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The Amer­i­can Civil Lib­er­ties Union of Ohio has sent a let­ter to the super­in­ten­dent of the Edon North­west Local School Dis­trict ask­ing him to aban­don sec­tar­ian poli­cies and prac­tices that the ACLU claims vio­late the First Amend­ment to the U.S. Con­sti­tu­tion. The let­ter comes as the ACLU is inves­ti­gat­ing reports …

A Henry County woman was injured in a Mon­day evening crash. It hap­pened as 77 year old JoAnn Baden­hop of McClure was trav­el­ing west on US-24 in Lib­erty Town­ship, when her vehi­cle went out of con­trol, hit the median, then a sign, and finally stopped after flip­ping over twice. McClure, …

Bryan police report the arrest of 21 year old Kristo­pher Shutts [SHUTS] of Bryan on a Felony war­rant out of Steuben County Cir­cuit Court. The orig­i­nal charge against Shutts was Inter­fer­ence with Cus­tody. He was taken to CCNO. Also arrested on Mon­day… 21 year old Brook Lil­lard of Wes­ley Avenue …

In Defi­ance, city employee over­time costs topped $550,000 last year with the police and fire depart­ments account­ing for more than two-thirds of that expense. The Cres­cent News reports that city records indi­cate that $201,302 went for fire depart­ment over­time costs, and $156,194 was paid for police over­time… 64.3 per­cent of …

Sen­a­tor Cliff Hite of Find­lay, has announced that the state will invest $150,000 to sup­port indus­trial expan­sion in north­west Ohio. The $150,000 in fund­ing will go to road projects in Hicksville that sup­port the expan­sion of A&P Tool, Inc. The facil­ity, near State Route 49, will add 14,000 square feet …

A long-closed bridge in Lenawee County is in dan­ger of los­ing out on grant eli­gi­bil­ity. The bridge on Town­line High­way between Adrian and Rome has been closed since 2008, and the longer a bridge stays closed, the less pri­or­ity it receives for state fund­ing. In fact, the state is try­ing …

A three-year-old girl was killed last week in a south­ern Michi­gan house fire. Branch County sheriff’s deputies had to restrain the girl’s fam­ily from re-entering the house. It took a half-dozen fire teams about 90 min­utes to extin­guish the blaze, but they were never able to reach the girl due …

For­mer Toledo mayor Jack Ford passed away over the week­end at the age of 67. Ford had been at Toledo Hos­pi­tal for about ten days with flu-like symp­toms before dying on Sat­ur­day. Ford spent seven years in the Ohio House before serv­ing Toledo. The news comes just six weeks after …

Indi­ana Con­ser­va­tion offi­cers are inves­ti­gat­ing an acci­dent after the vic­tim was dis­cov­ered lying on the side of Route 27 north of Auburn late Fri­day night with a Honda ATV nearby. Two motorists found 42-year-old Travis L. Hypes of Water­loo, who was air­lifted to a Fort Wayne hos­pi­tal. Inves­ti­ga­tors are treat­ing …

A man from Defi­ance is accused of 14 child porn related charges. 25 year old Alexan­der Rose­brook pleaded not guilty at his arraign­ment on eight counts of pan­der­ing sexually-oriented mat­ter involv­ing a minor, and six counts of ille­gal use of a minor in nudity-oriented mate­r­ial or per­for­mance. All those charges …