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Several Republicans competing for the party’s nomination to run for U.S. Senate in Ohio are facing scrutiny for their ties to Russia as the country intensifies its war against Ukraine. Much of the attention has focused on former Ohio Republican Party Chair, Jane Timken, whose husband’s family founded a company …

A fire destroys a Ney home, early Sunday. Crews were called to the Main St. location to put out the blaze…then, had to return a few hours later, after it flared back up again. One official tells reporters it looks like something in the electrical system started the fire. No …

The Montpelier Village Council approves moving $900,000 dollars to work as an advance payment for the village’s last combined sewer overflow project. A CSO is when untreated stormwater and sewage overflow in local streams and rivers. Montpelier has so far fixed six of these with the last one coming up …

The chief of the Ohio Department of Natural Resources issues approval of a Water Withdrawal and Consumptive Use Permit Application from AquaBounty Farms…for a proposed water well field near Pioneer. AquaBounty proposes a 479,000-square-foot facility in Pioneer to raise commercial genetically modified salmon, with an initial withdrawal from the local …

A Toledo doctor…who denied doing any harm to his patients after being convicted of overprescribing painkillers…is sentenced to five years in prison. A federal judge also ordered Dr. William Bauer to pay $460,000 in restitution. Bauer, 85, was convicted last summer on charges of distributing controlled substances at his office. …

A Defiance woman has won a $1 million dollar prize, the Ohio Lottery recently announced. Rachel Yonge of Defiance won the top prize on the Ohio Lottery Scratch-Off, Extreme Cash game. She chose the cash option of $1 million and will $720,000…after taxes. She bought her winning ticket at the …

A federal judge on Friday set a January 2023 trial date for the former Ohio Houser speaker facing a 2 1/2-year-old racketeering conspiracy charge in an alleged $60 million bribery scheme. Ex-GOP Speaker Larry Householder is accused of leading the scheme secretly funded by Akron-based FirstEnergy Corp. to win legislative …

Police are investigating a body that was found in DeKalb County near North County Line Road and State Road. The case continues.

Overseas absentee ballots could arrive up to 20 days after Ohio’s primary election and still be counted…under emergency legislation approved by the General Assembly, Thursday…amid debate over new state legislative maps. The measure headed to Gov., DeWine also requires those ballots…mostly for members of the military…to be ready, no later …

Gov., DeWine, facing a competitive 2022 reelection race, will skip this month’s Republican primary debate, event organizers say on Thursday. The nonpartisan Ohio Debate Commission tells the media…the governor did not give a reason for declining to participate in the March 29 debate, adding that it hopes he will reconsider. …