Sentence has been handed down to a man arrested in the 2021 murder of a Steuben County woman. 31 year old Matthew Hoover of Yorktown, Indiana was sentenced to 65 years in the murder of 82 year old Wilma Ball, and 30 years for breaking into her house on Lake …

The Williams County Juvenile Court is one of 51 Ohio courts slated to receive a total of $10.2 million dollars in grant funding to help reduce accumulated backlogs of pending court proceedings. The Williams County Juvenile Court gets $376,556 dollars to hire two deputy clerks and one truancy/diversion officer. Projects …

Doris Jean Ruhlin, age 93, of Lavonia, Georgia and formerly of Wauseon, Ohio, passed away on Friday, October 21, 2022 at AnMed, Anderson Medical Center in Anderson, South Carolina.  She lived a full life until she passed from a sudden and unexpected heart attack. She was born on September 28, …

Grace Cecilia Mary Cordell Moughler, age 89, of rural Montpelier, Ohio passed into heaven October 20, 2022 surrounded by loving family.  Upon her passing the sky lit up with a beautiful pastel sunset. Grace was born April 2, 1933 in Watertown, South Dakota to Nicholas John Cordell and Alice Rebecca …

Phyllis M. Herrington, age 86, of Colon, Michigan, and a longtime resident of the Bryan, Ohio, area died at12:45 P.M. on Thursday, October 20, 2022, at Ascension Borgess Hospital in Kalamazoo, Michigan, after a brief illness. Mrs. Herrington was a 1955 graduate of Edgerton High School and was employed by …

Staffing issues continue to be a challenge at Hillside Country Living, the county’s nursing home and assisted and independent living facility on County Road 16, north of Bryan. Overall staffing levels of nursing assistants, resident assistants, housekeepers and more have stabilized somewhat as the worst of the COVID pandemic has …

Many changes are coming to the Ohio Turnpike, including to the toll system that will allow for toll-free trips along certain routes. Adam Greenslade, director of governmental affairs, marketing and communications, gave an update to the Williams County Mayor’s Association during their monthly meeting in Holiday City. He said one …

The Ohio Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case in which a probate judge rejected a transgender woman’s request to correct her birth certificate, leading to a split in court rulings and guidance on the issue. Attorneys for the Clark County woman argue the judge’s ruling, upheld by the …

The Ohio Supreme Court orders a Democratic state legislative candidate to be listed on November ballots, after a tie had been broken against her by the state’s Republican elections chief. In its 4-3 ruling, the high court found Republican Secretary Frank LaRose and the two GOP members of the Athens …

An area boy dies in a crash in York Township. At this hour…officials are investigating the two-vehicle crash on County Road 10 at County Road E we reported on the other day. They say an SUV…southbound on County Road 10 driven by Baylor Barnum, of Louisville, Kentucky…collided with a Jeep …