Rawson News

A Rawson man is dead after flipping his car in Hancock County yesterday. Officials say James J. Smith II, 38, was eastbound on county road 313 when he went off the right side the road, overcorrected and lost control.

A Rawson, Ohio man died Tuesday night in a one-vehicle rollover accident near this western Hancock County village.

Findlay City Schools will be closed on Thursday and Friday for Thanksgiving, as will Arcadia, Arlington and Cory-Rawson schools.

For Holly Reinbolt, Wednesday will be an easy day: there will be only about 750 meals to cook.

By LINSEY MAUGHAN STAFF WRITER The Hancock County Board of Elections certified most election results Tuesday, but one village race will require a recount, and a school board contest may need one.

By DENISE GRANT Staff Writer Cell phones worry educators, and "sexting" makes them cringe.

By ERIC SCHAADT Staff Writer MOUNT CORY -- An early Sunday morning fire destroyed a vacant Mount Cory home that had been struck twice by suspicious fires in 2007.

Two women who died in a trailer fire on Columbus Grove's North Main Street early Saturday morning have been identified.

Hancock County commissioners enjoyed a victory Tuesday night when a sales tax, the third proposed in the past four years, not only passed, but by a 60 percent margin.

Updated voting results on Findlay, Hancock County, and Findlay City Schools tax issues will be available tonight on The Courier's Web site and at The Courier's InfoLINE telephone service.

Two females died in a trailer fire reported at 1:54 a.m. Saturday on Columbus Grove's North Main Street across from Jennings-Gomer Equity's grain elevator.

A two-vehicle crash at Hancock County 313 and County 26 left five people injured Friday afternoon.

The American Cancer Society's 18th annual Festival of Trees will be held at 7 p.m. Saturday, Nov.

GLANDORF a ' The Kalida Lady Wildcats sat in wait during the opening Division II sectional soccer contest at Titan Field in Glandorf on Monday evening.

Fire destroyed a large storage building in Eagle Township early Saturday, causing more than $200,000 in damage.

Two people were taken to the hospital following a fire at a log cabin at 4498 Union Township 25 near Rawson Tuesday morning.

By DENISE GRANT Staff Writer Local school officials are leaving it up to teachers to decide whether President Barack Obama's address to the nation's children will be seen by their students today.

By LOU WILIN STAFF WRITER Thursday was show time for about 100 kids, ages 9 through 18, who took turns walking into the show arena at the Hancock County Fair with their dairy feeder steers.

By JOY BROWN STAFF WRITER A quiet, leisurely stroll up the midway on the first afternoon of the Hancock County Fair served as a counterpoint to the intensity inside barns and buildings.

A total of 15 Hancock County teens will compete today for the title of Junior Fair king and queen at the 2009 Hancock County Fair.