BREAKING NEWS

Today’s latest updates on the coronavirus pandemic

• COVID-19 cases, deathsAllen County: Cases: 211. Deaths: 32. Updated 2 p.m. 5/30/20Auglaize County: Cases: 73. Deaths: 3. Updated: 2 p.m. 5/30/...

May 30th, 2020 |

NEWS

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US cities clean up, prepare for another night of unrest

6:26 pm |

Ottoville’s Horstman scores perfect on ACT — twice!

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June, July look to be warmer, wetter than normal

5:11 pm |

Jim Krumel: No hugs from grandma for baby Oliver

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Today’s latest updates on the coronavirus pandemic

9:00 am |

Red Cross blood donation scheduled in New Bremen

Today’s Lima News Daily Briefing

Here are today’s top stories from The Lima News for Sunday, May 31.Protesters marched from Mercy Health to the Lima police station Saturday afte...

May 31st, 2020 |

Anger swallows Columbus

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Nana Watson stood at the intersection of Broad and High streets after dark Thursday night with her heart in her throat and tear...

May 30th, 2020 |

Hemp vs. pot: $1 million later, problems still exist

LIMA – One year and one million dollars later, new equipment is in place at Ohio Bureau of Criminal Identification laboratories to resolve testi...

May 30th, 2020 |

Ohio rejected 5,500 ballots

COLUMBUS, Ohio — About 5,500 ballots that were cast in person on Ohio’s delayed primary election were not counted because the voters were ...

May 30th, 2020 |

Lima sees peaceful protest

LIMA — Protesters marched from Mercy Health-St. Rita’s Medical Center on West Market Street east to the Lima police station, Saturday afte...

May 30th, 2020 |

County Fairs have a roadmap to opening

LIMA — Ohio county fairs now have some guidance as to how they might operate during the COVID-19 pandemic.On Thursday, Governor Mike DeWine unve...

May 30th, 2020 |

SPORTS

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Updated: 5:49 pm. |

Mayfield buying into Kevin Stefanski’s program

3:33 pm |

Should Ohio put every team in the playoffs?

9:39 pm |

NASCAR: Charlotte run buoys Stenhouse

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. |

Switch should benefit Ohio State’s Browning

COLUMBUS — Baron Browning is one of two defensive five-stars left from Ohio State football’s No. 2 rated 2017 recruiting class.Browning ca...

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

Lima area sports calendar

Note: Events may be canceled due to coronavirus outbreak. Each week, The Lima News publishes a calendar of events of local interest. Events should be ...

May 29th, 2020 |

MULTIMEDIA - PHOTO STORE

LIFESTYLE

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Brenda and Anthony Wilkerson

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Festival season: A guide to summer events

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Real Life Mama: Feeling neighborly

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 |

Get This: Snake interrupts New Mexico elementary school Zoom lesson

LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) — A New Mexico elementary school teacher on Zoom with students had a lesson interrupted thanks to an uninvited guest: a bu...

May 29th, 2020 |

OPINION

7:17 pm |

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

7:00 pm |

Letter: Flirting with another lockup

5:11 pm |

Jim Krumel: No hugs from grandma for baby Oliver

Leonard Pitts Jr.: A message only a president can send

Always before, there have been words. Always before, someone crafted them with writerly skill and gave them to the president to give to us. Always, be...

May 30th, 2020 |

Letter: A ‘snake pit’ in the making

An investor has purchased property at 1105 E. Market, the former “Longfellow School Site.”A meeting was held last week to change the varia...

May 30th, 2020 |

Commentary: White people need to speak out against senseless killings of black people

As a child, I grew up in abject poverty with our family being evicted often. A number of times I found myself in a poor African American neighborhoods...

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 |

Column: A GOP smackdown at Ohio Statehouse?

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Freshman state Rep. Jon Cross, a Republican from Kenton, wanted to make one thing clear just before Memorial Day.“I’...

May 30th, 2020 |

BUSINESS

10:30 am |

Land transfers, May 21-27

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IAC recognizes Bluffton Hospital, Cardiopulmonary

10:19 am |

Schroeder reelected to AgCredit’s board of directors

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 |