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Ohio’s legislative leaders are negotiating a potentially fast-moving constitutional amendment…that would allow September deadlines for making state political maps to be extended…because of pandemic-related delays in the 2020 Census.

The man hospitalized after a shootout with Fort Wayne police last week is released from medical care and transferred to Allen County Jail. Justin Weikel is currently detained on an outstanding Noble County arrest warrant, charges which are unrelated to the police action shooting incident. On Wednesday night, he was …

Activity across the Ohio housing marketplace rose in March, as sales increased 3.1% from the level reached during the same month a year ago…that’s according to the group, Ohio REALTORS. Around the state, 13 of the 16 markets tracked experienced an increase in average price for the month compared to …

Elections will be held in August and November to fill an upcoming congressional vacancy in Ohio. Gov. DeWine says a partisan primary in the special election to fill the 15th Congressional District seat…now held by Rep. Steve Stivers…will be held Aug. 3, with the general election on Nov. 2. Stivers, …

Clarence Thigpen…the Michigan man…accused of stabbing Ney-area resident…the shot by a deputy…pleads guilty to two counts of felonious assault in a Defiance County courtroom. Prosecutors say Thigpen attacked someone on May 17th , at a Ney-Williams Center Road location, with a hunting knife. The victim was hospitalized for a time…he …

Vaccine rates have slowed locally so the Williams County Health Department is trying a new tactic to increase those numbers. Officials have approached several of the larger workplaces in the county to set up vaccine clinics, there. So far, over 98 hundred county residents, over the age of 18 have …

A man on an ATV dies from his injuries after it rolled over on him while on his property on Christy Road in Defiance, on Saturday. Deputies responded to a hospital call, informing them Michael Lucas, 58, had been involved in the accident behind the property on Christy Road. Lucas …

A $75 billion dollar state budget…containing a 2% personal income tax cut and an overhaul of the state’s system for funding schools clears the Ohio House. The massive blueprint lays out spending for state programs for the two years, beginning July 1. It must next clear the Ohio Senate, where …

A GOP-backed bill, introduced this week, would change the name of an Ohio state park to honor former President, Donald Trump. The bill, primarily sponsored by freshman state Rep. Mike Loychik, to rename Mosquito Lake State Park to Donald J. Trump State Park…is the latest attempt by Ohio Republicans to …

State or local governments in Indiana will be prohibited from issuing or requiring COVID-19 vaccine passports, under a bill approved by state lawmakers. The Republican-dominated House and Senate voted by wide margins to approve a wide-ranging health care and insurance bill that included the vaccine passport ban. The ones in …