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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.

‘LOST. RECOVERED. REBORN’ opening reception

WESTON — A farmer was killed in an apparent accident in a farm field on Tuesday, according to the Wood County Sheriff’s Office.

LIMA — Cleveland-based artist M. Carmen Lane will be at the Farmer Family Gallery to open her show Migrations at a gallery reception from 4-6 p.m., Thursday, October 27.

LIMA — The Ohio State University Men’s Glee Club and Women’s Glee Club will visit The Ohio State University at Lima for a community concert at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, November 17, 2022, in the Martha W. Farmer Theatre for the Performing Arts in Reed Hall.

MARIA STEIN — Local artist Shega will get the chance to see whether she wins multiple KMA Music Awards this November.