A pretrial hearing to establish trial dates for a Van Wert man accused of killing his stepfather was delayed on Monday. The Van Wert County Common Pleas Court hearing for Larry Andrus Jr., 49, was ...

Two local school boards will hold their first meetings of 2025 this week. The Lincolnview Local Schools Board of Education will meet at 6 p.m. tonight (Tuesday) in the Neubrecht Lecture Hall. Prior to ...

Gayle Howard Klinger, 81, of Convoy, passed away Friday afternoon, January 3, 2025, at the Meadows of Delphos. He was born on January 24, 1943, in Van Wert, the son of Harry Klinger and Edna (Wheeler) ...

It was a classic snowball effect at Lincolnview High School Friday night. Max Hammons had just hit a bucket and the Lancers and Kalida were tied 22-22 with 4:45 left in the second quarter but from ...

LIMA — The Lima-Allen County Regional Planning Commission received news earlier this week from the office of Governor Mike DeWine that the proposed planning committee – the West Central Ohio Rural ...

Van Wert Elks Lodge 1197, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks have again this year adopted children from the Angel Tree Project to help make their Christmas a little brighter. Tags are placed on ...

Lincolnview guard Max Hammons (2) finds himself surrounded by Kalida defenders on Friday night. Unfortunately for the Lancers, the Wildcats went on a big second quarter run and left with a 69-53 ...

Steps have been taken to make the intersection of S. Washington St. (U.S. 127) and Crawford St. safer for students who need to cross for school. During Monday night’s meeting of Van Wert City Council, ...

Points were at a premium during Monday night’s non-conference girls basketball game at the Cougar’s Den, as Delphos Jefferson defeated Van Wert 32-23. The Wildcats led 10-3 after the first quarter and ...

Van Wert will soon have one less pizza place. In a Facebook announcement made Friday night, Nicko’s Pizza announced it will close for good after this weekend. The final day of business will be Sunday.

Van Wert FOP Lodge 62 recently presented custom-made challenge coins to the law enforcement agencies of Van Wert County. This was done to honor and recognize the men and women that hold the thin blue ...

With 2024 coming to an end, the Van Wert independent will publish a series of articles on what it deems the top 10 news stories of the year. The series will run Thursday, Friday and Saturday, December ...