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Upper Sandusky, OH Local news and sports for Wyandot County.
PORT CLINTON (AP) — Stranded on a sailboat with broken rigging and a swaying mast in the Pacific Ocean, 84-year-old Tom Corogin realized his dream of completing a solo voyage around the tip of South America was over, again. It was his sixth attempt and one of the toughest trips yet. Corogin suffered an infected [...]
TOLEDO (AP) — Police say six people were shot in a dispute outside a northwest Ohio bar hours after the Super Bowl ended. It wasn’t clear how seriously they were hurt in the shooting Monday shortly after midnight in Toledo. Police said three men and three women were shot. Police tell The Blade newspaper the [...]
COLUMBUS (AP) — Ohio lawmakers who want public schools to wait until after Labor Day to start classes say the state’s tourism industry loses business when kids go back to school too early. State Rep. Bill Hayes, a co-sponsor of the proposed legislation, says one reason for the bill was to see if having schools [...]
MARION (AP) — Ohio’s answer to Punxsutawney Phil is predicting a shorter winter — not that there’s been much winter to speak of. WMRN radio reports that Ohio groundhog Buckeye Chuck failed to see his shadow at dawn today under overcast skies in the central Ohio city of Marion. According to legend, no shadow means [...]
CANFIELD (AP) — Doughnuts from a northeast Ohio farm market will be on the diet of the New York Giants as they head to Super Bowl XLVI this weekend. White House Fruit Farm owner Debbie Pifer tells media outlets in Youngstown that the mother-in-law of Giants center Jim Cordle ordered six dozen blueberry doughnuts to [...]
DAYTON (AP) — Fewer Ohio teens are obtaining their driver’s licenses, in a trend related to economic and other factors, according to records from the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles and experts. A Dayton Daily News analysis of the records found a 9 percent drop in Ohio’s 16- and 17-year-old licensed drivers from 2006 to [...]
COLUMBUS (AP) — State disaster officials have started using a Web-based program to more efficiently track and respond to severe weather and other crises, and they’re also giving counties access to the system. They say the software, used by dozens of states and the federal government, makes it easier to assess damage, needs and available [...]
COLUMBUS (AP) — Invoices show the consultant helping Ohio develop rules and regulations related to its four new casinos charged the state more than $1.5 million in 2011. More than $1.4 million of the costs for Atlantic City, N.J.-based Spectrum Gaming Group came from fees of up to $375 per hour, The Columbus Dispatch between [...]
CINCINNATI (AP) — Smokers won’t be hired at new casinos in Columbus and Toledo, a ban that’s been adopted in other industries as employers try to hold down health care costs. Job applicants for 3,200 positions at the two casinos being developed by Penn National Gaming Inc. will not be considered if they smoke, chew [...]
WEST CARROLLTON (AP) — UPS is celebrating a first, achieved by one of its Ohio drivers: 50 years without an accident. Company and local officials in southwest Ohio watched Ron Sowder drive a UPS truck into West Carrollton on Wednesday to become the company’s first driver to hit the half-century safety mark. Atlanta-based UPS says [...]
