Racing finally returned to Millstream Speedway in Findlay.  After rain ruined several attempts for the grand re-opening of the local racetrack, mother nature cooperated and a crowd of 5000 welcomed racing back to Findlay.  Cody Darrah of Red Lion, Pennsylvania took home the victory in the 410 wing sprint All-Star Circuit of Champions.  Local drivers Chad Kemenah of Alvada and Greg Wilson of Benton Ridge remain in the hunt for the season championship with each driver in third and fourth in the season standings after Sunday.

Experts say rain in Ohio is drowning crop fields and preventing others from being planted altogether.  An agricultural economist at Ohio State University says 2 million to 3 million acres of corn won't be planted in Ohio alone, and analysts predict between 4 million and 5 million acres of soybeans across the country will go unplanted.

City leaders in Toledo still are waiting to find out if Jeep Wrangler production will stay in its longtime home.  The CEO of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles had said last year that he expected a decision by the end of June.  The automaker is considering moving the Wrangler assembly line out of Toledo so it can be made with a partial aluminum body.  City officials say that they don't know when an announcement will be made.

The state of Ohio is beginning to offer $12 million in incentives for farmers who are taking steps to reduce the pollutants that wash off their fields and feed the toxic algae in western Lake Erie. That's on top of new rules banning farmers in northwest Ohio from spreading manure on rain-soaked fields and requiring training before farmers can use commercial fertilizers.

The National Park Service will keep a full-time superintendent and staff at a Lake Erie island monument.  U.S. Rep. Marcy Kaptur said Perry’s Victory and International Peace Memorial on South Bass Island will remain a separate unit of the park system.  The park service had considered combining the staff overseeing Perry’s monument and the River Raisin National Battlefield Park in southeastern Michigan.  The 350-foot tall monument in Ohio commemorates a key victory in the War of 1812.

Two men in northeast Ohio spent part of the holiday weekend promoting safe and sober driving as a judge's punishment for their repeated drunken driving offenses.  An Ashtabula Municipal Court 48-year-old Jeffrey Yenyo and 54-year-old Marcus Perry to stand at an Ashtabula intersection Friday and Saturday evenings while holding handmade warning signs about drinking and driving.  Yenyo, of Geneva, has seven previous DUI charges. Perry, of Ashtabula, has two.

Gas prices in Ohio are down to start the work week after the long holiday weekend.  A gallon of regular gas in Ohio was averaging $2.70, down 11 cents from last week.  Average prices in Ohio were below the nation's average, which was $2.77 per gallon.  Ohio gas prices have remained significantly cheaper than last year at this time, when prices were averaging $3.57 per gallon.