information series will resume online June 2.Series schedule:June 2: Launc...

May 29th, 2020 |  

---

Ottawa’s Red Pig Inn gets a makeover

OTTAWA — There’s always a twinge of danger when you try to change an icon. Even if it’s the “Pig.”The new owners of the ...

May 28th, 2020 updated: May 28th, 2020. |  

---

Unemployment hits new highs in April

EAST LIBERTY — Some 7,200 people here in Logan County were out of work in April, a number that was bumped up considerably by Honda’s manuf...

May 27th, 2020 updated: May 27th, 2020. |  

---

For the first time, woman is top paid CEO

For the first time since the AP’s annual pay survey began in 2011, a woman is at the top of the list: Lisa Su of Advanced Micro Devices. She had...

May 27th, 2020 |  

---

STATE NEWS

---

Ex-Cuyahoga Falls officer in prison for sexual assault wins early release

A former Cuyahoga Falls police officer who sexually assaulted a woman was granted early release from prison Monday after serving about seven months of...

June 1st, 2020 |  

---

Ohio cutting pay for supervisors, seeking trims for union workers

The state is imposing salary reductions on nonunion employees and asking bargaining units for union workers to consider pay cuts or a freeze to deal w...

June 1st, 2020 |  

---

‘Master Thief’ burglar hopes to catch break on sentence

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A self-described “master thief” career criminal is hoping to catch a break on his prison sentence from burglar...

May 28th, 2020 |  

---

Ohio ranks high with 65% completing census 2020 so far

CLEVELAND, Ohio - Coronavirus-related restrictions came to Ohio in March about the same time census 2020 questionnaires and instructions were landing ...

May 27th, 2020 |  

---

Ohio Senate passes bill restricting elections changes

COLUMBUS, Ohio — The Ohio Senate on Wednesday passed a bill that would prevent any state official from changing the time, place or manner of the...

May 27th, 2020 |  

---

Ohio eliminates jobs at state police training academy

CLEVELAND (AP) — The Ohio attorney general has eliminated 39 jobs at the state’s police officer training academy outside Columbus as it re...

May 27th, 2020 |  

---

E-EDITION AND SPECIAL SECTIONS

---