Ohio City News

A proposal made by Ohio Gov. John Kasich and Bureau of Workers' Compensation Administrator/CEO Steve Buehrer would return more than $300,000 to governments and schools in Van Wert County and $112.8 million statewide.

The possibilities of a Van Wert Aquatic Center are back on the table as Van Wert City Council introduced a resolution for the construction and design of the aquatic center in Monday evening's Parks and Recreation committee meeting.

Jillian Braganza of the William Busta Gallery, right, speaks to Zivile Khoury Saturday at the NOADA ARTExpo 2013 at the Transformer Station in Ohio City.

Members of the Van Wert Police Department, the Van Wert County Sheriff's Office, the Convoy Police Department, and the Ohio City Police Department received additional training earlier this week when the Ohio Attorney General's new Ohio Police Officer Mobile Training Academy was featured at an event at Vantage Vocational School this week.

There are only a few candidate choices and only a portion of the county voting, but today is Election Day in Van Wert.

A. What the recording industry's putting out is very different, but the cultural forms of hip-hop are artistic and rigorous and disciplined and positive.

A rural Convoy man is dead after hitting a deer while riding the motorcycle he had just purchased that day.

Diana Cohen, concertmaster of the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, right, and her father, Franklin Cohen, principal clarinet of the Cleveland Orchestra, are co-directors of ChamberFest Cleveland, which presents its second festival in June at venues around town.

Amanda Dempsey, architect of the West Side Market's successful Centennial Celebration last year, will take over the city-owned market's reins as manager at the end of this month.

The West Hill Neighborhood Organization has commissioned two new West Hill flags designed by artist Don Drumm.

Departing longtime Heights Arts Executive Director Peggy Spaeth has been awarded the 2013 Cleveland Arts Prize's Martha Joseph Prize.

An alleged drug house in Ohio City was the subject of a search Tuesday by members of the West Central Ohio Crime Task Force.

Rockport Township was formed in 1819, along the western boundary of Ohio City - which itself lay along the western bank of the Cuyahoga River, across from the city of Cleveland that had been founded several decades earlier.

Van Wert High School held a mock crash Friday afternoon in preparation for their prom on Saturday.

The man who brought the popular Momocho restaurant to Ohio City and the Happy Dog to the Gordon Square Arts District is bringing his talent to Detroit Avenue in Lakewood.

Boris Music's dreams for a new shop, restaurant and Slovenian-style brewery took a step closer to becoming a reality, after a groundbreaking ceremony in Ohio City today.

From left: Great Lakes brewer Joel Wagner, Market Garden brewer Andy Tveekrem and Great Lakes brewer Luke Purcell in the Market Garden Brewhouse.

Plain Dealer photographer Gus Chan shot this photo of an abandoned house in East Cleveland, back in 2000, long before the foreclosure crisis.