The city of Fostoria and Fostoria Economic Development Corporation launched new websites today.  Officials state the reason for the website changes is two-fold: to provide accurate, easy-to-find information and to market the city.  The new website, located at www.fostoriaohio.gov.  Additionally, FEDC will also launch its own website.  Previously, their site was combined with the city, Fostoria Area Chamber of Commerce and the Fostoria Area Visitor’s Bureau.  The new site can be found at www.fostoriaedc.org.

The 2015 Findlay-Hancock County Halloween parade, presented by the Hancock Leadership Alumni Association, will be held in downtown Findlay at 7 p.m. October 27.  Any group, organization, business, school or individual interested in participating is required to register online at www.hancockleadership. org/parade. Registration opens September 13 and is available through October 23.  Early registration fees are $90 for floats, vehicles and walking groups, and $25 for nonprofit organizations.

Ohio's four casinos have generated about $479 million in revenue this year, and that total will rise as state regulators release the figures for August.  The latest monthly report is due Tuesday from the Ohio Casino Control Commission.  The casinos brought in about $69 million in July, which was up the previous month and also up slightly from the same month a year earlier.  About one-third of the revenue is collected in taxes and given mostly to counties, school districts and host cities.

A federal judge in Cincinnati has delayed a mental assessment hearing for a former bartender accused of threatening to kill House Speaker John Boehner. The judge already has ruled Michael Hoyt not guilty by reason of insanity. Hoyt has been diagnosed as bipolar and said he believed Boehner was the devil.