The Mansfield/Ontario/Richland County Health Department needs help locating a dog implicated in a bite-attack of a 1 1/2 year-old female.

MANSFIELD -- Pam Richter realizes her brother's murder may never be solved. On March 14, 1985, Mark Mellick, 35, was found beaten to death outside his Amoy Ganges Road home.

Azul Agave Mexican Grill and Cantina is the newest business opening up in Ontario.

Ontario Local Schools is considering wind energy to save on electricity costs and promote a green alternative for the district.

ONTARIO -- If you owe court fines in Ontario, you have about 30 days to pay up. Those who don't, in a worst-case scenario, could be jailed, according to Janet Yeager-Swain, new clerk of courts in Ontario.

Rape and kidnapping charges have been dismissed against an Ashland man after the alleged victim changed her story.

U.S. 30 will be resurfaced through Ontario and Mansfield starting April 5 and ending in August, according to a press release from the Ohio Department of Transportation.

Mayor Larry Collins is feeling the heat of public scrutiny as Ontario officials struggle to balance the city's $7 million 2010 budget.

ONTARIO -- Mayor Larry Collins on Monday laid out his plan for balancing Ontario's budget for 2010 -- a plan that depends on staff reductions, cuts in hours and the collection of back court fines totalling nearly half a million dollars.

ONTARIO -- The City Planning Commission will meet at 7 p.m. Wednesday at Ontario City Hall, 555 Stumbo Road, to conduct hearings on two variance requests; discuss possible amendments to the city zoning code on signs, sign permit fees and the exclusion of travel trailers as dwellings; and hear an engineer's update on storm water regulations.

The Richland County Safe Communities Coalition reports no traffic-related deaths locally in February.

ONTARIO-- The Ontario Walmart Supercenter, 359 N. Lexington-Springmill Road, recently began an extensive renovation.

MANSFIELD -- It hasn't been an easy road and there's a long journey ahead, but three area residents want those with multiple sclerosis to know: The condition is manageable.

There's still plenty of winter left, but some local school districts already have exceeded, or are about to exceed, their allotted calamity days for the year.

An Ashland man arrested on Valentine's Day in connection with a rape police say took place in a local movie theater had his case bound over to a Richland County grand jury following a preliminary hearing in municipal court Friday.