COLUMBUS – The Ohio Peace Officer Training Commission has unanimously approved recommendations put forth by Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost’s Blue Ribbon Task Force on the Future of Police Training, ...

Trinity Friends Church, in partnership with the Ohio Christian Education Network (OCEN) and Center for Christian Virtue (CCV), opened Kingdom Connection Academy (KCA) on Tuesday, welcoming students in ...

COLUMBUS — Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost has announced the formation of a blue-ribbon task force to examine the future of police training in Ohio, exploring how best to create and deliver ...

It’s not completely finished, but the Van Wert National Bank clock is back in its familiar spot. Earlier this week, employees of Smith’s Bell and Clock Service of Camby, Indiana, began the process of ...

Here are this year’s high school football broadcast schedules for radio stations 99.7FM WKSD and WERT 1220AM/104.3FM. WKSD will once again offer a variety of the top games from Paulding and Van Wert ...

46 years ago today is when all of Ohio was in the second day of the worst winter storm in the state’s history. It’s now known as the infamous “Blizzard of 1978” and it literally paralyzed the entire ...

COLUMBUS — Last week, Governor Mike DeWine joined members of the Ohio Juvenile Justice Working Group to announce the recommendations for significant changes to Ohio’s state and local juvenile justice ...

An Auglaize County man was sentenced to prison in Van Wert County Common Pleas Court on sex-related charges. Sean Lederer, 48, of New Hampshire, was sentenced to 10 years in prison on a charge of rape ...

A service outage affected local Spectrum cable customers on Monday. The outage began during the mid-afternoon hours and continued into early evening, with most customers seeing a message that said ...

12:50 a.m. – Deputies responded to a residence on Lincoln Highway in Pleasant Township to assist a resident. 4:53 a.m. – Deputies responded to an area of Dutch John Road in Union Township for a motor ...

A Lima man was sentenced to prison on sex-related counts this week in Van Wert County Common Pleas Court. Duane Young Jr., 52, was sentenced to 60 months in prison, with credit for 100 days already ...

PAULDING — All aboard, as readers travel through a brief history of Paulding County’s railroads and some of the communities that sprang up beside them. Over time, the names of the railroad companies ...