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According to a report by health policy officials, projected changes in health care funding brought by legislation under consideration in Washington could add 152,000 children and 970,000 adults to Ohio’s uninsured roles by 2022.

Assistant elementary school principal, Kirsten Coffman is chosen as elementary school principal by the Hicksville Board of Education. Her responsibilities extend from kindergarten through fourth grade. The school’s assistant principal position has been eliminated as a cost-cutting procedure.

The fourth annual Montpelier Bean Days Balloon Fest returns to the Tri-State area, tomorrow and Saturday…when there will be a Hot Air Balloon Fly Over at 7 a-m and the 61st Annual Bean Days Parade at 1 p-m. The parade will start at the Williams County Fairgrounds and head west …

The Paulding Board of Education hires a new treasurer. Kimberly Jones, who has served in the same position at the Western Buckeye Educational Service Center for the past 3 1/2 years, will take over the post. A resident of Defiance and a graduate of Continental High School, Jones earned bachelor’s …

Williams County Airport officials say they hope to begin construction on the first phase of a taxiway expansion project by the fall of 2018. The airport will move the existing taxiway back from the runway, while extending it 1,700 feet. That extension will bring the taxiway all the way to …

The wife of a Toledo pastor, charged in federal court with child sex trafficking, is temporarily suspended from her full-time duties as Lucas County administrator. Laura Lloyd-Jenkins, wife of Pastor Cordell Jenkins, received a letter from Lucas County Commissioners’ President Pete Gerken, notifying her of the suspension. Lloyd-Jenkins’ suspension starts …

A sentence is handed down, following a fatal collision last fall. Michael Penza of Camden, Michigan will do ten-plus years in prison for a deadly drunk driving crash…he was also sentenced 38 months to 10 years on a charge of possession of meth. Penza pled no contest to both charges …

Federal authorities end their investigation of the fatal police shooting of a black man in a Walmart store, concluding there wasn’t enough evidence to charge the white officer who killed him. The officer shot John Crawford III on Aug. 5, 2014, after police responded to an emergency call about someone …

A crash on the Toll Road near Middlebury leaves a Sturgis man dead. 41-year-old Brian Fox died when his westbound car crossed the median and was struck by an eastbound van. Fox died at the scene. The other driver, 61-year-old Robert Stadnycki of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, was treated at Memorial Hospital …

Steuben County deputies respond to N SR 827 in Steuben County on a report of a vehicle accident. They found a pick-up truck off the roadway on its top. The driver, 23 year old Brandon Robinson of Fremont, was standing outside of the overturned vehicle. Robinson told officers he was …