ASHLAND (AP) — An Ohio city wants to demolish a house where two women’s bodies were found and an alleged serial killer was arrested. The (Ashland) Times-Gazette reports officials in Ashland recently applied for federal grant money to raze the home deemed uninhabitable because of the slayings. Forty-year-old Shawn Grate pleaded not guilty in October to aggravated murder and kidnapping …

FINDLAY (AP) — Residents in a northern Ohio city are cleaning up basements and belongings after dealing with another damaging flood. The Courier reports the Blanchard River at Findlay crested at 16.5 feet Friday and has been receding since then. The river was at 11.4 feet  early Sunday, just slightly above minor flood stage level. It was the fifth-highest crest …

CLEVELAND (AP) — Long-time natives and carpetbaggers. Construction magnates, toy tycoons, an Olympian and an heir to the Jim Bean whiskey fortune. These are some of investors vying to win approval to grow medical marijuana in Ohio. The state accepted 185 applications in June and now has to decide who gets the 24 cultivator licenses available.

Area residents of all ages enjoyed the various activities and food at the Wharton Community Festival on Saturday.

A fawn is pictured at Stepping Stones Park in Upper Sandusky. More and more deer have been spotted in the area during the last few years.

Two-year-old Owen Kline is all smiles as he shows off a craft he made during a 3 Little Pigs program at Mohawk Community Library in Sycamore. Owen is a son of Elizabeth Hucke.

CAREY — Hundreds of people packed Memorial Park on Sunday afternoon to watch baseball and show support for the family of a fallen player. Carey Youth Baseball dedicated a new scoreboard at the park in memory of Ethan Ickes during a ceremony Sunday prior to all local teams taking the field.

A portion of North Third Street remains closed while city employees investigate the cause of a sinkhole discovered Saturday afternoon. Wastewater collection supervisor Dave Schneider said the road has a single sewer below the street and the city should know the cause and have the street repaired in the next week.

Jerimy J. Higgins, Vanlue, was arrested for a civil protection order violation in the 300 block of South Sandusky Avenue the evening of June 29. An officer assisted an Ohio State Highway Patrol trooper with a traffic stop and provided a K9 to support a vehicle search on U.S. 23 at Ohio 199 early the morning of June 30.