With the increase in population in Licking County and a need for restaurants and social spaces, the Newark Arcade is offering a new opportunity filled with history.

The Newark graduate surpassed 2,000 career points during Thursday’s 84-56 victory against Cedarville. Stare, a fifth-year senior, became the second women’s or men’s player in school history to reach the mark as she previously became the women’s program’s all-time scoring leader earlier this season.

Night - Mostly clear. Winds S at 6 mph (9.7 kph). The overnight low will be 9 °F (-12.8 °C). Mostly cloudy with a high of 38 °F (3.3 °C). Winds from S to SSW at 7 to 14 mph (11.3 to 22.5 kph ...

A Licking County church opened its doors as an emergency warming shelter for those in need. Deb Dingus is the pastor at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church on West Main Street in Newark. She said about 50 people are currently staying at the church,

Par Excellence STEM Academy will host its annual Day of Service Community Breakfast 8-10 a.m. Monday, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, at the Reese Center.

Ohio Lt. Gov. Jon Husted is Republican Gov. Mike DeWine’s pick to succeed Vice President-elect JD Vance in the U.S. Senate.

Jaxon Ramos, a seventh-grader at Longfellow Middle School in Lorain, will compete at the Elks Hoop Shoot basketball finals on Feb. 22 in Newark, Ohio, after winning the district tournament Jan. 5. The Elks Hoop Shoot is a national free throw program for youth ages 8 to 13.

Ohio State, the first team to run the gauntlet of four playoff games on its way to the national title, celebrated with 30,000 Buckeyes fans on Sunday at Ohio Stadium. Fans

Former Rutgers head coach Chris Ash is a "strong candidate" to be named the defensive coordinator at a college football powerhouse.

CLEVELAND — Ancora Holdings, a Mayfield Heights-based institutional asset management company and private wealth advisor, is calling on U.S. Steel to drop its merger agreement with Japanese-owned Nippon Steel, end its litigation against the federal government seeking to keep the deal alive and oust its Chief Executive.

SCIOTO COUNTY, OH (WOWK) — Train cars carrying grain derailed in a Portsmouth rail yard Monday morning. That’s according to Scioto County Emergency Management. They say it happened in the Norfolk & Southern rail yard. Emergency management officials say nine cars of the 90-car train derailed and six of them turned on their side.

Known around the Allen County Museum as the three musketeers, Rick Balbaugh, Mark Billingsley, and Herb Lauer led a presentation Sunday discussing the history and their efforts in restoring the ‘Noah’s Ark’ exhibit created in 1901 by James Grosjean.