EMILY MILLS

October 22, 2018

Crestline Mayor Allen Moore has resigned, less than a month after a video was released showing him using racial slurs and village residents and council members began calling for his resignation.

October 22, 2018

The Richland County Land Bank plans to join the City of Shelby in any legal action against a Shelby business owner who allegedly hasn't paid either entity back for tearing down his crumbling building in 2015.

October 19, 2018

The Richland County Land Bank approved its final counteroffer as part of a months-long settlement process with the contractor on its first planned home rehabilitation project at 845 Logan Road.

October 19, 2018

Kim Williams had to learn to forgive after her stepfather shot and killed her mother and grandmother right in front of her.

October 09, 2018

Ontario officials are taking steps toward finding a new future for the former General Motors property on West Fourth Street.

October 02, 2018

Crestline officials released a video recorded on Crestline Police Chief Joe Butler’s body-worn camera in June showing Crestline Mayor Allen Moore using racial slurs.

October 01, 2018

At a gathering on the grounds of Seccaium Park, which closed 70 years ago, some people were old enough to remember going there. Some remembered stories passed down from family members. Others just wanted to know what was with that wooden roller coaster that towered over Ohio 19 for decades.

September 27, 2018

The Crestline police chief feared retaliation for reporting racial slurs made by the mayor in June, according to documents obtained in a public records request.

September 16, 2018

Shawn Christy is wanted for allegedly threatening to harm or kill President Donald Trump, a police chief, other law enforcement officers and a district attorney. 

September 14, 2018

Several Madison Local School District students and parents expressed outrage after nearly a dozen students received in-school detention after criticizing superintendent Shelley Hilderbrand on her Twitter account.

September 05, 2018

Mansfield resident April Jones was walking at North Lake Park when she saw a young boy go into the water. She jumped into the water and pulled the boy out, saving his life.

August 30, 2018

Seven singers and poets met with people in recovery and penned artistic tributes based on their stories.

August 27, 2018

Madison parents and community members are not happy with the Madison Local School District.

August 22, 2018

Brian Olar, a Roseland native, is working to help children of addicted parents through a new program at Belmont Community Church called New Destiny.

July 30, 2018

Community members gathered on the bank of the Clear Fork of the Mohican River to protest Houston-based Cabot Oil and Gas' plans for hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, in Richland, Ashland and Knox counties.

July 25, 2018

The Madison school board unanimously approved a one-year contract with a company that will allow the district to offer a STEM curriculum this school year.

July 25, 2018

After an hours-long search, a missing toddler was recovered and the suspect in an Amber Alert chase was captured.

July 12, 2018

"There's nothing for kids to do in Mansfield." A group of community members are planning to change that narrative with a community basketball league.

July 09, 2018

Angelo Klousiadis moved to Mansfield from Greece more than 60 years ago, but he hasn't moved much since then.

July 05, 2018

Mansfield is predicted to spend more money than it brings into its general and safety service funds for the next five years.

July 02, 2018

As donations pour in and volunteers help clean out and eventually demolish the house a fire destroyed, a Madison Township woman couldn't be more grateful.

June 27, 2018

Hundreds of parents attended a Madison school board meetingexpress their frustrations and criticize the leadership of Superintendent Shelley Hilderbrand and the board.

June 25, 2018

A Mansfield family is grateful to be returning home soon, bringing home a baby boy who was diagnosed with an often-fatal birth defect before he was even born.

June 17, 2018

Edmund Coleman and his dad, retired Army colonel and veterinarian Gary Coleman, will spend the next two years finishing a tiny house for Edmund to live in throughout his military service.

May 23, 2018

Christian decided to ask for supplies for the Humane Society of Richland County instead of birthday presents this year and donated them in honor of his mom, who died one year ago.

May 22, 2018

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Rich Cordray stopped in Mansfield to discuss the opioid epidemic with community leaders on the front lines of the crisis.

May 10, 2018

In the wake of two shooting deaths in less than a month in the city, community members gathered to brainstorm ways to reduce gun violence in Mansfield.

