Morrow County News

Several teenagers who are in the early stages of learning to drive have gotten a unique lesson they can't get on the open road.

A Delaware County deputy sheriff has been charged with sexually molesting a 5-year-old girl left in his care in Marion County.

Former Galion fire lieutenant Brian Brown, 57, is accused of shooting 51-year-old, Shelly Fry three times in the chest and once in the arm, following a domestic dispute.

Shooting victim Shelly Fry, 51, was listed in critical condition this morning, according to the Galion Police Department, after she was shot multiple times Thursday night.

The number of concealed carry licenses issued in Ohio have spiked in the first three months of 2013, nearly doubling the amount issued during the same period last year.

More than 1,800 pounds of medication was collected on Saturday during the Prescription Drug Take Back Event.

Victims of brutal crimes can't erase what happened, but they can erase some of the effects with the Crime Victims Compensation Fund, which has leveled off in recent years after funding dropped by more than $26 million since 2000.

According to the Morrow County Sheriff's Office, the county 911 center received a call Thursday around 6 p.m. that Dalton Wayne Taylor had been shot in the chest at home at 2957 County Road 170.

The Morrow County post of the Ohio Highway Patrol continues to investigate a Marengo crash that seriously injured two teens on Friday afternoon.

Two teens were hospitalized after a crash in Morrow County Friday afternoon. According to the Ohio State Highway Patrol, two vehicles collided near County Road 170 at Township Road 187 near Marengo shortly before 3 p.m. The two males that were injured were taken by medical helicopters to area hospitals.

Deputies are investigating the fatal shooting of a 10-year-old boy. Around 6 p.m. Thursday, Morrow County 9-1-1- Center received a call about a child shot in the chest inside his home at 2957 County Road 170, according to a release issued Friday by the Morrow County Sheriff's Office.

MARENGO, Ohio Sheriff's deputies say a 10-year-old central Ohio boy died when he was accidentally shot while he and other children were playing with a shotgun.

Police say a 10-year-old boy who was killed by a gunshot had been playing in the garage with other children at the time.

A Kenton tool-and-die company is the first U.S. customer to receive a China-made HPM machine, an HPM North America Corp.

Victims of brutal crimes can't erase what happened, but they can erase some of the effects with the Crime Victims Compensation Fund, which has leveled off in recent years after funding dropped more than $26 million since 2000.

Business Ledger Report ELK GROVE VILLAGE - Perfection Industrial Sales, a division of Perfection Global, LLC, along with joint venture partners Infinity Assets and Machinery Network Auctions, have recently acquired the assets from Core Systems, LLC manufacturing facilities in Painesville and Mount Gilead, Ohio.

Troopers investigating a fatal crash that shut down I-71 for hours on Monday say there are no signs that the driver of a tanker truck slowed down before he hit an Ohio Department of Transportation worker operating a backhoe along the highway.

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Signing their books will be Rosemary Osborn Barkes, a former Mount Gilead resident, who has authored the book "The Dementia Dance;" Cardington resident Ethan Long, author of, "The Tales of True Mythology -- Discovery;" and Mount Gilead resident Erika Meftah, author of "Dead Feet Running."