PAULDING — When today’s residents look back on Paulding County’s 200 years of history and think about what it took to clear and drain the Great Black Swamp, few may realize the struggle to drain the ...

Get ready for some fun, suspense, and drama as a creative group of performers from Off Stage Productions presents Murder Inn, written by Howard Voland and Keith McGregor. The director for the ...

A Middle Point man convicted of tampering with evidence has been sentenced to 24 months in prison. Dale Gear, 58, was sentenced Wednesday morning by Van Wert County Common Pleas Court Judge Martin ...

The 2025 high school football season is upon us and Pigskin Pick’Em is back for its ninth season on the VW independent Sports page. For those not familiar with the feature, here’s how it works – it’s ...

16 defendants appeared for various criminal hearings in Van Wert County Common Pleas Court between Friday, April 5 and Wednesday, April 10. 11 of the hearings were arraignments. Judge Martin ...

COLUMBUS — Last week, Governor Mike DeWine joined members of the Ohio Juvenile Justice Working Group to announce the recommendations for significant changes to Ohio’s state and local juvenile justice ...

PAULDING — Paulding was not Paulding County’s first county seat, and the courthouse is not the first to be constructed here. Those topics will be addressed in a future article in this history series.

Lincolnview freshman Ila Hughes was named NWC softball Player of the Year in voting done by conference coaches. She’s hitting .552 this season with 10 home runs and 36 RBIs, and has a 13-2 record on ...

President Howard Taft was one of a handful of presidential candidates that have campaigned in Paulding County. The President is visible standing at right in the bandstand in Paulding in 1912. The ...

The only two countywide issues on Tuesday’s ballot in Van Wert County passed by a wide margin. The overwhelming majority of voters who cast ballots approved property tax replacement levies for Van ...

A Van Wert woman who admitted to assaulting a city police officer this past spring learned her fate on Wednesday. During a hearing in Van Wert County Common Pleas Court, Latricia Darst, 34, was ...

COLUMBUS – The Ohio Peace Officer Training Commission has unanimously approved recommendations put forth by Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost’s Blue Ribbon Task Force on the Future of Police Training, ...