Of the 19 area games on this week’s Pigskin Pick’Em slate, at least 10 can be considered games that should be fairly close.

AEP Ohio Transmission Company, Inc. has submitted a Letter of Notification to the Ohio Power Siting Board (OPSB) for the proposed Van Wert–Haviland 138 kilovolt (kV) Transmission Line Project. The $45 ...

COLUMBUS — State Representatives Roy Klopfenstein (R-Haviland) and Brian Lorenz (R-Powell) introduced legislation this week to modernize Ohio’s driver education requirements, using technology to make ...

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A Wayne Trace Local Schools bus went off the road into a cornfield across from Vantage Career Center Thursday afternoon. Emergency responders, including the Van Wert Police Department, Van Wert Fire ...

This is National Roundabouts Week when transportation officials across the country tout the safety improvement that follows where they’re implemented. Roundabouts are a proven safety tool for ...

3:56 a.m. – Deputies responded to an area of Simpson Street in the Village of Willshire for a noise complaint. 5:28 a.m. – Deputies responded to an area of U.S. 33 in Willshire Township for a report ...

Week No. 4 is here and that means all area high school football teams, except for Lima Sr., will be playing league or conference games. There are a handful of games on the schedule that could go ...

DELPHOS — A shooting that left two people dead in Delphos last Monday has officially been ruled a murder-suicide. According to a press release issued by the Delphos Police Department, autopsies ...

COLUMBUS — Week 3 of the 2025 high school football season is in the books. Football players from all over Ohio put up some amazing performances in the third week of the season. Here, the Ohio Prep ...

Hundreds of high school freshman and sophomores from Van Wert, Paulding and Mercer counties spent some of school day on Tuesday at the Van Wert County Fairgrounds, getting hands-on exposure to a ...

The majority of Wednesday’s meeting of the Lincolnview Local Schools Board of Education consisted of presentations and monthly reports. Two of the presentations during the nearly two hour meeting were ...