Top Stories

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.

Jose Nogueras and David Trinko assign mid-term grades to area high school football teams as they hit the midway point of the 2022 season in the Lima region.

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.

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.

LIMA — Ruel W. Steen was out for a Sunday drive in late August 1939 when he noticed a man along the Pennsylvania Railroad near Elida whose actions he thought “were peculiar.”

COLUMBUS — Ryan Day saw the potential in Cade Stover to become a starter at tight end a long time ago.