(2 pm) Power is back on locally, according to Ohio Edison.
"All customers were restored by 1:30 p.m. The outage was caused by an equipment issue on a transmission line in the area. Our crews were able to switch impacted customers over to a backup power line while they investigate and address the cause of the outage on their primary line."
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Ohio Edison is reporting that 8,290 customers are without power in Richland County. Power is expected to be restored by around 3:30 pm today ( Thursday), according to First Energy. Nearly 5,000 customers are without power in Mansfield, which a caller reported an outage as far as the airport area. Some parts of Madison Township were without power too. No word on the cause of the outage.