Carl Hunnell

SHELBY — Josh Boggs lost two daughters and an unborn baby. His wife remains in a medically-induced coma after undergoing brain surgery. His son remains in the hospital with a badly bruised spinal column. Even as he deals with unending grief and pain from a horrific May 5 crash at the intersection of Ohio 96 […]

MANSFIELD — No one was injured, but Mansfield firefighters rescued a cat from a duplex fire Wednesday afternoon at 81-83 W. First St., directly across from St. Peter’s High School. The fire, which was reported at 2:08 p.m., briefly snarled school bus and auto traffic at the end of the school day. Asst. Chief Mark […]

MANSFIELD — Poll workers outnumbered voters at precincts by wide margins on Tuesday morning as light participation kicked off the 2019 primary election day. DSC_0919.jpg The Richland County Board of Elections will not be changing any polling places for the March 17 primary election. Patricia Beidelschies.jpg DSC_0914.jpg DSC_0904.jpg DSC_0902.jpg DSC_0888.jpg DSC_0887.jpg DSC_0885.jpg DSC_0883.jpg DSC_0881.jpg Donna […]

MANSFIELD — Mayor Tim Theaker will ask Mansfield City Council on Tuesday night to approve administrative and operational guidelines for the Downtown Improvement Advisory Board. The work of the board, members of which were approved by council in May 2018, became an issue in April when several city lawmakers asked if they could attend the […]

BELLVILLE — Clear Fork Middle School was on lockdown Friday morning after a sixth-grade student reported he overheard another student mention a planned shooting at the high school prom on Saturday night. Clear Fork Superintendent Janice Wyckoff called the Richland County Sheriff’s Dept. at 7:44 a.m. to report the middle school principal was contacted by […]

MANSFIELD — Richland County sales tax revenues are trending up in 2019, but the loss of $1.3 million in state money to replace Medicaid managed care organizations sales tax is still being felt. In fact, Richland County commissioners on Thursday, during a lunch meeting with other elected county officials, cautioned that current spending trends are exceeding […]

MANSFIELD — Richland County commissioners Tuesday heard a $1.2 million proposal to upgrade, renovate and relocate aspects of the sheriff’s department — including the 9-1-1 dispatch center, emergency operations center and road patrol — within the Peoples Community Center. Commissioners took no action on the proposal and scheduled a capital projects budget discussion for June […]

MANSFIELD — State assistance will not be coming to those impacted by the April 14 tornado that roared through Shelby and several surrounding townships in northern Richland County. But that doesn’t mean help isn’t coming neighbor-to-neighbor, just like it has since that late Sunday afternoon turned from peaceful to violent. To qualify for state emergency […]