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Eric Rodriguez, 33, Napoleon, pleaded guilty to assault and aggravated menacing, each a first-degree misdemeanor. He was placed on probation for two years, fined $500, ordered to have no contact with the victim and given 180 days in the Corrections Center of Northwest Ohio with credit for 79 days served …

Bryan City Schools is getting closer to having a full complement of bus drivers after this week’s school board meeting. The district began the school year short five bus drivers of the 24 needed for assigned bus routes. In the interim, staff members have stepped up to drive bus routes …

Paulding County authorities are still awaiting the return of a man charged with the killing of a Broughton-area couple last week. Clay Dockery, 23, Paulding, was being held in Ashtabula County in northeast Ohio where how was arrested last week and charged with two counts of murder, each an unclassified …

The Defiance City Council bid farewell to the city’s outgoing finance director during its last meeting of 2022. Council also learned of a change in recyclable collection, planned by Werlor Waste Control and approved three final ordinances, including the year-end appropriations legislation that will close out the city’s 2022 budgeting …

Ohioans would be required to present photo ID at the voting booth and have fewer days to apply for absentee ballots…or to vote early in person under a significantly rewritten bill that sped through committee and floor votes in the Ohio Senate. The legislation, which cleared the Republican-controlled chamber 24-6, …

The FDA will be holding a public meeting….concerning the environmental assessment for AquaBounty on Thursday. The public meeting starts at 1 p.m. and concerns the draft amended Environmental Assessment for the company’s genetically modified salmon. AquaBounty intends to build a farm in Pioneer that will produce 10,000 tons of genetically …

The Ohio Turnpike has announced the eight winners of its second annual Name-a-Snowplow contest. Each winner will receive a $100 dollar cash gift card. A snowplow truck will be named at the each of the Ohio Turnpike’s eight maintenance buildings, including Swanton. More than 5,500 snowplow names were submitted to …

A commercial insurance policy doesn’t cover the income a business lost when the governor ordered a shutdown early in the COVID-19 pandemic, that’s what the Ohio Supreme Court rules in a decision…consistent with multiple court rulings nationally weighing similar questions. The state’s high court found that the temporary presence of …

Paulding County deputies were dispatched to Road 123, in Latty Township, for a welfare check. Co-workers of 60-year-old Celecitas Williams were concerned she had not reported to work for two days, she hadn’t called in and she had not answered her phone. While conducting a check of the property, deputies …

A Waterloo man loses control of his truck and hits a utility pole in a solo crash in DeKalb County. 61-year-old David Richie was heading west on County Road 28 when he left the roadway…smashing into a utility pole before coming to a stop in a field. Richie was able …