Allen County News

A jury acquitted a Lima man Wednesday in the December armed robbery of a local restaurant after less than two hours of deliberations.

Labor Day weekend at the Allen COunty Fairgrounds. Earlier this year organizers of the Kenton Coon Dog Trials announced the event would not be held because of the economy.

John Dillinger's time in Lima may not be documented in the newest movie about the famed bank robber, but residents can at least know that one of their own is in the movie.

Two attorneys have filed a lawsuit seeking $41,510 against a company managed by another lawyer to recover operating expenses to maintain the office building they share.

As the Fire Department honored two of its own Wednesday, officials made a plea with landlords and residents to install and maintain smoke detectors.

A woman charged in the death of her 3-year-old son told investigators a man beat the boy nearly daily.

A Waynesfield, Ohio, man was killed in a single-vehicle crash on I-75 in Allen County's Richland Township late Saturday, the Ohio State Highway Patrol said.

Sheriff Jess Sarber reached for his snub-nosed .38-caliber Colt just as a bullet pierced his left side.

Northbound I-75 was shut down for six hours early Saturday after a tractor-trailer carrying hazardous materials caught fire, the Ohio Highway Patrol said.

A small fire on the roof at the Rudolph Foods facility in Westminster was quickly extinguished, a dispatcher at the Allen County Sheriff's Office said.

Two employees of the Allen County Sanitary Engineering Department were overcome by gas while working in a manhole Wednesday morning.

You set your budget by what you expect in your paycheck. Imagine one dollar out of every 10 not coming in as promised.

Those needing a ride in Allen County may have a new option next year if funding materializes through a grant program.

100 block of West Main Street, Beaverdam - A 25-year-old woman reported Friday a man used a friend of his to check on her at the bar.

With the economy tight and no turnaround expected soon, prisons and jails have begun to look closer at their expenses, including the way they feed their inmates.

Lima police arrested Alexander Rose at 1128 S. Main St. Friday night on local and federal charges.

A 22-year-old Lima man pleaded guilty Wednesday to his role in a January home invasion in which an American Township couple was roused from bed at gunpoint and held hostage for more than 30 minutes while their home was ransacked.

The head of the State Teachers Retirement System had little good news for educators Tuesday.

Sharing observations from his first year and a half as Lima Municipal Court clerk, Ben Diepenbrock joked that he was going to avoid dollars and percentages.

Things go wrong. Whether it is the wrath of a tornado, the fury of a spreading virus or the mad acts of man, we live in a world where bad things can and do happen.