May 10, 2018

One hundred years later, Mansfield General Hospital, now known as OhioHealth Mansfield Hospital, has six times as many beds as it had when it opened.

May 02, 2018

Cheyenne Snyder was more than just a woman found shot to death in a plastic storage tote in a shed in Florida.

May 01, 2018

The body of a Galion native was found in a shed in Florida, and authorities have arrested a Florida man they say admitted to her death.

April 27, 2018

Richland County is getting a detox center and a new residential facility for people seeking addiction treatment, expanding the addiction services available in north central Ohio.

April 20, 2018

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April 19, 2018

In 2017, an estimated 2,000 doses of naloxone were given in Richland County. The estimate includes only doses used by hospitals and paramedics, so the figure could be much higher.

April 19, 2018

Steve Reeder said he was likely days away from death when he received his liver transplant at the Cleveland Clinic on April 10, 2013.

April 15, 2018

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April 07, 2018

Mansfield native and current Alaska resident Matthew Failor calls competing with his dogs in sled dog racing "the ultimate freedom."

March 29, 2018

Holly Crider was reported missing one year ago, on March 30, 2017. One year later, her family still worries about where the Mansfield resident and mother of three could be.

March 28, 2018

Parents of children in the Madison schools questioned district officials about new STEM requirements scheduled to take effect this fall during a school board meeting.

March 28, 2018

A former Pentagon official said the United States needs to negotiate with its "eyes wide open" when it talks with other nations with different views of diplomacy from America.

March 14, 2018

The lawsuit accuses opioid manufacturers and distributors of misleading health care professionals and the public by marketing opioids as rarely addictive and as a safe substitute for non-addictive pain medications, such as ibuprofen.

March 01, 2018

Two Shelby police officers are on leave after a 27-year-old man was shot dead in Tiro in February.

February 11, 2018

The news of two Westerville police officers killed on the job came as a shock to many residents of this suburb.

February 08, 2018

How can you tell if the news story you're reading is a reliable, accurate report of something that's happened?

February 05, 2018

The Forest Advisory Council has officially accepted several changes to the five-year management plan for Mohican-Memorial State Forest that will permit the removal of existing pine trees to allow for the regeneration of native hardwood forests.

February 01, 2018

Community members have formed a tri-county landowners' coalition to discuss concerns with a Houston-based company's plans for possible fracking in Richland, Ashland and Knox counties.

January 25, 2018

The lawyer representing the organizers for tattoo and music festival Ink in the Clink says several claims made in a Medina County lawsuit alleging they owe a Medina man millions of dollars are untrue.

January 24, 2018

In a civil suit filed in Medina County, a Medina man alleges the organizers of the annual Ink in the Clink tattoo and music festival owe him millions of dollars.

January 11, 2018

The police officers might have worn their protective vests, but they were no match for the dodgeballs the kids were pelting at them.

December 27, 2017

A fourth person has been charged in a labor-trafficking scheme that forced migrant minors to work at egg farms, according to an unsealed indictment.

December 11, 2017

Residents voiced their concerns with a company's plans for possible fracking in Ashland County after Houston-based Cabot Oil and Gas Corporation began initial work in recent months for potential exploratory wells in Ashland County.

December 07, 2017

The Forestry Advisory Council approved several changes to a proposed five-year management plan for Mohican-Memorial State Forest, including allowing some pine trees to remain in the forest and requiring management of invasive species before thinning trees, after decades of vocal community disapproval of the plan.

November 26, 2017

Ontario native Patrick Baker knew there was a better way to help hospitals prevent patients from getting out of bed on their own and potentially falling and hurting themselves.

November 23, 2017

Ben and Theresa Williams lost their daughter, Candice, in a car crash 14 years ago, but they keep her memory alive by giving back to the community.

November 15, 2017

Ontario City Council members grilled representatives from the Adler Group during a nearly two-hour discussion after five years of apparent frustration with a lack of development at the former General Motors site.

November 09, 2017

A grassroots movement, Stop Puppy Mills Ohio, is calling for better treatment of dogs in Ohio puppy mills and collecting signatures to try to put the issue on the ballot.

