COLUMBUS — Senate Bill 3 sounds like a simple, easy idea. Reduce low-level drug possession charges, now felonies, to misdemeanors. At the same time, stiffen the penalties for those dealing in drugs. However, as Ohio state lawmakers are finding, when it comes to drug laws, nothing is as simple as it seems. Senate Bill 3, […]
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Mansfield City Council to make final CDBG, HOME fund decisions May 21
MANSFIELD — Mansfield City Council will make final decisions May 21 on how to spend more than $1 million in combined 2019 Community Development Block Grant funds and the HOME Investment Partnerships Program. Council’s Public Affairs Committee discussed the allocations of $894,831 in CDBG money and $252,424 in HOME funds during a special meeting on […]
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Shelby man grieves loss of daughters, vows to make intersection safer
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 […]
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Mansfield firefighters rescue cat from West First Street duplex fire
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 […]
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Light voter turnout seen across Mansfield today as primary election begins
MANSFIELD — Poll workers outnumbered voters at precincts by wide margins on Tuesday morning as light participation kicked off the 2019 primary election day. Voting was indeed light at all four four voting sites Richland Source visited this morning — Maddox Memorial COGIC on Walker Lake Road; Mid-Ohio Conference Center on West Fourth Street; St. […]
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Mayor to offer Downtown Improvement Advisory Board guidelines to City Council
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 […]
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Clear Fork Middle School lockdown lifted Friday after reported prom threat
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 […]
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Richland County sales tax revenue up, but loss of $1.3 million in state funds being felt
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 […]
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County hears $1.2 million proposal to renovate, upgrade sheriff’s spaces at Peoples Community
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 […]