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By LOU WILIN STAFF WRITER A 26-year-old Toledo woman, Tiesha McQuin, was the female passenger killed with a Grob Systems executive in an airplane crash early Sunday about two miles north of Findlay, family members of McQuin said Tuesday. Tiesha McQuin was riding in the plane...

By LOU WILIN STAFF WRITER Speedway plans to invest $9.1 million, buying a building in Springfield and renovating part of its nearby Enon headquarters to add 350 jobs and retain 800 employees, the company reported. The additions and renovations by Marathon Petroleum Corp.’s...

By LOU WILIN STAFF WRITER Findlay’s luring of the $38 million McLane grocery distribution center has sparked interest from other companies looking for locations for new operations, said Tony Iriti, economic development director for the Findlay-Hancock County Alliance....

By LOU WILIN STAFF WRITER McLane Co., which will open a $38 million grocery distribution center in northern Findlay in 2016, will avoid more than $750,000 in sales taxes by temporarily ceding ownership of the construction site to the Blanchard Valley Port Authority. Government...

By LOU WILIN STAFF WRITER A second federal agency voted Tuesday to investigate a complaint by unionized Cooper Tire & Rubber Co. workers that Chinese tire makers have unfairly stolen U.S. customers. The International Trade Commission voted to join the Commerce Department in...

By LOU WILIN STAFF WRITER Elmwood Schools students received grief counseling Thursday at the Bloomdale school following the Tuesday death of classmate Mackenzie Shaffer, 12. Counselors will be at the school again this morning. Shaffer, a seventh-grader from rural Cygnet, appeared...

By LOU WILIN STAFF WRITER Federal officials are investigating a complaint by unionized Cooper Tire & Rubber Co. workers that Chinese tire makers have unfairly stolen U.S. customers. The case could take a year to resolve. It could result in the Commerce Department imposing a...

By LOU WILIN STAFF WRITER CYGNET — Facebook posts Tuesday and Wednesday reported that a girl’s death was likely caused by contagious meningitis. The posts were incorrect, and put a scare into Cygnet area parents. Privacy laws prevent the Wood County Health Department...

By LOU WILIN STAFF WRITER Marathon Petroleum’s $2.87 billion purchase of Hess Corp.’s retail business in September could soon make it Ohio’s largest company by sales. It already ranked second in 2013 with $100.25 billion in sales behind pharmaceutical and...

By LOU WILIN STAFF WRITER Rowmark, a Findlay maker of plastic sheets for signs, plaques and other uses, plans to add 50 or more employees and construct an additional 65,302-square-foot building. Construction, on Hamlet Drive just south of Hamlet Protein, and north of Guardian...