Ohio will make sure that hundreds of non-compliant law enforcement agencies meet statewide performance standards, and it will add guidelines to that list for responding to mass protests. Governor, DeWine also is creating a new state office to recruit more black and female officers…all in response to George Floyd. The …

Students in Indiana will return to school in the coming months, but what that looks like will vary widely across the state. State Superintendent, Jennifer McCormick addressed teachers and administrators during a webinar, emphasizing the freedom local leaders have to determine how their schools will operate during the coronavirus pandemic. …

Most of Indiana’s casinos can reopen their doors as soon as next week under coronavirus safety plans they have submitted. The 13 state-regulated casinos have been closed since mid-March… coronavirus. The Indiana Gaming Commission required casino safety plans to include how they would encourage 6-foot distancing between gamblers and limit …

Donald C. Howard, age 88, of Delta, passed away Tuesday morning, June 9, 2020, at Fulton manor in Wauseon. Don served in the U.S. Army. He had worked for Dinner Bell Foods in Archbold. He had also farmed the family farm. Don was born in Fulton County, Ohio, on October …

Arden Shanks, 71 years, of New Haven, Indiana, and a former resident of Hicksville, passed away Tuesday, June 9, 2020, quietly at home.  Arden was born June 23, 1948, in Fort Wayne, Indiana, the son of the late Melvin and Lillian (Gustin) Shanks.  He was a 1966 graduate of Arcola …

Agripino O. “Pino” Garcia, age 81, of Stryker, passed away on Monday, June 8, 2020, at CHP-Defiance Area Inpatient Hospice. Prior to his retirement he had worked at Con Agra in Archbold for over 20 years. In his younger days he had been a farmer. Pino was born in Bischop, …

A crash at West High Street and Townline Road in Bryan. A car and pickup are involved. At least one person is hurt. The investigation continues.

The first drive-through COVID-19 test in Williams County is administered at Bryan Community Health Center. Officials at the facility on South Main Street hope the new, by-appointment testing process will help local efforts. It is a live virus test, in which a health center professional provides a cotton swab similar …

A McClure man is accused of shooting and killing his brother. Randall Ottinger, is charged with murder in Damascus Township. Officers were dispatched to a County Road 6 location on a shots fired call. Ottinger surrendered immediately. He is at the jail in Stryker. The victim has been identified as …

Gov. DeWine delays three additional executions as the state continues to struggle to find an adequate supply of drugs for lethal injection. DeWine attributed the need for the reprieves to the state’s ongoing inability to obtain drugs from pharmaceutical companies. DeWine has said for months he is concerned that drug …