“My life is yours, Lord, glorify Yourself!” was the cry of Brian Shaw’s heart when he received his terminal diagnosis of glioblastoma in 2018. This was a consistent prayer his entire life long. Brian’s deepest desire was to know Christ and to make Him known. On April 22, 2021, God …

Joanne Leffew Hootman “Jo”, 84, died peacefully on Wednesday, April 21, 2021 in her home in Hicksville, Ohio.  She was born and raised in Monroe, Michigan.  Jo married John Hootman, of Hicksville, in 1961.  She loved to travel and to experience foreign cultures.  Both of which she did extensively during …

A $75 billion dollar state budget…containing a 2% personal income tax cut and an overhaul of the state’s system for funding schools clears the Ohio House. The massive blueprint lays out spending for state programs for the two years, beginning July 1. It must next clear the Ohio Senate, where …

A GOP-backed bill, introduced this week, would change the name of an Ohio state park to honor former President, Donald Trump. The bill, primarily sponsored by freshman state Rep. Mike Loychik, to rename Mosquito Lake State Park to Donald J. Trump State Park…is the latest attempt by Ohio Republicans to …

State or local governments in Indiana will be prohibited from issuing or requiring COVID-19 vaccine passports, under a bill approved by state lawmakers. The Republican-dominated House and Senate voted by wide margins to approve a wide-ranging health care and insurance bill that included the vaccine passport ban. The ones in …

Health officials confirm…Williams County has jumped up to the second highest case rate in the state, with 125 new patients reported among the county’s 36 thousand residents. That’s a rate of 340 people, per 100,000. The number comes from the April 6th to 19th timeframe. The county is now behind …

A Montpelier man…accused of raping a 12-year-old girl is indicted by a Williams County grand jury. Prosecutors say Austin Schudel committed the crime, in September. Schudel is a registered sex offender…found guilty in 2018 of sexual imposition…after Montpelier Police said he had sexual contact with a 15-year-old girl.

A man is badly hurt…after a multi-county police chase ends in a shootout, in Kendallville. The police tries to stop a vehicle for reckless driving, near Harris and Olympia Court in Fort Wayne. The vehicle instead heads off…with the police in tow…on a high speed pursuit through northwest Allen County…then, …

A 54-year-old man is dead after he loses control of his vehicle on Highway 24. Officials say the wet roadway is a factor in the accident, half a mile east of Jewel Road, near Defiance. They say Lyle Smith, of Ney, was driving an SUV westbound…when he went into the …

Richard M. “Dick” Miller, age 82, of Edon, Ohio, passed away on Monday, April 19, 2021, in his home. Mr. Miller was a graduate of Edon High School and was employed by Simpson Industries as a quality inspector, retiring with thirty years of service. He enjoyed working on cars and …