Ohio News

A town business owner and non-profit leader was named Citizen of the Year during the Buckeye Valley Chamber of Commerce's 81st Annual Community Awards Banquet this month.

The R.A. Sapp Library in Wyanet is gearing up for its summer reading program. Join in on the fun every Monday in June at 2 p.m. The line up of events include: • June 4: Misty Swift will explore ways to stay fit in an ever-changing world, using music, puppets and storytelling.

Albert W. Kulupka, 87, of 105 Prairie St., Spring Valley, died at 2:55 a.m. Wednesday, May 16, 2012, at Manor Court of Princeton, where he had been a resident for the past two years.

Ohio's Republican governor signed legislation Tuesday to get rid of a contentious new election law that Democrats and others have been trying to get voters in the presidential battleground state to overturn.

In a press release issued Tuesday, Bureau County Sheriff John Thompson said the Tri-County Drug Enforcement Narcotic Team arrested Justin J. Hopson, 32, of Ohio, Ill., on May 8 on the Class 3 felony of unlawful delivery of a controlled substance, psilocybin mushrooms, and arrested Hopson's wife, Eva K. Hopson, 25, on the Class 3 felony of unlawful ... (more)

Samuel and Julia Slaight of Ohio, Ill., are announcing the engagement and approaching marriage of their daughter, Shannon Marie Slaight of Normal, to Derek Alan Brown of Normal, the son of Larry and Kim Brown of Pekin.