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LIMA — More than $6,200 was given Monday to local organizations that all have one main focus: youth. The Lima Exchange Club presented 10 different organizations with donations for their hard work and dedication to helping children in the Lima community.

LIMA — The sunny states of North Carolina and Florida will soon be seeing more than 40 young adults from the Lima area as they tour four historically Black colleges/universities.

Three days after receiving a patent for the telephone in 1876, Alexander Graham Bell placed a call to his assistant, Thomas Watson. Here is a transcript of the conversation.

LIMA — Grace Fellowship Church was filled with the energetic Spirit of redemption and delivery as listeners raised their hands and voices in worshipful praise. An African American woman seated within the pews played the tambourine. A woman in her mid-forties hopped in her tan Birkenstocks to the beat of the drums which filled the church. In stark contrast, others seated in the pews sat sad and pensive, perhaps reflecting on their lives. One man rubbed his forehead.

FORT JACKSON, S.C. (AP) — Chaz Andrews has wanted to join the Army since he was 19, but he has failed the service’s academic test more than 10 times over the past decade.

LIMA — Season 12 “America’s Got Talent” performers, The Pompeyo Family – Jorge, his wife Natalya and their two children Isabella, 7, and Katerina, 13 – delighted audiences during the Allen County Fair Saturday with their Pompeyo Family Dogs performance.

LIMA — Following a ruling from the Ohio Supreme Court, a state law that prohibits stopped trains from blocking railroad crossings for more than five minutes can no longer be enforced. According to the court, the statute stood in conflict with federal law.

Maybe I didn’t choose to wear the mascot costume. Maybe it chose me.

Dear God,

BATH TOWNSHIP — A stout defensive effort and a little bit of grit offensively helped Bluffton fend off Bath, 2-0, in a non league affair Saturday.