OhioHealth family medicine resident, Cody Klinker, MD, has won the American Academy of Family Physicians’ (AAFP) Award for Excellence in Graduate Medical Education. Dr. Klinker is a native of Van Wert ...

CONVOY — Nearly 300 America’s Electric Cooperative PAC members of Paulding Putnam Electric Cooperative and Midwest Electric gathered at Lincoln Ridge Farms last week for a legislative dinner. The ...

COLUMBUS — The beginning of football season also means the beginning of tailgating season in parking lots across Ohio. Before gameday arrives, the Ohio Department of Commerce’s Divisions of Liquor ...

For the second straight season against McComb, an early Crestview injury seemed to swing momentum in favor of the Panthers, as McComb rolled to a 31-14 victory on Friday night. Last year, quarterback ...

Friday night was opening night for most high school football teams around the area, including the Crestview Knights, who started the season with a 49-7 win over Parkway. The Van Wert Cougars opened in ...

It was hot opening day at the Van Wert County Fair, but there was still activity at the fairgrounds into the evening hours. The fair will continue today and tonight. The annual cheerleading ...

Paul Palmeter and Stacia Stripe cut the ribbon to celebrate the opening of Double A’s Dining on S. Shannon St. in Van Wert, the site of the former Black Angus. The locally owned establishment, which ...

CELINA — The Van Wert Cougar golf team traveled to Celina Lynx to take on the Celina Bulldogs on Wednesday, and the Cougars were victorious 161-229. Hayden Dowler was match medalist, carding a 39.

A car and van collided at U.S. 224 and Van Wert Decatur Road in Van Wert shortly before 9 p.m. Monday. The driver of the van, from Illinois, was taken by ambulance to OhioHealth Van Wert Hospital. The ...

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The 2024 Van Wert County Fair is in the books, as the curtain came down Monday night. Fair attendees, vendors, exhibitors and others had to deal with extreme heat and humidity during the first few ...

COLUMBUS — The Ohio Narcotics Intelligence Center has released a public safety bulletin alerting Ohioans to an increasing number of illicit drug samples found to contain mixtures of powerful drugs ...