Putnam County News

Pioneer Days has been around quite awhile. Actually, that's an understatement. Pioneer Days has been around 136 years, which is "quite awhile" plus some.

An unfunded mandate is how representatives from Premier Health Care Service Inc.

Steve Dickman said he finds it interesting how the media have changed the presidential election and campaigning.

The Spiritual & Emotional Health Committee of Putnam County Long-Term Recovery Task Force would like to thank those who attended and helped to make the Community Flood Anniversary Celebration on Sunday a ...

Blame a sagging economy and high gas prices, but fewer motorists are expected to hit the roadways this Labor Day weekend.

An Ottawa resident died in an industrial accident at the Hirzel Canning Co. here Tuesday morning.

An Ottawa man was killed Tuesday morning in an industrial accident at a Putnam County canning company.

Hirzel Canning Company reports that an employee was injured Tuesday during routine canning production at the Ottawa facility in Putnam County.

Ohio Highway Patrol troopers continue to investigate a one-vehicle crash on Putnam County Road H which resulted in the death of a Continental man Saturday afternoon.

People who live in the Village of Ottawa can't forget last summer when their neighborhoods were swamped with floods.

A 60-year-old Continental man died when he drove off the side of a road and struck a ditch, according to the Lima post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol.

' Fort Jennings native Aryana Brown, 13, grew up in a farming family. Though Brown has moved to the Elida area, the family farm near Fort Jennings remains home to a 30-hog operation that sets the young ...

After nearly a year of wrangling with the issue, the Putnam County District Library board has chosen a site near the Educational Service Center on Putnam Parkway to construct its new library.

Kenneth Richey is back behind bars in his Scottish homeland on an assault charge just seven months after walking off Ohio's death row into a world he hadn't seen in more than 21 years.

Seven months after walking off Ohio's death row into a world he hadn't seen in more than 21 years, Kenneth Richey is back behind bars in his Scottish homeland.

By ALAINA BUSCH Staff Writer Keno is up and running with a few glitches and some skeptics.

Born on Jan. 14, 1894 in Putnam County, James Morris only went through the third grade in the little one-room schoolhouse there.

A Putnam County woman was shot Tuesday night while walking with her husband along the Little Auglaize River.

Police in Putnam County are investigating what is believed to be an accidental shooting.

A 53-year-old woman was shot in what authorities believe was a target shooting accident Tuesday night near this northwestern Putnam County community, the county sheriff's office said.