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At this hour…2.2 million Ohio residents have cast their ballot for the 2020 general election. Officials say the doubling of the number of returned absentee ballots, relative to 2016, is a very strong indicator that election mail is moving quickly and voters in the state are easily able to cast …

Ohio employers will receive a record $5 billion dollars in repayments from the state insurance fund for injured workers, to help with the financial impact from coronavirus. The return of the dividends marks the third such payment this year to help struggling businesses. The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation sent …

A Defiance woman is sentenced in Defiance County for a stabbing incident on Harrison Avenue, last year. Audrey Foust gets four to six-years behind bars, with credit for 339 days served in the Corrections Center of Northwest Ohio, while her case was pending. Attempted murder charges were dropped in the …

A Napoleon man enters a plea in a Henry County courtroom. Eric Gossman pleads guilty to felonious assault…accused of threatening a city police officer with a potentially deadly weapon during a theft investigation. A pre-sentence investigation is ordered and his $100,000 cash bond continued. Sentencing is scheduled for Dec. 8. …

Michael Strykul of Columbus Grove is charged with failure to comply with a lawful order of a police officer and DUI…this, after an alleged kidnapping attempt is made. Strykul was taken into custody….additional charges are pending. Dispatch got the call on N. High St. Apparently he took a child from …

Just a week from Election Day, more than 35% of registered voters in area counties have either voted in-person or been provided an absentee ballot as requested. In Defiance, Fulton, Henry, Paulding, Putnam and Williams counties, officials confirm 50,023 voters had been either turned in an absentee ballot or voted …

A downtown Wauseon bar is cited for violating state health orders…coronavirus. Agents entered DB Downtown Billiards, on N. Fulton St. They say the place had so many people gathered…the agents had difficulty walking through the establishment. They also noticed the bar’s permit holder, selling alcoholic beverages and allowing them to …

A month after President, Trump was there, Vice President, Mike Pence was at Toledo Express Airport in Swanton Township to make the case for four more years of their administration. Since then?…multiple members of Pence’s staff have tested positive for COVID-19. The vice president, along with his wife, they test …

Eight more COVID-19 deaths are reported in Fulton County over the last week. The total now stands at 14…nine, at long-term care facilities. Right now…the total number of hospitalizations in the county is 41. This…as Fulton County sees another relatively large weekly increase in COVID-19 cases…as the total number climbs …

Ohio Attorney General, Dave Yost files a complaint with the state Elections Commission over the former Ohio House speaker’s use of more than $900,000 dollars in campaign contributions…to pay attorneys defending him in a federal racketeering case. Larry Householder is accused of masterminding a $60 million bribery scheme, secretly funded …