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The Fulton County Health Department reports six new COVID deaths early this week. There were three in the 70-79 age range…one person in their 50s…one in their 60s…and one in the 80 or older age range. The county saw a sharp increase in new COVID cases early this week, with …

Health officials say…no reported COVID omicron variant cases have been detected in the seven county region of northwest Ohio. So far…Williams, Defiance, Henry, Fulton, Putnam, Paulding and Van Wert, counties have avoided it. With that said…officials add…the overall number of COVID cases in Williams County remains high. 127 deaths have …

A 70-year-old woman dies in a crash that ended with the vehicle careening into a garage in Dekalb County. Officials tell reporters Marsha Edgar of Auburn was driving south in the 3800 block of CR 35 Tuesday around 3 pm when, for some reason, she went off the road. Her …

Although it may be several years down the road, planning for significant changes to U.S. 24 in Defiance County is well underway. County engineers shared the latest on plans to build a new overpass on U.S. 24 at Independence Road during this week’s county commissioners’ meeting. Sounds good…but it is …

An annual pay raise has kicked-in for Ohio’s minimum-wage workers, who will now earn $9.30 per hour, about $2 more than the federal minimum wage. The raise is the largest since 2006, when a ballot initiative indexed the minimum wage to inflation. Ohio is among nine states where a 2022 …

A mother and her two children are hurt after a semi slams into a car in northern DeKalb County…about two miles south of the Dekalb / Steuben county line. Officials tell reporters…the semi was northbound when the driver failed to see a car parked on the east shoulder. No word …

Williams County Commissioners approve a $54 million dollar budget for 2022, including about $17 million in General Fund expenses. The overall budget is about a 5% increase from 2021. It represents about a 6.1% increase from last year. Per the Ohio Revised Code, the General Fund is the single largest …

The director of Defiance County’s Developmental Disabilities Board, already facing misdemeanor theft charges in Defiance, has been charged in Henry County with a felony as well. Tim Bower, of Delta, made an initial appearance in Napoleon Municipal Court on a charge of theft, a fifth-degree felony. The proceedings are only …

Is Ohio’s new congressional map unconstitutionally gerrymandered to favor Republicans who controlled the mapmaking process? That’s the question being argued today before the Ohio Supreme Court. At issue is the new map, showing boundaries for 15 U.S. House districts Ohio was allotted by the 2020 census, down from the current …

New statistics released today show fewer motorists were killed on Ohio’s roadways this Christmas holiday, as compared to the three previous years. During the four-day reporting period, from Thursday, December 23, at 12 a.m. until Sunday, December 26, at 11:59 p.m., seven people were killed in seven fatal crashes. Three …