By Jamie Crawford. COLUMBUS — With nearly 82 percent of Americans planning to travel this summer, the Ohio Department of Commerce Division of Financial Institutions is urging Ohioans to be on the ...

Student speakers during the ceremony were Meredith Crummey, Kaden Mell and Abigail Rollins, with Crummey and Mell focusing on the future. “I know what is to come is uncertain and different from ...

LIMA — The Ohio Department of Transportation District 1 has announced this year’s champions of its annual Paint-the-Plow program: Carey High School and Fort Jennings High School. Carey High School’s ...

DELPHOS — St. John the Evangelist Catholic School has announced the appointment of Kristin Gable as elementary principal. A news release said Gable was selected by a committee of school administration ...

Brenda and Greg Leeth were honored during Tuesday’s Lincolnview Local Schools Board of Education meeting. The husband and wife team are retiring after serving the district for a combined 59 years.

SCOTT TRUXELL/independent editor Personnel matters were at the forefront of Wednesday’s meeting of the Van Wert City Schools Board of Education. The board approved the retire-rehire of Assistant ...

Crestview’s Ayden Hyitt recently signed a letter of intent to continue his studies and to play collegiate baseball at Indiana Tech, an NAIA school in Fort Wayne.

PAULDING — An early Tuesday morning stabbing in Paulding County’s Latty Township left one man dead and another in jail. According to information provided by Paulding County Sheriff Jason K. Landers, ...

Recent Van Wert High School graduate Keaton Foster has been awarded the highly competitive Presidential Scholarship from the University of Toledo, an elite merit-based scholarship given to only four ...

VW independent sports. A late addition to the regular season schedule proofed to be a successful one for Van Wert, as the Cougars blanked state ranked Liberty-Benton (No. 6, Division V) 6-0 at Russell ...

COLUMBUS – Last spring and summer, more than 83,000 homes were sold across the state of Ohio, representing 63 percent of all 2024 sales. As the weather and the homebuying season heat up yet again, the ...

In March, Houser entered a no contest plea to a single count of murder, an unclassified felony, and was found guilty by Judge Burchfield. In exhange for the plea, three other charges – aggravated ...