State Wire Archives - The Lima News

Ethiopian diaspora torn by ethnic tensions in Tigray war

Thousands of miles away from the war in Ethiopia, the ethnic cracks have started to show in an Ethiopian church in Ohio, in a lawsuit between trustees...

January 16th, 2022 |

Ohio Redistricting Commission to meet Tuesday to take up state legislative maps ahead of Supreme Court deadline

COLUMBUS — The Ohio Redistricting Commission will meet Tuesday to begin the process of redrawing the state’s House and Senate district map...

January 16th, 2022 |

Great Train Show chugs into Ohio Expo Center

Trevor Clark has collected model trains since he was a child. Now, the 50-year-old man from North Lewisburg in Champaign County has more than 100 comp...

January 15th, 2022 |

Prosecutors seek to dismiss some murder counts

Less than three weeks before the start of jury selection for former doctor William Husel’s murder trial, Franklin County prosecutors appear pois...

January 15th, 2022 |

GOP Ohio congressional delegation wants chip law funded

COLUMBUS, Ohio — GOP members of the Ohio congressional delegation Friday asked House and Senate leaders to fully fund a law meant to address a g...

January 15th, 2022 |

Court: Consider juror bias claims for Lima man on death row

CINCINNATI — The claims of juror bias by an Ohio death row inmate who killed two girls in a robbery including a 3-year-old can be further explor...

January 14th, 2022 updated: January 14th, 2022. |

Former employees agree to repay Columbus Zoo

The Columbus Zoo and Aquarium and its former chief financial officer have reached an agreement to repay the zoo after he and other executives were fou...

January 14th, 2022 updated: January 14th, 2022. |

Cremated remains of at least 89 people found at Akron church

State investigators this week seized what appear to be cremated remains of at least 89 people from the abandoned Akron church of Shawnte Hardin, who w...

January 14th, 2022 updated: January 14th, 2022. |