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LIMA – Travis Bodine cannot remember a time when he wasn’t tinkering with cars.

LIMA — Aaliyah White has endured some of life’s harshest turns and continues to deal with many of them every single day. But none of the setbacks White has experienced over the past three-plus years define who she is. She simply won’t allow it.

LIMA — A Lima man charged in the June 2020 fire of a Shawnee Township home will face a jury in January after a judge denied his request to fire his lawyer.

• There were seven additional deaths attributed to COVID-19 reported in the five-county region in the last seven days, including three in Allen County, one in Hardin County, one in Putnam County and two in Van Wert County, according to the Ohio Department of Health.

Dear Car Talk:

Fifty years after it last appeared in the United States, the 2023 Toyota Crown returns to the U.S. market as a replacement for the 2022 Toyota Avalon, which tried mightily to shed its stodgy image as a geezer pleaser in its final years. Toyota replaces it with a new model that’s oddly traditional, but not conventionally so. Planned with the American market in mind, it’s one of four Crown models sold in Japan.

LIMA — Police are investigating an armed robbery at Jackpot Zone arcade that occurred early Friday morning.

LIMA POLICE DEPARTMENT

Putnam County Common Pleas Court

LIMA — Fierce Aesthetics + Skin & Body Bar at 712 W. North St. has a number of amenities and is expanding its offerings in the near future.