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A four vehicle crash shuts down Interstate-69 in both lanes for a time. Officials say the accident happened in DeKalb County near County Road 11-A in Auburn, along mile marker 326. Traffic was snarled for over an hour. The crash sent at least 3 people to hospital. They say driver …

Gov. DeWine has ordered flags in parts of the state lowered to half-staff to honor an Ohio soldier killed in Afghanistan. This…at all public buildings and grounds throughout Williams County and at the Ohio Statehouse, the Vern Riffe Center and the Rhodes State Office Tower in Columbus. The order honoring …

After two years as Edgerton Elementary principal, Brent Saneholtz has resigned and a new administrator has been hired in his place. Saneholtz is departing for a job as an educational consultant at the Northwest Ohio Educational Service Center in Archbold. Prior to his time at Edgerton, Saneholtz served in a …

While not initially included as receiving disaster declaration for farmers from the United States Department of Agriculture, a second declaration was issued by the department, covering both Williams and Fulton counties. According to an estimate from the Williams County Farm Service Agency, 70 percent of corn acres in the county …

Ohio is still struggling to find supplies of lethal injection drugs amid fears it could be cut off from drugs needed for medicinal purposes…if their makers learn they’re also being used for executions. That has left the fate of executions in the near future in limbo. They have been on …

A local tragedy. Officials with the Pentagon confirm a soldier from Williams County died while serving in Afghanistan. Pfc. Brandon Kreischer, he was 20, of Stryker, died in a firefight in the southern part of the country. They say it happened on Monday. Kreischer went to Bryan High School and …

Williams County doesn’t get on the list of counties to receive a disaster declaration from the Department of Agriculture. Fulton County didn’t make it either. They were the only two counties in the northwest part of the state not to get on the declaration. Some local officials are surprised about …

A newly formed council of governments…the result of local efforts to band together the nine counties in three states that draw water from the Aquifer, held its first organizational meeting in Bryan. Formally called the Ohio, Michigan, Indiana Council of Government, the panel marks its first priorities as identifying the …

Hey shoppers!…Seven hundred miles worth of potential treasure awaits this weekend. It’s the annual U.S. 127 Sale. It runs this Friday through Sunday. The yearly tradition now snakes its way through six states…Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama…from Addison, Michigan, in the north to Gadsden, Alabama, in the south. …

Back to school time means hitting the books for students, but with the help of a looming state holiday of sorts, parents shouldn’t have to hit their own books as hard to pay for necessary materials. The now permanent summertime sales tax holiday in Ohio, held each year on the …