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Earlier this week we broke down the numbers of some of the top pitchers in the Great Lakes Summer Collegiate League at the season’s midpoint.

LIMA – On Sunday evening at Simmons Field, the Lima Locos turned in their best all-around effort of the summer, resulting in an 11-2 victory over first-place Hamilton in the finale of a three-game series.

WAPKONETA — The Ohio State Highway Patrol will conduct an OVI checkpoint from 7 to 9 p.m. Friay on county Road 25A in Auglaize County.

ATLANTA — A raspy and sometimes halting President Joe Biden tried repeatedly to confront Donald Trump in their first debate ahead of the November election, as his Republican rival countered Biden’s criticism by leaning into falsehoods about the economy, illegal immigration and his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection.

LIMA — A Lima man with a lengthy history of criminal convictions was sentenced Thursday to seven years in prison after pleading guilty earlier this month to a first-degree felony count of rape.

LIMA — A Lima woman who provided cocaine laced with fentanyl that investigators say ultimately led to the accidental overdose death last year of a 49-year-old Lima man was sentenced Thursday to a minimum of 10 years behind bars.

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LIMA — A 75-year-old Lima man who admitted through his guilty plea earlier this year that he sexually assaulted a young girl nearly 10 years ago was sentenced Thursday to seven years in prison.

LIMA — Allen County Common Pleas Court jurors heard from Lima Municipal Court Administrator Lisa Deters, Lima Police Det. Sgt. Jason Garlock and Dexter Thompson during the third day of Thompson’s jury trial Thursday over allegations of improper sexual conduct between him and probationers during his tenure as a Lima Municipal Court probation officer.

OTTAWA — Brandi Shrader said children participating in the Bred and Fed animal shows at the Putnam County Fair put in hours of prep work to get their projects ready to be judged.