November 08, 2017

Mansfield City Council members voted to remove the city's breed-specific legislation, which banned American pit bull terriers, American Staffordshire terriers, Staffordshire terriers and any mixed breed of those dogs.

November 07, 2017

Mansfield City Council members approved banning the sale of medical marijuana in the city, which includes the cultivation, processing and distribution of the drug.

November 05, 2017

The 179th Airlift Wing returned home to Mansfield after spending a month in Puerto Rico supporting hurricane relief efforts. 

October 27, 2017

Holly Crider, a 38-year-old Mansfield resident and mother of three, was reported missing by her husband on March 30. There have been no significant clues to her whereabouts since then.

October 24, 2017

After Lexington grad Kiersten Dawson and Texas native Jeremiah Miller parted ways after Dawson was eliminated from "The Voice" and Miller was selected to move on, they thought they'd never see each other again.

October 09, 2017

Ohio attorney general candidate Steve Dettelbach wants the law to apply to all people, no matter who they are.

October 03, 2017

Residents concerned with the state's proposed changes to the management of Mohican-Memorial State Forest asked many questions but were left with few answers during a public forum Tuesday night.

September 20, 2017

The City of Mansfield does not have enough funding to make it through 2020, the city's finance director told Mansfield City Council members.

September 16, 2017

The Ohio Division of Forestry plans to overhaul its management strategy for Mohican-Memorial State Forest. The new plan calls for the removal of existing pine trees to allow for the regeneration of natural hardwood forests, along with updating how the forest is zoned.

September 08, 2017

The Richland County Jail's new body scanner is working to prevent any potential future drug use or overdoses inside the jail's walls. Treatment programs designed to get inmates help both while they're in jail and after they get out are offered to combat the opiate epidemic.

September 05, 2017

A former Morrow County Sheriff's Office detective shot by a marijuana grower asked Mansfield City Council to consider banning the cultivation, processing and dispensing of medical marijuana within city limits.

September 03, 2017

Damien Beauford wanted to erase the stereotype that Mansfield has nothing and Mansfielders don't do anything. So three years ago, he reshaped an existing 40-and-older flag football league into one perfectly suited for young people in the area.

August 31, 2017

Walk into a meeting of the Mansfield branch of the NAACP, and chances are good there will be few young people in the room. The chapter has struggled to attract younger people in recent years, but members hope that will change with a new NAACP youth chapter.

August 29, 2017

Terrel Crawford decided to go live on his Facebook page, showing his daughter's tantrum and explaining his philosophy of firm but loving parenting.

August 23, 2017

Some of the fuel spilled into a creek behind several residences on Truxell Drive, off Ohio 39, and some residents are concerned the fuel could contaminate their water supply, which is mostly from wells.

August 22, 2017

The proposed changes to a five-year plan for Mohican-Memorial State Forest do not allow logging in the forest, although it would create zoning updates and the long-term removal of planted pine trees to allow for the regeneration of natural hardwood forests.

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August 15, 2017

Dozens of people gathered for a "Stand With Charlottesville" candlelight vigil in the parking lot of Christ United Methodist Church as a way to grieve, gather together and pray after the weekend's events.

July 28, 2017

Sarah Adkins doesn't have a pulse. She has a mechanical hum, powered by a device in her heart that keeps it pumping. If the pump stopped working, Adkins' heart would stop, too.

July 17, 2017

A Vietnam-era veteran in hospice care was surprised with a special ceremony and a surprise visit from his Marine granddaughter.

July 16, 2017

Jerrie Servedio says her son, Randall, was a supportive father, loving son and racing aficionado. But he battled a 15-year heroin addiction, overdosing more than 24 times in his lifetime before his death four days after another overdose in a parking lot in December.

July 12, 2017

A Bellville mother who lost her daughter to a drug overdose is leading a call for change in the fight against the opiate epidemic, saying it needs to begin locally.

July 10, 2017

Officials say the Richland County Land Bank's first home rehab project at a Logan Road house is over budget and behind schedule, with not enough money remaining in the contract to finish the work.

