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VAN WERT — From the challenge of beating Bobby Flay to the quirkiness of “Guys Grocery Games,” cooking shows are prevalent across the television spectrum.

LIMA — More than 800 fish now have a new home at Schoonover Lake. St. Mary’s Fish Hatchery filled the lake with catfish on Wednesday morning following the Mayor’s conference.

LIMA — The Ohio Theatre Lima announced the soft opening of the Stage Door Canteen & Cabaret. This exciting new “Big City Style” venue is a piano bar and performance space that will offer handcrafted cocktails and international “Bar Foods” alongside nightly piano players and a singing staff (and sometimes singing audience members!)

OREGON, Ohio — A fire at an oil refinery near Toledo killed two people, and the facility was shut down Wednesday, officials said.

LIMA — Witness testimony began in the trial of a man charged in an armed robbery and assault of another man in May.

BATH TOWNSHIP — One person is dead after a single-vehicle crash Tuesday morning on Interstate 75, according to the Ohio State Highway Patrol.

LIMA — Kimberly Battle waited 11 months for someone to face charges for her daughter’s death. When that day finally came, Battle was disappointed to learn that the woman charged in that incident was charged with a single count of reckless homicide, a third-degree felony that carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison and a $10,000 fine.

HARROD — Allen East school board met at their regularly scheduled meeting in the auditeria at the school, looking to address an issue that is likely close to the heart of every parent in that district.

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LIMA — Six area counties saw unemployment rise with two remaining the same and one moving down. Allen County led the area with a 0.2-percent increase in the area moving from 4.3 in July to 4.5 in August, placing Allen County at the 35th highest out of 88 counties for unemployment rate.