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A giant, now-defunct online charter school continues its yearslong fight against repaying Ohio tens of millions of dollars…as the state Supreme Court heard arguments over the process for appealing that refund order. A lawyer for the Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow, which was once one of the country’s largest virtual charter …

A 16-year-old boy and a 21-year-old woman are in the hospital after being hit by a truck in Angola, on North Wayne Street. Officers report a truck, driven by Ronald Brown, 79, of Pleasant Lake was traveling southbound…hitting two pedestrians in the roadway. The woman is in critical condition at …

A Swanton woman and a national human rights organization are asking the village’s police chief to resign…over his apathetic response to her complaints of racial intimidation by her neighbors. Anika Fields wants Police Chief Adam Berg to step down after her numerous complaints to his department have gone unanswered. A …

A Jasper County man is now in Steuben County jail…after the Indiana State Police pursues him in a nearly half-hour-long chase with officers. Mark Cates faces a long list of charges…ranging from non-compliance with officers…to drug possession. The case continues.

An outdated reporting system that led to the undercount of more than 4,200 COVID-19 deaths in Ohio will now be retired. The Ohio Department of Health will shelve the manual system it used to provide a real-time death toll from the pandemic over the last year…after a breakdown in the …

After recently finalizing a 20-year agreement to continue renting the train stop in Bryan, Amtrak is planning a $3.3 million dollar upgrade to the facility…which will include a new enclosed passenger station with restroom and boarding platform…making it ADA compliant. Last month, council approved a 20-year agreement with the railway …

Ohio will receive nearly 450,000 doses of the coronavirus vaccine this week…thanks to the approval of a third one. With that…the state is expanding eligible recipients to people 60 and over, pregnant women, day care workers, and police officers, among others. The Food and Drug Administration cleared a Johnson & …

Governor, DeWine announces the loosening of restrictions for sporting and entertainment venues when safety protocols are followed. Now…they will be able to reopen with 25 percent maximum indoor capacity and 30 percent maximum outdoor capacity…provided they follow established precautions, such as mandatory mask wearing for employees and customers. General admission, …

A federal agency awards Indiana housing authorities $35 million dollars for large-scale projects to modernize public housing around the state. The funding will go to 40 of Indiana’s public housing authorities for projects such as replacing roofs, upgrading heating systems and other improvements.

Williams County Commissioners approve an expedited annexation that adds about 160 acres into the Village of Pioneer, from adjoining Madison Township. The Pioneer North Industrial Park is east of Ohio 15, just south of Core Way Drive and north of Kexon Drive. The annexation consists of two parcels, owned by …