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A Garrett man is in the hospital after suffering a head injury in a solo crash Monday afternoon. DeKalb County deputies say 73-year-old, Thomas Cook was eastbound in the 1700 block of County Road 60 when his vehicle left the roadway, continued through a ditch, over a driveway and eventually …

A water availability study conducted in Steuben County, shows a minimum water surplus of 5 million gallons a day of water. Angola officials hired INTERA, an environmental and water resources consulting firm based in Austin, Texas, to do a water study in the county. Officials say excess water availability is …

A Bellevue man involved in a Henry County pursuit is scheduled for a hearing here in Napoleon Municipal Court on 10 charges, including two felonies. Everett Lawson is being held in the Corrections Center of Northwest Ohio. The charges stem from an incident last week on U.S. 6 near McClure …

The Ohio State Highway Patrol is investigating a crash in Williams County that left two people with serious injuries. Responders were dispatched to the intersection of U.S. 6 and County Road 12C in Center Township. Officials say…53-year-old, Donald Williams of Auburn was driving a semitruck westbound on U.S. 6… as …

The office of Auburn Mayor, Michael Ley reports…long-serving Auburn Common Councilman Michael Walter died over the weekend. Dr. Mark Souder and Mayor Ley found Walter in his home while checking on him. Both had done a welfare check on Walter earlier in the week.) Walter, 76 was the lone Democrat …

Archbold schools were under lockdown during a police pursuit…one mile from Archbold High School and Archbold Elementary School. Officials say…at no time was there an immediate threat to any building, Soon after…the district was informed that the suspect had been apprehended…ending the lockdown. The campuses then resumed their regular schedules.

Republican Ohio House Speaker Jason Stephens is asserting that he controls his caucus and its campaign coffers, despite claims to the contrary by an unyielding, rival GOP group. It’s the latest chapter in a saga of infighting among the legislative chamber’s Republican supermajority…that is calling into question how lawmakers will …

An area woman…charged in a shooting last week…is bound over to a Defiance County grand jury. Cara Cordes, 60, waived her right to a preliminary hearing…on a charge of felonious assault, a second-degree felony. Her case now goes over to common pleas court for grand jury proceedings…expected to take place, …

The Paulding man…charged in a double homicide last month is arraigned in a Paulding County courtroom. Clay Dockery pled not guilty and not guilty by reason of insanity to two counts of aggravated murder. The judge accepted the verbal plea and asked that it be submitted to the court in …

Manuel Cruz Jr. is sentenced on three charges of gross sexual imposition. Cruz, 20, pled guilty to three charges, in all. He had two cases against him, having had two victims. In exchange for his plea, charges of unlawful restraint and rape, were dropped. Each of the gross sexual imposition …