COLUMBUS – The Ohio Peace Officer Training Commission has unanimously approved recommendations put forth by Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost’s Blue Ribbon Task Force on the Future of Police Training, ...

An Auglaize County man was sentenced to prison in Van Wert County Common Pleas Court on sex-related charges. Sean Lederer, 48, of New Hampshire, was sentenced to 10 years in prison on a charge of rape ...

DELPHOS — The Lima Post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol is investigating a Monday night crash that claimed a Delphos resident. According to a report from the Lima Post, the accident occurred just ...

Northwest State Community College has announced plans to offer an innovative “first class free” scholarship for Van Wert and Paulding County and surrounding area students to its Van Wert campus. The ...

Local radio stations 99.7FM WKSD and WERT 1220AM/104.3FM have released tentative broadcast schedules for the 2022 high school football season. WKSD will cover several area teams including Paulding, ...

Trinity Friends Church, in partnership with the Ohio Christian Education Network (OCEN) and Center for Christian Virtue (CCV), opened Kingdom Connection Academy (KCA) on Tuesday, welcoming students in ...

First Federal of Van Wert has announced the launch of a second location in Van Wert. The branch will be located at 820 N. Washington St. and will provide customers and community with increased ...

Days after being placed on leave, longtime Brumback Library Director John Carr has indicated he plans to retire. According to a statement issued by the library’s Board of Trustees, he informed the ...

A service outage affected local Spectrum cable customers on Monday. The outage began during the mid-afternoon hours and continued into early evening, with most customers seeing a message that said ...

COLUMBUS — Governor Mike DeWine has announced he will nominate Andy Wilson as the next Director of the Ohio Department of Public Safety. Formerly the Clark County Prosecuting Attorney, Wilson ...

46 years ago today is when all of Ohio was in the second day of the worst winter storm in the state’s history. It’s now known as the infamous “Blizzard of 1978” and it literally paralyzed the entire ...

COLUMBUS – The Ohio Department of Job and Family Services is working to complete the distribution of full November Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits by the middle of this week.