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Ohio officials recommend…local health departments shift their practice of COVID-19 contact tracing to a model that follows clusters of cases and not individual diagnoses. Schools can also discontinue universal contract tracing but should still plan to help health departments trace clusters of a coronavirus outbreak. That’s according to a memo …

Railroad tracks in DeKalb County were shut down for an hour midday Wednesday after a semi, hauling a dump truck became stuck…on C.R. 60 near C.R. 55, just over a mile west of St. Joe. Officials say…the trailer dropped off the south side of the road and then bottomed out …

A Defiance man is arrested…for an eighth drunk driving charge. Gilberto Martinez, 62, was pulled over for speeding and not using a turn signal on Ohio 111 near Dotterer Street. Soon after…the cops can tell he’s drunk…and bring him in after he fails a sobriety test. The case continues.

The Williams County Sheriff’s Office is looking for John Kreischer this week…even though we reported…the authorities found him last week. Deputies released Kreischer’s photo Wednesday, asking the public for tips on his whereabouts. He was arrested Jan. 19 and taken to the Corrections Center of Northwest Ohio based on a …

Ohio’s election chief has COVID-19. Secretary of State, Frank LaRose began experiencing minor symptoms Sunday evening, officials say. That would have been about 24 hours after he cast a vote on new state legislative maps, as a member of the Ohio Redistricting Commission. He was joined by Republican Gov. DeWine …

Heidi Grant…the Antwerp woman, charged with the murder of her husband…made another appearance in Paulding County Municipal Court. She now has a court date, set for Feb. 10th. Grant is charged with the killing last week of her husband, Christopher Franklin, 47, Antwerp. He had been the subject of a …

A man dies in a Royalton Township crash on US 20. This was over the weekend. Officials tell reporters…Paul Fenton, 61, of Jasper, Michigan, was a passenger in one of the vehicles. David Foster, 32, of Morenci was heading west on 20. Kenneth Montie, 66, of Toledo, was southbound on …

A man is dead after a snowmobile accident in rural Steuben County on Sunday. Deputies were called to help locate Adam Fifield, 34, of Angola. Fifield had been missing for almost 90 minutes…after leaving a home in Hudson, on the snowmobile. Crews were unable to find Fifield after conducting a …

Bryan crews are dispatched to a boiler fire at a Beech Street address over the weekend. The Ohio Gas Company is in on the call. When the crew gets there…they see smoke. They get in the place and find the boiler was catching the floorboards beneath it…on fire. It’s quickly …

Williams County deputies say…Cody Hartman, 24, of Bryan, was driving east on Ohio 2…when his car goes off the left side of the roadway, east of County Road 20. The car slides down the embankment, hitting a tree. The crash finally ends…in the Tiffin River. Hartman is okay…officials say he …