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Clinton and Fulton townships will ask voters next Tuesday to approve new levies…one to create a cemetery maintenance fund…and the other to even out the residential cost of fire services. Clinton Township has placed a five-year, 0.15-mill levy on the May 4 ballot, to allow the trustees to create a …

Fulton County’s unemployment rate falls in March. The Ohio Department of Job and Family Services says it fell to 4.3%…from 5.5 in February. Last March, the jobless rate was 6.3% in the county. Among the state’s 88 counties, preliminary March 2021 unemployment rates ranged from a low of 2.4% in …

In Toledo…seven college students and another man are indicted…in the alcohol-related death of a 20-year-old…found unconscious after a fraternity party. The charges from the grand jury range from involuntary manslaughter to hazing. Stone Foltz, 20, died three days after he and other fraternity pledges at Bowling Green were each given …

A Napoleon man is sentenced to four to 5 1/2 years in prison on a robbery charge involving the theft of a firearm. Dillon Burdue was found to have violated community control terms on three previous convictions. A Henry County grand jury agreed that on Aug. 20 Burdue stole a …

Crews from Gerken Paving of Napoleon, this week are finishing up the first of three paving projects in Bryan. Streets on the mend include Townline Road and portions of Beech, Lynn, Walnut, Maple and Butler streets in the city center. The cost is estimated at about $479,000 and is part …

A single issue, and no candidates, is on the county’s May 4 primary ballot. What is it?…a five-year, 3.8-mill additional levy for North Central Local Schools. If approved, it will raise $420,000 annually. The goal is to avoid an operating deficit. Only voters in North Central Schools’ five precincts….Pioneer village…Bridgewater …

The pretrial hearing for Thomas Smith, the Toledo man accused of stabbing a Montpelier woman to death in February 2020…has been pushed back for the eighth time. Smith’s pretrial conference in Lucas County…is now rescheduled for June 1. In March 2020, Smith pled not guilty to murder and more. He …

A deadly crash in Swanton Township, near Toledo Express Airport. Officials tell reporters a pickup, driven by 51-year-old Robert Murphy of Toledo, was stopped westbound at a traffic light in the right lane on Airport Highway at Terminal Parkway. Then…an SUV, driven by 69-year-old Vickie Luchini of Swanton, approaches…westbound on …

A Fort Wayne man dies when his SUV runs into the back of a trash truck on C.R. 68, in DeKalb County. Officials tell reporters the truck was parked in front of a home…as its driver…was out dumping a trash bin. Nicholas Chambers rear-ended it…he is instantly killed. A passenger…Philip …

A Columbia City woman is killed…when her vehicle goes into the path of a dump truck, along S.R. 3, at Waits Road, in Kendallville. They say Shelby McClellan was driving east on Waits…with two young children…when she failed to yield the right of way to the dump truck traveling north, …