Featured events coming up in the Lima region
Max’s Mini Swap
Civic Center to host dance recital
LIMA — Steppin’ Out Dance Center is set to have its 31st showcase with two shows this weekend.
Baseball notebook: Shawnee’s Gallegos tosses gem in relief
OTTAWA – When the test of Carder Daily’s troublesome elbow didn’t go as well as hoped, Shawnee had an answer waiting in the wings.
Unemployment up in Lima area, but so is labor force
COLUMBUS — Allen County’s unemployment rate increased in March, but the labor force grew to its largest levels in a year and a half, according to data released Tuesday by the Ohio Department of Job & Family Services.
Is Taylor Swift’s new album poetry?
NEW YORK — Taylor Swift has released her 11th studio album, “The Tortured Poets Department.”
FirstEnergy paid $300k to nonprofit tied to Huffman
COLUMBUS – At the height of its sweeping Statehouse bribery scheme, FirstEnergy secretly paid $300,000 over five checks to a dark money nonprofit its lobbyist explicitly associated with now-Senate President Matt Huffman, new records show.
Putnam County court records, April 9-18
Putnam County Common Pleas Court
Lima council responds to questions about Haitian community
LIMA — Lima Mayor Sharetta Smith gave a presentation addressing the recent influx of Haitian immigrants to the Lima community at Monday night’s city council meeting.
Lima man who shot at police gets 52-year sentence
LIMA — “This is just unacceptable in a civilized world.”
Ottawa teen admits having sex with 15-year-old
OTTAWA — A Putnam County teenager accepted a sweeping plea offer from prosecutors on Monday and pleaded guilty to engaging in sexual conduct with a minor female and having nude photographs of the female on his cell phone, among other charges.
