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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve extended its fight against high inflation Wednesday by raising its key interest rate by a quarter-point, its eighth hike since March. And the Fed signaled that even though inflation is easing, it remains high enough to require further rate hikes.

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CELINA — The Mercer County Sheriff’s Office is requesting the public’s help in locating a missing person.

LIMA — Three weeks ago, on a Saturday afternoon, the police department called Lima City Park’s Chief Ranger Randy Kohli. A hawk was found in Lima’s downtown square. Birds from time to time fly into the glass on the outside of the Lima Municipal Center at the corner of Main and Market streets.

SPENCERVILLE — Spencerville Mayor Phil Briggs is currently being held in the Allen County Jail after being arrested Monday on a charge of pandering obscenity involving a minor, according to a release from the Allen County Sheriff’s Office.

WAPAKONETA — A Wapakoneta man has been indicted on charges of rape and gross sexual imposition involving two girls under the age of 10.

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Gov. Mike DeWine, in his State of the State address on Tuesday, laid out a wide-ranging spending plan to help Ohio children, from expanding childcare and children’s health care to providing more education funding from kindergarten to college.

SEATTLE — Boeing bids farewell to an icon on Tuesday: It’s delivering its final 747 jumbo jet.

LIMA — Aaron Wilson, who is a state climatologist, an assistant professor of ag weather with OSU Extension, and a principal investigator at the Byrd Polar and Climate Research spoke to students from Lima Senior High School as well as students from South Science and Technology Magnet School in the Martha W. Farmer Theatre for the Performing Arts on the Ohio State-Lima campus as part of the 2023 Fowler Science Series. Wilson spoke on the topic “How weather extremes affect us all.”

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