TIFFIN — The Mental Health and Recovery Services Board of Seneca, Sandusky and Wyandot Counties is holding a special meeting for local levies and general purposes at 4:30 p.m. today at 1200 N. Ohio 53, Tiffin.

Crane Township trustees honored road maintenance supervisor Bill Shumaker prior to a meeting Monday night. Shumaker is set to retire after working the roads of the township for 34 years. “It’s been a good ride,” Shumaker said. “I’ve really enjoyed serving the taxpayers of Crane Township.”

NEWARK (AP) — Police say a man has died after accidentally shooting himself in his car and then chasing and shooting his girlfriend before collapsing on a central Ohio street. Newark police say 29-year-old Phillip Lee Parker and his girlfriend had a confrontation in a parking lot and she sped off in her car, followed by Parker. Police say both …

Joshua L. Weatherholtz, Upper Sandusky, was arrested on a warrant out of the Upper Sandusky Police Department in the 1700 block of East Wyandot Avenue early the morning of July 6.

Ohio is moving toward carrying out its first execution in more than three years. The last time that happened was January 2014 when a condemned inmate repeatedly gasped and snorted during a 26-minute procedure with a never-before-tried drug combo.

Fairhaven Community residents spent an afternoon with friends from St. Paul Lutheran Church making a Tibetan prayer flag on Sunday as part of the nursing home’s Adopt a Friend initiative with the church.

A man in the 500 block of Highland Parkway reported his neighbor broke his phone on purpose the morning of July 4. The man chose to not press charges.

In February, a group of men that included members of the Veterans Heritage Foundation and local officials, traveled to Inman Cemetery in Salem Township to discuss the best plan of action to restore the final resting place of one of Wyandot County’s sons.

City of Upper Sandusky Waste Water Treatment Plant Superintendent Aaron Putnam reports residential laterals have been completed on North Seventh Street. Curb, sidewalk and driveway restoration is nearing completion, and dirt leveling and eventual grass seeding will take place. Grading and compacting of trenches on North Seventh Street has started, along with compaction of an alley that runs behind the …