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It’s now been deter­mined that it was light­ning that caused that home explo­sion a week ago at Snow Lake in Steuben County. Fire inves­ti­ga­tors found burn holes where the light­ning came out through a gas line in the crawl­space. Inves­ti­ga­tors now say they think the crawl­space filled with gas after …

Some sur­veil­lance cam­eras in the state are under scrutiny. A few more speed­ing cam­eras have gone dark in Ohio, after the lat­est in a string of court rul­ings against auto­mated traf­fic enforce­ment. In But­ler County last week, a judge ordered one vil­lage to pull the plug on enforce­ment cam­eras, say­ing …

The Ohio High­way Patrol this morn­ing is say­ing that a Defi­ance woman was killed in a single-vehicle crash Thurs­day morn­ing in Defi­ance County. Police say a car dri­ven by 50 year old Kathy Browns of Defi­ance ran off Defi­ance County Road 424 and slammed into a util­ity pole. The crash …

Once again, snow emer­gen­cies were announced yes­ter­day in many areas of North­west Ohio due to blow­ing and drift­ing snow, as the win­ter of 2013–14 just won’t give up. Williams and Henry Coun­ties were reported to be oper­at­ing on Level 2 emer­gen­cys, while Ful­ton and Defi­ance Coun­ties were at level 1. …

The Ohio House voted last week to approve four addi­tional calamity days for the state’s school dis­tricts because of this winter’s extreme weather, after many school dis­tricts across the state sim­ply ran out of extra days. This bill still awaits approval by the Sen­ate. If the Sen­ate bill ends up …

Sears Home­town and Out­let Stores, Inc. announces the open­ing of a new Sears Home­town Store on Main Street in Adrian. The new store is cel­e­brat­ing its grand open­ing today through March first by offer­ing an addi­tional dis­count of 10 per­cent off almost every­thing in the store, plus spe­cial give­aways, includ­ing …

The Ohio Sen­ate signed off this week on leg­is­la­tion allow­ing peo­ple here in Ohio to buy cer­tain items over a three-day period with­out pay­ing any state or local sales taxes. The sales tax hol­i­day would begin on the first Fri­day of August and cover school sup­plies, com­put­ers and sup­plies. The …

Two employ­ees received spe­cial recog­ni­tion dur­ing the Feb. 26 meet­ing of the Cor­rec­tions Com­mis­sion of North­west Ohio. Cor­rec­tions Super­vi­sor Jason Wise­cup was named CCNO Employee of the year for 2013. Jason has been employed at CCNO since 2004. Michael Jor­dan was named the Top Con­tract Employee for 2013. Michael is …

Increas­ing prison trans­ports high­lighted Wednesday’s meet­ing of the Cor­rec­tions Com­mis­sion of North­west Ohio. Also, board mem­bers took time to tour newly painted units within the 638-bed facil­ity. CCNO Exec­u­tive Direc­tor Jim Den­nis told the board that Lucas County offi­cials had expressed con­cern about the num­ber of prison runs CCNO is …

Some arrests by Bryan Police, and this time around, many of those arrested were placed behind bars. They include 35 year old Jay L. Hahn of Bryan, who was arrested on a bench war­rant out of Bryan Munic­i­pal Court. Was taken to CCNO. 22 year old Jacob C. Hite was …