Findlay City Schools dropped from 3.5 to 3 stars overall on the 2026 Ohio School Report Card. District leaders told the school board that new instructional coaches, mentors and about 20 added positions funded by the 2025 income tax are aimed at raising scores.

A Bellevue boy born weighing 1 pound, 4 ounces after doctors gave him a 40% chance of survival will turn 5 in November. His family shares his story online to encourage other parents of premature babies.

Christian Clearing House in Findlay has given out about 250 new winter coats so far this season through Operation Warm and expects to reach about 500. Families at or below 200% of the federal poverty level can pick up coats weekday mornings.

A tank of glycidyl methacrylate exploded Tuesday night at the MC Tank Terminal on Progress Avenue in north Toledo. As of late Wednesday morning, a 1-mile evacuation and a 3-mile shelter-in-place order remained in effect and the release was continuing, city officials said.

In 1961, former Sears, Roebuck and Co. chairman Fowler Beery McConnell transferred his family's 1850s Upper Sandusky home to the Wyandot County Historical Society for $1, on the condition it forever house the county museum. It still does.

An early-morning two-alarm fire Tuesday damaged one unit and forced the evacuation of a building at the Beacon Point apartments on Cheyenne Boulevard in south Toledo. A firewall kept the fire to one apartment, and no injuries were reported.

Prosecutors dropped abduction, theft and other charges against Toledo firefighter Kenasia Guilford, 33. She pleaded no contest to a reduced misdemeanor charge of aggravated trespassing and was found guilty; sentencing is Dec. 2.

Fostoria-area beekeeper Joshua Tolento has rolled out the first production batch of his 2026 Sierra Chocolate Surge coffee-infused honey, made with honey from The Mindful Beekeeper's own hives and fair-trade coffee roasted in-house.

A Toledo mother says the house she moved into less than a month ago has sewage backing up into the tub and suspected mold, 13abc reported. The station says the co-owner offered to refund her $2,600 if its story didn't air. The health department was asked to look into it.

Elmer Winters, 55, charged with murder in the April 28 shooting death of Leon Oldham, 44, has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. A judge ordered a competency evaluation and set his next hearing for Dec. 7; bond stays at $5 million, WTOL reported.

One person was killed Monday afternoon in a shooting on Albert Avenue in northeast Columbus, near the Alrahma Mosque, as people were leaving a funeral there, ATF said. Police said the mosque was not the target. No arrests had been announced.

The U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether the 1868 federal ban on distilling spirits at home is constitutional. It took a Texas case, DOJ v. McNutt, to settle a split with the 6th Circuit, which upheld the ban in Newark brewer John Ream's case.

Michael Taylor Sr., 61, of Toledo appeared in court Monday on rape and strangulation charges from an Oct. 16 west Toledo assault report. A judge set bail at $200,000, and a preliminary hearing is set for Oct. 26, 13abc reported.

House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries joined Rep. Marcy Kaptur at church services in Toledo on Sunday as she faces a rematch with Republican Derek Merrin in Ohio's 9th Congressional District. The election is Nov. 3.

A child and an adult were killed and several other people were taken to hospitals after a black pickup truck drove through a soccer game at Wichita's Stryker Sports Complex on Saturday afternoon, Wichita police said. The driver is in custody, two juveniles were inside the truck, and police say there is no ongoing threat.

The Wyandot Mission Church in Upper Sandusky was built of limestone in 1824, abandoned after the Wyandot were forced out of Ohio in 1843, rebuilt from its original stones in 1889, and returned to the Wyandotte Nation by the United Methodist Church in 2019.

The prison woodshop scenes in 'The Shawshank Redemption' were filmed inside a former Stephan Lumber Company building at 226 S. Eighth St. in Upper Sandusky. Today it is the Shawshank Woodshop museum, open by appointment, with screen-used vehicles and props.

France is borrowing at its highest cost in more than two decades, its budget faces a hostile parliament and Moody's reviews its rating Oct. 23. Some crypto analysts say a French crisis could push central banks to print money and lift Bitcoin. Others warn a panic could just as easily drag crypto down. Not financial advice.

