With the new year arriving Tuesday night, the Lima Police Department is reminding residents to not use guns to ring in 2025. Officers say "what goes up must come down" meaning any bullets fired into the air will have to come back down to the ground at some point. That means if someone fires a gun into the air to celebrate the new year, there is still a risk of a bullet striking property, an animal, or even another person causing possible injury or death. On Monday afternoon, we talked with LPD about the possible legal consequences if someone is caught shooting a gun into the air.

December 23, 2024, Press Release from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources: COLUMBUS, Ohio – Hunters across Ohio checked 17,373 white-tailed deer on Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 21-22, during the state’s additional weekend of deer gun hunting, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) Division of Wildlife. Last year, hunters tagged 15,470 deer during the gun weekend, with a three-year average of 13,417.

LIMA, OH (WLIO) - Around 60 Lima women took a shot at something new on Sunday. 

August 29, 2024, Press Release from the United States Department of Justice: TOLEDO, Ohio – Aron McKillips, 30, of Sandusky, Ohio, was sentenced to 41 months in prison by Judge James G. Carr, after pleading guilty to interstate communication of threats and unlawful possession of a machine gun. McKillips pleaded guilty to the offenses in court on April 9, 2024. According to court documents, from September 2021 to July 2022, McKillips made at least five online threats to harm or kill law enforcement officers. In one such threat, he submitted a photo he took from his residence while aiming a semi-automatic rifle at an officer who was parked in a police vehicle further down the street who was there to assist residents on an unrelated matter.

August is National Shooting Sports Month, and a local range is inviting people to try their hand at the sport. If you have been watching the Olympics, shooting sports are practiced worldwide, and Hesseling Range, Firearms & Gunsmith want to introduce people who may have never shot a gun before to learn how to safely take their first shots.

42-year-old Dewayne Carter Jr. was indicted by an Allen Co. Grand Jury on 4 charges connected to a January 12, 2024 shooting in Lima.

The murder trial for a Lima man accused of killing a 14-year-old girl has been pushed back until the fall. 18-year-old Malik Dennis signed a time waiver today in Allen County Common Pleas Court, pushing his trial back to September 9, 2024. He has been charged with murder, felonious assault, firing a firearm into a house, and tampering with evidence. 

An Allen County man is sentenced to 52 to 55 and half years in prison for shooting at law enforcement during a standoff last summer. 33-year-old Carl Mollett was found guilty of 5 counts of felonious assault with gun specifications and one count of having a weapon under disability by an Allen County jury in March.

April 12, 2024, Press Release by the United States Attorney’s Office, Northern District of Ohio: CLEVELAND – Federal, state, and local law enf…