Carl Hunnell, Night Editor

MANSFIELD — Richland County commissioners are about to ask for more budget detail from departments and agencies under their purview. The board on Thursday will discuss the roll out of a new budgeting template. It will ask this format be used when the various county entities submit budget requests, starting with the mid-year review in […]

MANSFIELD — A felonious assault investigation by Mansfield police may soon become a homicide probe. Brandon Ewers, 42, of 192 Boston Ave. was pronounced brain dead Wednesday at 8:56 a.m., but remained on life support Thursday at OhioHealth Mansfield Hospital while organ donations are completed, according to Richland County coroner’s investigator Tom Stortz. Ewers was […]

MANSFIELD — Even a veteran local elected official like Cliff Mears is a bit shocked by the sudden influx of new political blood into the Mansfield scene in 2019. Almost a dozen new faces, most of them Democrats, will appear on the May or November election ballots, depending on how the primary shakes out on […]

MANSFIELD — Rev. El Akuchie was just one of 10 people who spoke to Mansfield City Council on Tuesday night during a streets committee meeting that attracted a capacity audience. Most came to criticize the city’s snowplow and road salt response — or what they considered the lack thereof — during a mid-January winter storm […]

MANSFIELD — Less than a year ago, a diverse group of 15 local residents attended the South by Southwest Conference in Austin, Texas. They were sent by the Richland County Foundation, tasked to return with ideas on how to improve downtown Mansfield. A comprehensive, 67-page “Mansfield Rising” plan that the group and its advisers developed […]