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Ohio Senator, Sherrod Brown, announces the Office of National Drug Control Policy has awarded a $125,000 dollar grant to the program, Educating Communities on Healthy Opportunities…to implement strategies, to address the local drug crisis and prevent substance misuse in youth…all for Williams County.

A lawsuit, filed Thursday, challenges Ohio’s newly drawn state legislative districts…as giving an extreme and unfair advantage to the Republican Party, which controls the state’s new redistricting commission. The American Civil Liberties Union, its Ohio arm and a law firm filed the litigation on behalf of the League of Women …

A solo crash injures a Williams County teen. Officials say Kelly Schaffter, of Montpelier, is flown Parkview, in Fort Wayne…in serious condition. Schaffter was on County Road M, just west of County Road 10, when her vehicle went out of control and into a cornfield, overturning several times. Officials are …

The driver of an overturned tractor trailer, Luis Reyes, of Anderson, Ind., will be okay, following a crash on the Krouse Road overpass, over the 24, just west of Defiance. He was taken to an area hospital for observation….then, soon released, after that. Officials tell reporters his big rig hit …

August heat has accelerated corn and soybean harvests in Fulton County, with both faring well for the season. Corn for grain is being harvested a couple weeks early, and some early soybeans are being brought in…despite the normal harvest period that begins up to a month away. Officials are pretty …

The One Step at a Time 5K Run/Walk celebrates its 10th anniversary, when the annual event gets underway Saturday, at Camp Lakota in Defiance. It’s held in memory of Scott Hammersmith, remembering those lost to suicide.

A Butler woman is hurt after she hit a trailer attached to a semi…stopped on County Road 40. Officials tell reporters…Peggy Puckett, 72, was westbound…where the big rig was stopped…with its hazard lights on. The driver of the semi was sitting in a forklift at the time. Puckett drove into …

Ohio Congressman, Bob Latta becomes the second member of Congress from Ohio to test positive this week for COVID-19, despite being vaccinated against the virus. The Republican lawmaker from the 5th Congressional District announced Tuesday he contracted the virus after he was exposed to someone who also tested positive. Latta’s …

Republican state Sen., Matt Dolan formally enters the race for Ohio’s open U.S. Senate seat… adding a centrist voice, more akin to exiting Rob Portman’s than to the crowded, Trump-aligned field of GOP hopefuls. In a telephone interview, Dolan said Portman’s work, building a bipartisan coalition to pass a $1 …

A Paulding County Commissioner died Monday morning of an apparent suicide. Responders are dispatched to a Cecil location…on the report of a dead body. There, deputies discovered the body of Clint Vance, 30, with an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. Vance was found in an outbuilding at his farm. He won …