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LIMA — The Lima Fire Department men and women were honored for their response to a collision at the Mayor’s Press Conference Wednesday afternoon. The nine-vehicle crash took place near Exit 125 on Interstate 75 on Sept. 4. The accident resulted in one fatality and several injuries.

LIMA — Two people were hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries after a shooting Wednesday night in Lima.

Oct. 20

Putnam County Common Pleas Court

LIMA — A Lima man currently serving an unrelated prison sentence for robbery changed his plea to guilty for one murder charge in Allen County Common Pleas Court on Wednesday.

LIMA — Autopsy and DNA test results were shown to the jury while testimony continued Wednesday at the trial of a man accused of killing and burying a woman at Martin Luther King Park in 2020.

WAPAKONETA — The former superintendent of the City of Wapakoneta’s engineering department testified Wednesday during the trial of Wapakoneta Mayor Thomas Stinebaugh that she had “serious reservations” when the mayor ordered the construction of a sewer line — at city expense and contrary to previous departmental recommendations — to service a home he was constructing on Fairfield Drive in 2018.

LIMA — A vacant house was rendered a total loss after a fire late Tuesday night in Lima.

COLUMBUS (AP) — Ohio law does not permit voters to return absentee ballots at their precincts on Election Day, the state’s elections chief is cautioning amid a misinformation campaign around the security of voting machines that’s urging them to do so.

LIMA — Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness were written in the Declaration of Independence at the beginning of the United States. Many new and innovative ideas have been birthed from those who had opportunities including the Wright Brothers. Two Dayton, Ohio natives who pursued a dream to fly.