June 30, 2017

The city refused to pay damages to a Mansfield woman, a domestic violence survivor, after Mansfield police damaged doors in her residence during a well-being check

June 30, 2017

Dozens of law enforcement officials and community members offered a last chance and warning to nine local violent offenders. The mood in the room ranged from supportive to angry, but the message was clear: "Put down the guns. Stop the violence."

June 21, 2017

Mansfield Choice Academies hasn't paid rent to the City of Mansfield in nearly a year, with an outstanding balance of more than $60,000.

June 16, 2017

When Chuck Deem was first starting out working in emergency medical services, he had no intention of becoming a firefighter.

June 15, 2017

 Senior citizens living in a subsidized housing community have been without air conditioning for months.

April 13, 2017

Richland County officials disputed claims from city officials that the county dog warden is not enforcing city ordinances, including Mansfield's pit bull ban.

April 05, 2017

City officials believe Mansfield taxpayers aren't getting their money's worth when it comes to animal enforcement laws. But the Richland County dog warden said he is not required to enforce city ordinances — only state laws.

April 04, 2017

City officials blasted the Richland County dog warden's office, saying the county is not enforcing the city's pit bull ban.

March 31, 2017

Most people are relatively well-established in their careers by their early 40s. But when Wes Welch, now 70,  was in his early 40s, he was starting a new career as a Mansfield firefighter, finally living out a years-long dream.

March 31, 2017

A Volunteers of America women’s facility on North Main Street is still operating more than two weeks after it received a cease and desist letter from the city.

March 28, 2017

Local community leaders voiced their disapproval for the new head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as President Donald Trump signed an executive order rolling back climate change policies.

March 22, 2017

Mansfield City Council passed the city's $123.2-million 2017 budget. One of the biggest concerns facing the city in the budget is the rising cost of health insurance for city employees.

March 10, 2017

Medicaid and Medicare help Yvette Hallabrin's paralyzed son receive care. But with a potential repeal of the Affordable Care Act, she doesn't know how her son would be able to afford health care and treatment.

March 09, 2017

An argument in a car apparently led to the shooting death of a 22-year-old woman at the Brookwood Way Apartments and the abduction of her 7-week-old daughter, according to law enforcement officials.

March 08, 2017

A seven-week-old baby who was abducted following the shooting death of the child’s mother Wednesday night is safe and with family members, police said.

February 13, 2017

Pete and Audrey Thacker never thought they'd become newlyweds more than 50 years after they first met.

January 03, 2017

Madison Township mom Jenni Yoder just wanted a place for her kids to play baseball, so she started a community effort to clean up Cyclops Field after her sons and other community children struggled to find a place to play.

December 29, 2016

At least 48 people died from an accidental drug overdose in Richland County in 2016, and more than 450 people have overdosed in the county this year.

December 21, 2016

The man Scott Banks stopped to help on a West Virginia freeway before he was killed is raising money for the family of the man he calls his hero.

December 12, 2016

U.S. 30 eastbound was shut down for nearly two hours after a livestock hauler carrying pigs caught fire, killing several animals and causing several to run loose on the roadway.

December 03, 2016

Eighteen Richland County pharmacies started selling naloxone without a prescription this year, but few residents apparently are purchasing the opioid overdose-reversal medication.

November 14, 2016

Restructuring at OhioHealth Mansfield Hospital affected 80 employees as the hospital outsources the functions of three departments and eliminates more than 20 middle management positions

November 08, 2016

Plymouth resident Bruce Tanner took a bus to Maine, with no money. He walked nearly 800 miles back home, relying on people he met along the way for food, shelter and sometimes rides to get him back home.

October 26, 2016

The Hospice of North Central Ohio is suspending its inpatient services at Hospice House in Ashland.

October 20, 2016

Conservative columnist Cal Thomas spoke about the November election between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, as well as the current state of government, at Ashland University.

October 13, 2016

The membership at First Congregational Church has dwindled for the last several years. Its weekly single traditional worship service is not enough to attract younger churchgoers, so the congregation is dissolving.