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Ayersville Local Board of Education met in special session Wednesday afternoon to take action on a grievance and unfair labor practice settlement filed through the State Employment Relations Board (SERB). The board rejected the settlement by a vote of 3-2. The board had initially appealed SERB’s order concerning the nature …

While embattled Sandusky County Sheriff Kyle Overmyer remains on Tuesday’s election ballot, he’ll be spending election day behind bars. The Toledo Blade reports a judge revoked bond Thursday for Sheriff Overmyer and sent him to jail as he faces multiple felony drug, theft, and record tampering charges. In August, visiting …

Protesters held a demonstration against the Dakota Access pipeline yesterday at the Swanton post of the Ohio Highway Patrol. Members of the Northwest Ohio Peace Coalition said they want the 37 Ohio Highway Patrol troopers providing security in North Dakota to return from their assignment. Local organizers called the pipeline …

The Paulding Education Association (PEA) has filed an Unfair Labor Practice (ULP) charge against the Paulding Exempted Village Board of Education, over the board’s lack of action in not filling the district’s librarian position. The charge has been filed by the PEA with the State Employment Relation Board (SERB), as …

Two men are facing felony charges after Ohio State Highway Patrol troopers located fraudulent World Series Tickets in a vehicle during a traffic stop in Wood County. Troopers stopped a 2015 Chevrolet Impala, with Illinois registration, for a lane change violation on Interstate 80 near milepost 69, at 9:31a.m. on …

Defiance City Council considered legislation making some employee position changes to the finance department during its Tuesday night meeting, and also presided as Mayor Mike McCann recognized the county’s long-time sheriff on his approaching retirement. An ordinance concerning the aforementioned changes was let lie along with an unrelated resolution because …

The panel working on putting the state’s new medical marijuana law in place has come up with some rules for sites where marijuana would be grown in Ohio. And the number of proposed growing sites has upset activists who’ve had questions about the new law. The Ohio Department of Commerce’s …

A Defiance County man has been charged with rape after an alleged incident at his residence Saturday morning. 36 year old Clint Krill, 36 of The Bend Road in Sherwood, was arrested by the Defiance County Sheriff’s Office and taken to the Corrections Center of Northwest Ohio, rural Stryker. According …

Voters in Williams County have only one countywide contested race on the ballot this election, when they decide between Republican Terry Rummel and Independent Rodney Miller for the open county commissioner seat. Miller or Rummel will replace Alan Word, who decided in June of 2015 not to run for re-election. …

With just days to go before the election, hundreds of absentee ballots are having to be re-issued in northwest Ohio. Secretary of State Jon Husted said there was a problem when the ballots got hung up in a post office in Michigan. Husted described the situation as being completely unacceptable. …