Mansfield News

Mansfield's Freedom Festivtal played host to a number of family-oriented events and hundreds of people on Independence Day at the Richland County Fairgrounds.

ONTARIO -- Gov. Ted Strickland made an unannounced appearance at Ontario's Fourth of July festival Saturday afternoon.

A two-vehicle crash Friday night at the intersection of State Routes 13 and 603 killed a child from Virginia.

A push to save a General Motors Corp. plant is expanding in recession-battered Ohio.

The Mansfield Police Department is gearing up for a high visibility traffic enforcement blitz over the Fourth of July holiday weekend.

The insurance carrier for a Leetonia church damaged by vandals in February 2008 filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the adult teen imprisoned for the crime.

The latest population figures for Richland County, Mansfield and surrounding towns show steady declines.

MANSFIELD -- Twenty-two athletes from the Blessed To Run summer track club placed in the top six last weekend at the Talley Scholarship Invitational at Eastmoor Academy in Columbus.

MANSFIELD - Fair Housing Director Don Mitchell has asked the city to extend him the power to snap up homes off HUD'S online list of foreclosed homes more quickly.

Registration for Music Makers' summer session is open at Richland Academy, 75 N. Walnut St.

MANSFIELD - About 100 local supporters chanted "Save our libraries!" at a rally Friday at Mansfield's main library, decrying proposed deep cuts in state aid to Ohio's public libraries.

MANSFIELD -- It was the last North Central Ohio Soap Box Derby race for Brooke Ridenour of Shelby.

Members of the UAW consider themselves brothers and sisters. But when it comes to jobs, that blood bond can still be strained.

MANSFIELD, Ohio a ' The fire department in Mansfield is making cuts because of dwindling money.

MANSFIELD -- For fears, worries and anxiety, Dan Manningham has a solution. The 72-year-old Mansfield man recently published his first Christian book, 'Six Stone Jars,' with Focus Publishers, hoping to share some of his life lessons with readers.

MANSFIELD - A defense bill approved Friday by the U.S. House of Representatives authorizes $11.4 million for Air National Guard facility construction at Mansfield Lahm Airport.

MANSFIELD - Twenty more Mansfield firefighters will be laid off and the Sunset Boulevard fire station closed to cut costs, according to the firefighters union president.

Michel Disdier Shows True Grit with a Wild Ride at Mansfield Motorsports Park Mansfield, OHIO ; June 22, 2009 - - French race car driver Michel Disdier finally got his wish for dry weather on race day and was able to qualify for an ARCA RE/MAX Series start.

MANSFIELD - A man accused of shooting his ex-wife reportedly told a deputy he "snapped." "He said, 'I love her so much, I can't be without her,' " Richland County sheriff's Sgt.

MANSFIELD -- There will be no major changes to the Mansfield postal service processing center, creating a sigh of relief among the area's postal workers.