Allen County News

He was born July 26, 1927, in Allen County to Cloyd and Mildred Hochstettler Schick, who preceded him in death.

The Lima News went fishing through voting records last week to see if the people who will be asking for your vote this year actually take the time to vote themselves.

He was born Aug. 2, 1931, in Bluffton to Alfred and Marion Armentrout Muller. On July 25, 1960, he married Diane Ackerman, who survives.

Police calls as of 10:50 a.m. Feb. 10 from the Allen County Sheriff's Office, Lima Police Department and the Shawnee Township Police Department: 3100 block of West Elm Street, Lima - On Thursday, a woman reported someone broke into her car and stole items.

The Veterans Memorial Civic Center is preparing for a busy weekend without three staff members.

A new organization is taking on a host of issues impacting the Allen County community, and today Indiana's NewsCenter tagged along as they were taken on a private tour of the courthouse.

Six of the seven candidates vying for two of the three seats on the Allen County Board of Commissioners pledged leadership of fiscal restraint Thursday while taking turns addressing the county's tea party organization.

An overhaul for a $600 million taxpayer-subsidized day care program will be less susceptible to abuse than the old paper billing system, state officials say, but some JFS directors say it doesn't go far enough to stop fraud.

A second Lima-area teenager changed his plea in a sexual assault case, pleading guilty Thursday in Allen County Juvenile Court to delinquency by rape, a first-degree felony.

ALLEN COUNTY Last year, the Allen Soil and Water Conservation District tree sale provided more than 13,000 trees to property owners in Allen County.

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Feathers died unexpectedly on Jan. 24. The Allen County Republican Committee has until March 14 to appoint Feathers' replacement on council from eligible ward residents.

If an international corporation builds the wind farm north of Wapa-koneta, the towers and blades will stretch more than 40 stories into the sky - visible to people as far away as three miles, members of a new local group say - and they believe local people should have input regarding if the project should proceed or stop.

LIMA The 3rd District Court of Appeals has upheld a lower court's ruling that keeps a south side convenience store open that prosecutors wanted to close for alleged drug dealing outside.

Three area entities earned clean audits, according to filings released this morning by the Ohio Auditor of State's office.

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St. John's fifth-grader Lanna Klausing, above, took second place at the Allen County Spelling Bee at The Ohio State University at Lima Saturday.

Human trafficking used to be an issue associated with exotic locales abroad. It was something that happened in major urban centers.

LIMA The Humane Society of Allen County's animal-food voucher program has provided more than 57 vouchers a month to participants screened by the West Ohio Food Bank since it began in November.

Lima The Northwest Ohio Beekeeping Association will hold a workshop for people interested in getting started with beekeeping.