Lima’s Smith shares updates to Rotary
LIMA — Lima Mayor Sharetta Smith told Monday’s Lima Rotary Club meeting the city is still observing a decrease in crime, but an increase in homicides has spurred her into action with other mayors in the state of Ohio.
Investigation continues for missing McGuffey man
MCGUFFEY — The Hardin County Sheriff’s Office is still looking into the case of a missing McGuffey man who disappeared in late March.
Delphos, all Lima Rite Aid locations set to close
LIMA — The list of Rite Aid store closures keeps growing.
CrimeStoppers
LIMA — Area law enforcement officials are looking for information about crimes or people below. The Lima/Allen-Putnam County Crime Stoppers Program offers cash awards of up to $1,000 to anyone who provides anonymous tip information that would lead to the arrest of anyone listed on this page. Please call 419-229-STOP (7867).
Dot’s Pet Center plans grand reopening in Lima
LIMA — Dot’s Pet Store, which closed in March, is celebrating its grand reopening to the public Sunday, Aug. 11 under new ownership and in a new location.
Is paying college athletes charity?
NEW YORK — Three years into the new age of college sports, where athletes are allowed to profit from their successes through name, image and likeness deals, everyone is still trying to find out what the new normal will be.
Harris has America focused on multiracial identity
An election year that was already bitterly partisan has been completely upended by President Joe Biden’s decision to drop out of the 2024 White House race and endorse Vice President Kamala Harris. But it’s not just Harris’s late entry that has electrified things. It’s also the history to be made if the likely Democratic nominee becomes the first female president who is also multiracial.
Technology’s grip on modern life shows dimly lit path of digital landmines
SAN FRANCISCO — “Move fast and break things,” a high-tech mantra popularized 20 years ago by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, was supposed to be a rallying cry for game-changing innovation. It now seems more like an elegy for a society perched on a digital foundation too fragile to withstand a defective software program that was supposed to help protect computers — not crash them.
Moreno campaigns as outsider despite family’s wealth, political connections
COLUMBUS — Bernie Moreno was ready with a quip when a radio host in his native Colombia asked why he would want to trade his successful professional and personal life in Ohio for the toils of the U.S. Senate.
Road construction and maintenance projects
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