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In DeKalb County…officials tell reporters…an Ohio man was speeding…and drinking…when he drove off State Road 8…crashing into a tree. The SUV is found…facing south…resting on the driver’s side of the vehicle. The driver, 25-year-old Austin Ziehr of Edgerton…is pinned inside the vehicle. Crash investigators think the SUV drifted off the …

GOP members of the Ohio congressional delegation on Friday…asked House and Senate leaders to fully fund a law…meant to address the global shortage of semiconductor chips, used in phones, cars and video games. The request comes as multiple media reports say Santa Clara, California-based Intel…intends to build a massive computer-chip …

Gov., DeWine says he has no regrets about his response to the coronavirus pandemic…even if Republican voters who thought he went too far are angry enough to vote him out in the upcoming May primary. DeWine is running for a second four-year term, which he has said will mark the …

The claims of juror bias by an Ohio death row inmate…who killed two girls in a robbery…can be further explored, a divided federal appeals court rules. At issue before the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is an appeal by Jeronique Cunningham, sentenced to die for the killing of two …

Bryan crews take on two fires within minutes of each other. The first?…at the Woodland Estates Mobile Home Park on County Road 15.75. A dumpster is on fire. That blaze is quickly handled. Then…another call comes in. This time at a County Road H.50 location. Other fire teams from the …

The cops get a call…Thomas Wilson is driving through peoples’ front yards, near Curtis Street in Defiance. Soon…officers spot his car…behind the Main Stop on Curtis. Wilson takes off with the police in tow. Soon after…Wilson loses a tire. So he takes off on foot. Moments later…he’s in the cruiser…heading …

Many citizens in Pioneer will again receive a $200 dollar rebate on their electric bill. Anyone who has been a Pioneer resident for at least a year, has at least a $30 average electric bill and is not delinquent on their bill or taxes…will get the rebate, officials say. People …

Chalk one up for the Democrats. The Ohio Supreme Court declares those GOP-drawn legislative maps we have been reporting on…invalid, on Wednesday, agreeing with voting rights advocates that the lines were unconstitutionally gerrymandered. In a 4-3 ruling, the court sent the maps back to the Ohio Redistricting Commission to take …

In Ney…a blaze destroys a small garage and heavily damages a shed, on Ohio 15. Area fire crews were joined by others from Farmer Township and Sherwood. It took over an hour to put the flames out, officials tell reporters. Apparently, the homeowner was burning cardboard in a burn pile …

Ohio abortion providers again sue…to block a state law requiring that fetal remains from surgical abortions be cremated or buried. Clinics, through their lawyers at ACLU of Ohio, asked the state bench for a second stay, arguing the new law imposes a funeral ritual on every patient, regardless of religious …