MOUNT GILEAD – The Mount Gilead Post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol is asking for the public’s assistance in locating a vehicle, likely a Chevrolet with front-end damage, involved in a fatal hit-skip crash with a pedestrian early Friday morning. The crash occurred on Interstate 71 north, between exits 140–151 in Harmony Township in […]
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Joint Tractor Supply Company, Five Below store planned near Possum Run Road Walmart
MANSFIELD — A new Tractor Supply Company and Five Below store is expected to open off the I-71/ Ohio 13 intersection in January 2026, according to a Tractor Supply Company spokesperson.
Posted inOutdoor
Hunter building deer stand reports Bigfoot sighting in Richland County
MANSFIELD — Andrew Baum said he has spent much of his life in the outdoors. He had never seen anything like the creature he saw on Dec. 28, in a Washington Township field. The 35-year-old Mansfield man, perched in a 17-foot high tree stand, believes he saw a Bigfoot walking purposely and quickly across the […]
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2 firms bid for Bellville wastewater upgrade to enhance Ohio 97/I-71 area
BELLVILLE — Two local companies submitted bids for a wastewater improvement plan designed to aid increased economic development near the Ohio 97/I-71 interchange. Those bids from Driven Excavating of Crestline and Simonson Construction of Ashland were opened Tuesday morning by the Richland County Board of Commissioners. The project was estimated at $4.2 million by Richland Engineering […]
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Work zone safety: ‘Our members want to go home safely at the end of each night’
MANSFIELD — Jeff Sellers told Richland County commissioners on Thursday morning that road construction workers want to go home safely at the end of their shifts. That’s why the business manager for Laborers’ Local #1216, joined by other union officials, sought and obtained a proclamation from commissioners in support of National Work Zone Awareness Week […]
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Four killed in wrong-way, head-on crash on I-71 in Morrow County on Easter
MORROW COUNTY — Four people died early Easter Sunday morning in a head-on, two-vehicle crash on I-71 in northern Morrow County, according to the Mount Gilead Post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol. The accident occurred at 2:28 a.m., according to troopers, and involved one of the vehicles traveling the wrong way on the interstate […]
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Local law enforcement officials wouldn’t mind overcast skies during solar eclipse
MANSFIELD — Lt. Jason Murfield said Friday morning he wouldn’t mind an overcast day in Richland County on April 8, aka solar eclipse day. That would make life much easier for the commander of the Mansfield Post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol in a county that could see as many as 250,000 visitors pour […]