Top Stories

PARIS — Paris Olympics organizers apologized Sunday to anyone who was offended by a tableau that evoked Leonardo da Vinci’s “The Last Supper” during the glamorous opening ceremony.

LIMA — There are many options for families when it comes to finding something enjoyable to do on a sunny summer Saturday, and organizers hope that Saturday’s Party at the Pangle will put downtown Lima on the top of that list.

CHICO, Calif. — Thousands of firefighters were battling a wildfire in northern California on Saturday that exploded in size, scorching an area about the size of Los Angeles — one of several blazes tearing through the western United States and Canada amid dry, hot and windy conditions.

COLUMBUS (AP) — A new Ohio law will require automatic external defibrillators, or AEDs, to be placed in nearly every school or sports and recreation venue in the state, a change prompted by the sudden cardiac arrest of Buffalo Bills player Damar Hamlin during a Monday Night Football game in Cincinnati last year.

WASHINGTON (AP) — In a fresh broadside against one of the world’s most popular technology companies, the Justice Department is accusing TikTok of harnessing the capability to gather bulk information on users based on views on divisive social issues like gun control, abortion and religion.

The trend of the real estate market in Allen County is shown by the following report, for the week running July 18 through 24. Figures reflect the selling price of the property, along with the address or lot number of same and are courtesy of Allen County Recorder Mona Losh’s Office.

A lot of people like to celebrate big life events while consuming alcohol. Most of the time the alcohol is not consumed at an individual’s house and is instead consumed at a bar, restaurant or a friend’s house during a party.

I spend more time parsing my words and thoughts for total strangers than I do for my wife.

LIMA — Messages of sympathy have been growing on social media as news spread of the early Friday morning death of Harry Shutt, a man whose name is synonymous with Kewpee Hamburgers in Lima.

LIMA — There’s a “crisis” with Lima’s rental housing, people who work with disgruntled renters say, but there’s little they can do immediately to fix substandard housing.