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There’s a big movement in the plans to make the drive from Northwest Ohio to Columbus easier. Lots more details and a price tag have to be ironed out, but it could also mean more businesses wanting to call this area home. If the bypass around the busy area of …

On September 23rd, the Bryan Police Department was called to a domestic dispute on South Main Street in Bryan. It was found that, after a verbal disagreement between family members, 20 year old Rowan M. Seidman, of Bryan, had stabbed his 18-year-old brother in the neck, resulting in serious injuries. …

Defiance police have issued two citations against a Napoleon woman in the wake of a vehicle-motorcycle crash that claimed the life of a Defiance motorcyclist earlier this month. 81 year old Carol Dietrich was charged with vehicular manslaughter, a second-degree misdemeanor, and failure to yield, a minor misdemeanor, following the …

A Defiance County commissioner will be stepping down soon. David Kern, who began his second, four-year term this year, submitted a letter of resignation Monday to the Defiance County Board of Elections announcing his decision. Because Kern is a Republican, the county’s Republican Party will be tasked with finding a …

A Defiance man was sentenced recently in Fulton County Common Pleas Court to more than two decades in prison on 10 child sexual abuse charges. 56 year old Glenn Bennett was given a 25-year prison term by Judge Scott Haselman on 10 counts of gross sexual imposition. He also was …

A statewide human trafficking operation led by the Ohio Attorney General’s Office resulted in 135 arrests, including multiple people from northwest Ohio and one from southeast Michigan, officials announced Monday. The initiative, called Operation Next Door, was carried out by more than 100 federal, state and local law enforcement agencies …

The Hillshire Brands Co., based in Haltom City, Texas, is recalling roughly 58 million pounds of corn dogs and sausage-on-a-stick products over concerns they may contain pieces of wood embedded in the batter, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service. The recall affects products packaged …

July and August were successful fundraising months for the Caring & Sharing Food Pantry as nearly $7,000 was received from two fundraising efforts: a bus trip to Holmes County and the 127 yard sale, according to a media release from the organization. The bus trip sold out for a third …

Around Oct. 6, weather permitting, crews from the Edgerton Water Department will begin flushing water mains and exercising fire hydrants throughout the village. This process is expected to take approximately five days to complete. Hydrant flushing is a critical part of maintaining the water system.

An invasive moth threatening one of Ohio’s most popular landscape plants has been detected in four more counties, state agriculture officials said. The Ohio Department of Agriculture confirmed that box tree moths were found in monitoring traps in Ashtabula, Clark, Cuyahoga and Preble counties. The moth, first detected in Ohio …