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A drug policy reform group has sued the state panel that will decide how Ohio distributes more than half of the money it will receive from a nationwide settlement…regarding the opioid addiction crisis. Harm Reduction Ohio filed two lawsuits against the OneOhio Recovery Foundation Board, claiming the panel isn’t following …

An Ohio man is in custody after being accused of sending about three-dozen feces-filled letters to lawmakers around the country, including Ohio’s 25 Republican state senators in early July. Officers arrested Richard Steinle, a former Common Pleas Court mediator. Steinle is charged with sending “injurious articles as nonmailable, violating a …

A suspect wanted in Ohio, in the shooting deaths of four people, including a teenage girl, has been arrested in Kansas. 39-year-old Stephen Marlow was taken into custody by local police in Lawrence. Officials say, Marlow will be extradited to Ohio to face charges in the slayings. Officers were called …

A Wauseon man…wanted on charges related to the death of a three-year-old girl…turns himself into police. Officials tell reporters…Devon Harris was taken into custody without incident and is held at the Corrections Center of Northwest Ohio. On Friday, an arrest warrant was issued for Harris…for felonious assault and murder. Wauseon …

Northwest State Community College is recognized as an Apprenticeship Ambassador by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Apprenticeship. The Apprenticeship Ambassador Initiative seeks to create a national network of employers, labor organizations, industry associations, program sponsors and other stakeholders to serve as champions for expanding and diversifying Registered Apprenticeship. …

Brandi Frisbie has been terminated as director of the Williams County Communications Agency. Frisbie, who also served as deputy director of the Williams County Emergency Management Agency since 2018, was terminated after a July 21 hearing on four charges. One charge is that she failed to renew her Law Enforcement …

A Lorain woman…driving the wrong way…dies in a two-vehicle crash in Swanton on Friday…along Airport Highway, near Turtle Creek Drive. Officials tell reporters…Patience Chaney was westbound in the eastbound lanes of Airport Highway. As this is going on…an SUV, driven by Joshua Wheeler, of Swanton, was eastbound. The head on …

At least one person dies after a head on collision, east of Orland, on State Road 120 near County Road 850 West in Steuben County, near Milgrove Township. The first units on the scene found four injured people in a passenger car, and an injured driver in a pick-up truck. …

In Hicksville…officers continue to search for the suspects who robbed the Shell Spee-D-Mart on W. High St. The bandits?…two Black males…one producing a handgun. One of the suspects wore a surgical mask. Officials tell reporters…they were able to get away on foot with money and lottery tickets. Defiance County deputies, …

Wednesday’s severe thunderstorm caused scattered damage in Defiance and the area, that’s according to the National Weather Service’s North Webster, Ind. office. The storm was most disruptive on the east side…where a couple of electric poles went down, including one with a transformer attached. That one crossed Ottawa Avenue and …