Mansfield News

The Farmers Market in the carrousel district in downtown Mansfield continues to grow as fast as the spring produce it offers.

MANSFIELD - The city will go ahead with 20 firefighter layoffs Sunday after the union was unable to secure a court-ordered $600,000 surety bond.

The mothers of two children they say were sexually abused by a 75-year-old man have filed civil lawsuits against five defendants.

A judge ruled Wednesday that the city fire department justified its request to delay layoffs.

Fire officials characterized as suspicious two Monday fires ignited in the yard of 27 Granite St., setting the house's exterior ablaze.

MANSFIELD -- City Council tabled a controversial bill Tuesday that would reduce the number of fire captains from 20 to 12.

Two dogs that were "out of their minds" attacked a city woman Monday night. Richland County Dog Warden Dave Jordan described the scene at 509 Allison Ave.

Police have issued a murder warrant for Adrian Horn for an early morning shooting on Penn Avenue.

The Mansfield Men's Garden Club is moving its monthly meetings from Kingwood Center to the Richland County Fairgrounds.

Mansfield's Freedom Festivtal played host to a number of family-oriented events and hundreds of people on Independence Day at the Richland County Fairgrounds.

ONTARIO -- Gov. Ted Strickland made an unannounced appearance at Ontario's Fourth of July festival Saturday afternoon.

A two-vehicle crash Friday night at the intersection of State Routes 13 and 603 killed a child from Virginia.

A push to save a General Motors Corp. plant is expanding in recession-battered Ohio.

The Mansfield Police Department is gearing up for a high visibility traffic enforcement blitz over the Fourth of July holiday weekend.

The insurance carrier for a Leetonia church damaged by vandals in February 2008 filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the adult teen imprisoned for the crime.

The latest population figures for Richland County, Mansfield and surrounding towns show steady declines.

MANSFIELD -- Twenty-two athletes from the Blessed To Run summer track club placed in the top six last weekend at the Talley Scholarship Invitational at Eastmoor Academy in Columbus.

MANSFIELD - Fair Housing Director Don Mitchell has asked the city to extend him the power to snap up homes off HUD'S online list of foreclosed homes more quickly.

Registration for Music Makers' summer session is open at Richland Academy, 75 N. Walnut St.

MANSFIELD - About 100 local supporters chanted "Save our libraries!" at a rally Friday at Mansfield's main library, decrying proposed deep cuts in state aid to Ohio's public libraries.