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The Central Local Board of Education accepts the resignation of a popular elementary school principal during their meeting. Sheryl Brown has served as Fairview Elementary School principal since 2017, and her resignation takes effect on July 31. Her resignation comes a month after Roger Zeedyk, a former school board member, …

Reducing state funding to local municipalities by the amount those communities collected through the use of traffic cameras doesn’t violate the state Constitution, the Ohio Supreme Court ruled Thursday. The court also upheld the constitutionality of a law requiring that municipalities must pay an advance deposit to cover court costs …

Judges in Ohio would be required to consider criminal suspects’ threat to public safety when setting bail amounts under both legislation and a proposal for a state constitutional amendment being advanced by House Republicans. The GOP proposals followed a ruling by a divided Ohio Supreme Court earlier this year that …

The 2010 season of the Ohio State University football team, vacated after a memorabilia-for-cash scandal, should be restored because of recent changes allowing college athletes to be compensated, under a symbolic resolution approved by House lawmakers. The vacating of the season followed revelations that players in 2009 and 2010 accepted …

A Pioneer area resident is accused of attempted murder by a Williams County grand jury. Joshua Smallwood is said to have grabbed a woman by her neck, strangling her and throwing her to the ground on May 4. Smallwood was previously convicted of felonious assault, abduction and domestic violence in …

Williams County Commissioners agree to buy a third replacement ambulance for the county Emergency Medical Services. They had previously agreed to a pair of them for the EMS fleet, which currently includes two ambulances…with close to 400,000 miles on them.

Williams County residents can say goodbye to repeated Alert86 calls at 2 a.m. once the county transfers to a new provider in June. Officials say…the mass notification system will be under a new provider in a few weeks, switching from Hyper-Reach to a company called Regroup. The new system will …

A Kendallville man dies in a crash with a semi early, outside Garrett, on S.R. 8, near the Walmart Distribution Center. Officers arrived to find the victim unconscious and trapped in his car. 24-year-old, Mark Sloan was freed and taken to a local hospital, where he died a short time …

A motorcycle crash claims the life of an Orland man. Officials tell reporters…Kenneth Steele, 74, and his passenger 75-year-old Janice Steele were on the motorcycle, eastbound on State Road 120. In the other direction…someone is trying to make a left turn…into the path of the motorcycle. Both riders are ejected …

Gov., DeWine…delays…by three years…the September execution of a death row inmate…sentenced to die for killing two men in a robbery that netted $40. The governor’s action was one of several reprieves he’s issued in recent years as the state struggles to find an adequate supply of drugs for lethal injection. …