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Williams County offi­cials are con­tem­plat­ing the impact of the pos­si­ble defec­tion of Toledo and Lucas County from the Cor­rec­tions Cen­ter of North­west Ohio. The CCNO put out the alarm that Lucas county and Toledo are think­ing about pulling out and build­ing their own jail that could house more than a …

The inves­ti­ga­tion con­tin­ues into the Sun­day crash that killed a Defi­ance woman and injured 6 oth­ers. The Ohio High­way Patrol says a Chevy Impala dri­ven by 22 year-old Micayla Fitzsim­mons of Defi­ance was head­ing east on Stein­maier Road when it crashed a stop sign and was T-boned by a north­bound …

Ohio State is adding a rarely-played, but pop­u­lar, oppo­nent to its future foot­ball sched­ule but the games won’t hap­pen for 8 years from now. The Buck­eyes announced they will play Notre Dame in a home-and-home series in 2022 and 2023.

The Ful­ton County Fair Board is try­ing to find a draw to next year’s fair as good as Lee Brice and Cole Swindell and the doo­bie Broth­ers, after set­ting records this year. Atten­dance on Sat­ur­day before last was more than 62 thou­sand and on Sun­day it was more than 63 …

Deputies in Henry County say the crash that killed a Napoleon man is under inves­ti­ga­tion but are inclined to find it an acci­dent and it is unlikely charges will be filed. 26 year-old Bran­don West­hoven was walk­ing on State Route 109 in Lib­erty Town­ship in the dark at 10pm, when …

A Napoleon woman was injured Fri­day in a one-car crash. 56 year-old Beth Mar­shall lost con­trol of her car on Ohio 18 in Hol­gate and crashed into a util­ity pole. She was taken by Hol­gate EMS to Henry County Hos­pi­tal, where her con­di­tion was not disclosed.

Sauder Vil­lage in Arch­bold is invit­ing every­body to an event Sat­ur­day at which many ways of sav­ing fam­ily his­to­ries will be dis­cussed. It is called Pre­serv­ing Our Mem­o­ries and experts in geneal­ogy, scrap­book­ing and heir­loom preser­va­tion will instruct those who come how to pre­serve fam­ily pho­tos and doc­u­ments. Other top­ics …

A for­mer police offi­cer in Hicksville is await­ing sen­tenc­ing on var­i­ous charges after plead­ing guilty of domes­tic vio­lence and using the Ohio Law Enforce­ment Gate­way police data­base with­out autho­riza­tion. Charges of men­ac­ing by stalk­ing and pos­sess­ing crim­i­nal tools were dis­missed. Nathan Metz was arrested after being accused of threat­en­ing phys­i­cal …

The State of Ohio has begun the appeal of a rul­ing against it on early vot­ing. State offi­cials intended to cut evening and week­end hours dur­ing which peo­ple could vote early. But a fed­eral judge blocked them from doing that, sid­ing with civil rights groups who said that dis­crim­i­nates against …

The Bryan police depart­ment asks that you save the date of Fri­day, Octo­ber 10. That’s when they present a pro­gram called Oper­a­tion Street Smart at the New Era Audi­to­rium on West Mul­berry Street in Bryan. They will edu­cate par­ents and teach­ers and social work­ers and any­body with reg­u­lar con­tact with …