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Some Ohio casinos and racinos could be left with losing tickets…if the state Senate’s sports betting legislation…giving professional teams priority for obtaining a brick-and mortar sports book licenses…is ultimately enacted. We reported the bill was passed by the Senate and sent to the House for consideration. It assigns the 30 …

An Angola man is hurt after crashing his motorcycle in Steuben County. Officials say 56-year-old Alan Jones was riding east on CR 500 S…when the bike begins to swerve back and forth…leaving the north side of the roadway…smashing into an embankment. A witness tells officers he believes Jones may have …

Williams County Commissioners approve a bond purchase agreement…saving an estimated $895,000 dollars…from three separate loans.

Montpelier Police arrests a man…after he assaults an employee at a Holiday City business. Officers are called to Hutch’s Towing & Recovery, on County Road M.50…for a reported break-in. Officials tell reporters the suspect was spotted by an employee. They say that’s when the burglar, Kyle Tyler attacks the worker. …

Ohio is no longer in a state of emergency…COVID-19. So far, nearly 5.5 million people in the state have gotten at least the first dose of the vaccine…roughly 47% of the population. In Williams County, the number is 13,291, or 36 %. According to state data, the county estimated 38 …

Members of the Ohio House expel Larry Householder, the federally indicted Republican ex-speaker…in a bipartisan vote that invoked their powers to remove a member for the first time in 150 years. The GOP-controlled House voted 75-21 to remove Householder, of Perry County, approving a resolution that stated he was not …

Revised financial estimates mean an extra $3.3 billion dollars for lawmakers, crafting the upcoming state budget. With the news, Gov., DeWine urges lawmakers to be conservative when factoring in the windfall, calling it one-time money, attributable to federal pandemic aid. The updated forecasts call for an additional $1.7 billion dollars …

The Ohio Senate approves legislation to legalize sports betting in Ohio…along with a bill to allow college athletes for the first time…to earn money based on the use of their names, images and likenesses. Both bills now go to the House for consideration. The sports betting bill would allow 53 …

The trial of Raymond Cervantes…the Toledo man, accused of attempted murder and more…begins in a Henry County court room. A grand jury deduced…on the night of Aug. 17 Cervantes hit his wife with a piece of wood. They say he also tried to strangle her…all this, in Washington Township. We …

The VFW in Paulding is in some trouble…after a county judge cites the place for illegal bingo and games of chance. Grover Hill VFW Post 2873, through its commander John Moon, pled guilty. There’s a pretty long list of tasks the place has to satisfy, in the eyes of the …