A St. Paris woman died Thursday morning in a one-vehicle rollover crash in rural Champaign County, deputies of the Champaign County Sheriff’s Office report.

Alison Bumgardner, 47, reportedly was operating a southbound van on Zimmerman Road just north of U.S. Route 36 about 7 a.m. when she lost control, drove off the west side of the road and overturned. She was partially ejected from the vehicle.
The Champaign County Coroner pronounced her dead at the scene.

A passenger in the vehicle, Cailtin Woodrum, 26, was transported by squad to Mercy Memorial Hospital in Urbana for non-life-threatening injuries.

Deputies are still investigating the crash, and neither alcohol nor drugs are not expected as factors. Some snow was on the road at the time of the crash.

Neither Bumgardner nor Woodrum appeared to be wearing their seat belt.

Logan County native Ashley Rae Black, 15, of Waltonville, Ill., has been missing since Jan. 20, and has been added as an “endangered runaway” to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children database.

The mother of two elementary-aged students is waging a public campaign against what she considers insufficient safety precautions in Bellefontaine grade schools.

Four Bellefontaine High School juniors will advance to the Ohio DECA Career Development Contest following their performances Monday at the Ohio DECA District 3 Competition at Ohio Northern University.

SIDNEY — A Jackson Center man faces up to five years in prison and a $10,000 fine after pleading guilty Tuesday in Shelby County Common Pleas Court to a charge of unlawful sexual conduct with a minor, a third-degree felony.

Cheryl J. Baird, 42, of 560 N. Oak St., Lakeview, was transported by an Indian Lake squad to Mary Rutan Hospital and later transferred to St. Rita’s Medical Center, Lima, for facial fractures incurred in a fight Wednesday night at 8890 Township Road 239, Lot 58, Lakeview.

Robert Mitchell Jr., of 428 Kent Drive, Apt. 9, told officers of the Bellefontaine Police Department he believes someone tried to leave information regarding a hit-skip crash over the weekend, but rainy weather made a note on his car’s windshield illegible.