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The Northwest State Community College Board of Trustees approves legislation to bring a campus to the city of Van Wert. The board okayed the purchase of the E. Sycamore St. location, for $495,000, pending an appraisal. Northwest State is planning to use the plot to launch a full-service campus in …

Medicaid enrollees in Ohio can begin selecting from among a new slate of managed care plans, beginning today. As part of the Ohio Medicaid Next Generation initiative, millions of enrollees in the government health care program for low-income Americans must choose from seven managed care plans or be assigned one. …

A Northwest Ohio district has won top tap prize at an international water tasting contest. Montpelier takes home first place for Best Municipal Water at the 32nd annual Berkeley Springs International Water Tasting in West Virginia. This is the fifth time Montpelier has won the prize.

Defiance County commissioners approve a new contract for electricity supplied to county facilities. The pact with Dynegy was OK’d following discussions with Amy Hoffman of Palmer Energy. She is a consultant with the County Commissioners Association of Ohio and assists county commissioners in approving new electric contracts that allow savings …

The CCNO board agrees to split $1.4 million dollars in leftover funds from its 2021 operating budget…and deposit $720 thousand, each, into its capital and reserve funds. The figure is attributed to higher fees to the regional jail for federal inmates from the U.S. Marshal’s Office housed at CCNO, in …

A third person implicated in a robbery and assault in Defiance last spring has been sentenced to prison. Emilee Slusser, of Bradford, is given a four- to six-year sentence. She was given credit for 50 days served in the Corrections Center of Northwest Ohio while her case was pending. Two …

An extraordinary showdown…that would have brought a high-powered line-up of Ohio’s political mapmakers before justices of the Ohio Supreme Court…was continued Friday, after the state’s Republican-controlled redistricting panel delivered the court a third set of legislative maps…that its majority insists are now constitutional. The decision did not end the fight …

An Ohio business says its insurance company must compensate it for financial losses suffered during a pandemic-related shutdown. The insurance company refused to pay, saying its policy didn’t cover such losses. The Ohio Supreme Court heard arguments from both sides this month. At issue before the court is a policy …

A third person implicated in a robbery and assault in Defiance last spring has been sentenced to prison. Emilee Slusser, of Bradford, is given a four- to six-year sentence. She was given credit for 50 days served in the Corrections Center of Northwest Ohio while her case was pending. Two …

That political stalemate over Ohio’s new legislative maps plunges the state into confusion…even as members of a new map-drawing commission defend themselves against potential contempt charges they face…for failing to meet the latest court order, requiring them to stop gerrymandering. Members of the bipartisan Ohio Redistricting Commission…including Gov., DeWine…tried to …