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The One Step at a Time 5K Run/Walk celebrates its 10th anniversary, when the annual event gets underway Saturday, at Camp Lakota in Defiance. It’s held in memory of Scott Hammersmith, remembering those lost to suicide.

A Butler woman is hurt after she hit a trailer attached to a semi…stopped on County Road 40. Officials tell reporters…Peggy Puckett, 72, was westbound…where the big rig was stopped…with its hazard lights on. The driver of the semi was sitting in a forklift at the time. Puckett drove into …

Ohio Congressman, Bob Latta becomes the second member of Congress from Ohio to test positive this week for COVID-19, despite being vaccinated against the virus. The Republican lawmaker from the 5th Congressional District announced Tuesday he contracted the virus after he was exposed to someone who also tested positive. Latta’s …

Republican state Sen., Matt Dolan formally enters the race for Ohio’s open U.S. Senate seat… adding a centrist voice, more akin to exiting Rob Portman’s than to the crowded, Trump-aligned field of GOP hopefuls. In a telephone interview, Dolan said Portman’s work, building a bipartisan coalition to pass a $1 …

A Paulding County Commissioner died Monday morning of an apparent suicide. Responders are dispatched to a Cecil location…on the report of a dead body. There, deputies discovered the body of Clint Vance, 30, with an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. Vance was found in an outbuilding at his farm. He won …

There were 212 new COVID cases reported last week by the Fulton County Health Department. That is up from 145 new cases the previous week. At last check, there are 261 active cases in the county. There were 10 new hospitalizations but no new deaths. Fulton County’s case rate jumped …

A LaGrange man is killed after he is hit by a vehicle as he was walking alongside the road. An emergency team is called to South County Road 050 West…there they find John Lehman, 82. They say 63-year-old, Neil Peirson was the driver of the pickup in the collision. Lehman …

A plane crashes at the Defiance County Airport in Noble Township…this happened on Friday. Officials say the Cirrus SR 20 private aircraft plane was traveling northwest. The pilot brings the plane in for a landing…something happens…and the little aircraft goes off the left side of the runway. It’s landing gear …

Fire destroys a pickup truck at a County Road E.75 location. The owner is getting ready for bed…suddenly…someone is beating on his front door. It’s the neighbor…and over his shoulder…the owner’s truck…in flames…in the driveway. Investigators on the fire team think the blaze started in the cab. The heat then …

Steuben County deputies get the call…someone in Pleasant Lake has a knife…and he’s holding it against himself. They get to the scene…that’s when the man started carving himself in the head, upper body…and arms. The officers scream for him to stop. He doesn’t. A bean bag…fired from a shotgun…and then …