Logan County News

A record crowd gathered at the Huntsville Event Center Friday for the annual Indian Lake Area Chamber of Commerce Legislative Luncheon.

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The Logan County Joint Drug Task Force and agents from the Ohio Investigative Unit executed a search warrant at Speedy Mart , 511 South Main Street.

A local man was arrested on multiple charges following a 40-minute pursuit that started in Sidney and ended in rural Logan County late Thursday night.

A high-speed pursuit that started in Sidney at about 10:40 p.m. Thursday has ended in Logan County on Ohio 235, about two miles north of Ohio 47, and one person is in custody.

A local man was arrested on multiple drug-related charges following a traffic stop in Bellefontaine Tuesday afternoon around 4:30. The Logan County Sheriff's Office conducted the traffic stop because the license plate indicated a missing or wanted person.

For over 100 years Boy Scouts of America has been serving American communities, locally the troops of Logan and Champaign Counties are preparing to help local food pantries.

The council discussed allowing the Sidney Apostolic Church to use the Quincy Community Building for Sunday services.

At their work session on Tuesday, the Logan County Commissioners decided not to accept the Logan County Chamber of Commerce's proposal to operate the Logan County Tourist Information Center.

Two local schools placed at the top of the Ohio School Recycling Challenge hosted by the Association of Ohio Recyclers .

LAKEVIEW, Ohio -- A crash involving two commercial vehicles and an SUV has shut down U.S. 33 in Lakeview, according to the Ohio State Highway Patrol.

Four defendants were sentenced and one pled guilty before Logan County Common Pleas Court Judge Mark O'Connor earlier this week.

These are just a few of the words that challenged the eight finalists at the 2012 Logan County Spelling Bee Tuesday at Benjamin Logan Middle School.

Honda is planning to announce a new "major investment" at its Anna plant in Shelby County Wednesday, the company said this morning.

Christopher Yaeger , 34, of Jackson Center, was working at a construction site in Indianapolis when he was arrested by U.S. Marshals and the Shelby County Sheriff's Office Monday morning around nine o'clock. The Shelby County Sheriff's Office reports that Yaeger entered a home on State Route 119 near Jackson Center and took jewelry and a firearm on ... (more)

A Bellefontaine man was found guilty on several felony sex charges in a four-day trial that concluded Friday afternoon in Logan County Common Pleas Court.

Two defendants were sentenced and four pled guilty before Logan County Common Pleas Court Judge Mark O'Connor earlier this week.

Both tracts are located on the southeast part of the city, near Ludlow and Brennan Roads where the new construction for the Bellefontaine City Schools is under way.

Police in Washington Township in Logan County said they arrested a woman after she drove her car onto frozen Indian Lake around 10:45 p.m. Friday.

The Logan County Sheriff's Office reports that Peter Jako , 50, of 2720 Township Road 30, Bellefontaine, was driving a 2000 Jeep Wrangler westbound on Township Road 30 near Township Road 187 when he drove off the left side of the road and rolled over.