The Mindful Beekeeper, a Fostoria-area live honeybee removal and relocation business, says it completed 37 honeybee colony relocations in 2025 and 2026, moving colonies out of walls, chimneys and other structures to its Seneca County apiary instead of exterminating them.

The Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway has been awarded about $43.5 million in federal rail funding to rehabilitate its swing bridge over the Maumee River near the Port of Toledo, U.S. Rep. Marcy Kaptur and U.S. Sen. Jon Husted announced Friday. The work will let the bridge carry heavier modern railcars.

A 61-year-old Toledo man is charged with rape and strangulation after a woman reported Friday, Oct. 16, that she was assaulted in west Toledo, according to police records reported by WTOL 11. He was booked into the Lucas County Jail the same day.

A Wood County grand jury has indicted Robert Wesley Woodruff, 45, of Cygnet on two counts of rape and four counts of gross sexual imposition involving three young children. He posted a $50,000 cash bond and is on GPS monitoring with orders to have no contact with minors. He is presumed innocent.

Update: The National Weather Service has upgraded its Freeze Watch to a Freeze Warning for Seneca, Hancock, Wood, Sandusky, Wyandot, Lucas, Ottawa and Huron counties from 1 a.m. to 9 a.m. Sunday, Oct. 18. Lows as cold as 30 are expected, enough to kill tender plants.

An hourglass sculpture at Seneca County's Opportunity Park is a lasting marker of the county's 2024 bicentennial and its 'Standing the Test of Time' theme. The symbol came from hourglass ads local businesses ran during the county's 150th anniversary, and commissioners approved the roughly $6,500 legacy project in October 2024.

TiffinOhio.net, a Facebook page with about 65,000 followers that covers Tiffin and Northwest Ohio, is run by NorthStar Civic Media LLC, an Illinois company headquartered in Chicago, according to the site's own terms. Its publisher, Dylan Poe, was described in 2020 as a registered Democrat who had worked on Democratic campaigns. Here is what public records and the outlet's own statements show.

Seneca East Local Schools bus driver and onboard instructor Teresa Felter took first place at her regional School Bus Safety Road-E-O with 741 of 800 points and competes at the state contest Saturday, Oct. 17, at Berlin High School in Delaware.

Toledo police say a Flock license plate camera helped them find a missing 14-year-old, which led investigators to a 16-year-old missing since March and a 7-month-old. All three are safe. City Council could vote Tuesday, Oct. 20, on a resolution asking the city to end its Flock contracts.

A new Bowling Green State University/YouGov poll of 1,000 likely Ohio voters has Democrat Amy Acton leading Republican Vivek Ramaswamy 50% to 44% for governor and Democrat Sherrod Brown leading Republican Jon Husted 48% to 42% for U.S. Senate. Both leads grew from 3 points in September.

Findlay will hold a ribbon cutting and community tree planting at its Urban Prairie site on East Main Cross Street from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 19. Seeding is planned for winter, with a community plant-plugging event in May 2027.

The NCAA sued Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine in federal court Friday, three days after he signed an executive order telling Ohio colleges they can let athletes from the high school class of 2022 play a fifth season despite NCAA rules. The NCAA calls the order unconstitutional; DeWine says the athletes are being treated unfairly.

Fostoria is replacing stone and older mulch with recycled rubber surfacing at the playgrounds in City, Foundation, Gray, Jackson and Harmon parks this week. The city asks people to stay out of playground areas while crews and equipment are working.

A federal cocaine case tied to a downtown Fostoria gym, a September indictment naming five defendants, and a string of METRICH search warrants that ended with an Oct. 13 arrest on North Wood Street. Here is where Fostoria's 2026 drug cases stand.

Starting Monday, Oct. 19, the drive-thru drop box for water payments at the Fostoria Municipal Building will be closed for about two weeks because of construction. Online, in-person, mail and front-entrance drop box options remain.