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At least one person dies after a head on collision, east of Orland, on State Road 120 near County Road 850 West in Steuben County, near Milgrove Township. The first units on the scene found four injured people in a passenger car, and an injured driver in a pick-up truck. …

In Hicksville…officers continue to search for the suspects who robbed the Shell Spee-D-Mart on W. High St. The bandits?…two Black males…one producing a handgun. One of the suspects wore a surgical mask. Officials tell reporters…they were able to get away on foot with money and lottery tickets. Defiance County deputies, …

Wednesday’s severe thunderstorm caused scattered damage in Defiance and the area, that’s according to the National Weather Service’s North Webster, Ind. office. The storm was most disruptive on the east side…where a couple of electric poles went down, including one with a transformer attached. That one crossed Ottawa Avenue and …

A Hudson man is held at the Steuben County Jail…after he fled from a traffic stop, officials tell reporters. A deputy tried to pull over Austin German…on a small motorcycle…on County Road 500 South, near County Road 225 West. The chase ended when German left the road into a field. …

The Williams County Sheriff’s Office and the Defiance Post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol are working in conjunction to reduce the number of fatal and serious injury crashes in Williams County. Sheriff’s deputies and Ohio state troopers will be highly visible during the entire month of August to address …

The village of Edgerton is hoping several grants will help them pay for updates to their water treatment plant. The village council on Tuesday approved the city to apply for two grants for a complete rehabilitation of the water treatment plant. Among those upgrades?…rehabilitating the ion exchange systems, installing a …

The Williams County Port Authority is one step closer to their goal of developing housing opportunities in the county after accepting a residential property last week. The authority is accepting property in Montpelier from the Williams County Land Reutilization Corporation. The board authorized Dawn Fitzcharles, clerk-treasurer, to execute legal documents …

Officers are investigating a fatal crash on Airport Highway, near Crissey Road in Springfield Township. They say a pickup truck was westbound on Airport, when the driver, Steven Robinson of Swanton, suffered a possible medical emergency. Robinson’s vehicle went off the right side of the roadway, smashing into an utility …

At last check, only 18 of 1,675 registered voters in Bryan precincts E & F…a little more than 1%…had cast their ballots at the polling location at the First Lutheran Church on North Cherry Street. That low turnout held true throughout election day in Williams County…as a lack of contested …

Three local school districts get state grants for security on Tuesday. Edgerton, Millcreek-West Unity and North Central were three of the 1,183 schools in 81 counties that received a total of $47 million dollars in grant funding…as part of the Ohio K-12 School Safety Grant Program. Gov., DeWine announced the …