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The chief of the Ohio Department of Natural Resources issues approval of a Water Withdrawal and Consumptive Use Permit Application from AquaBounty Farms…for a proposed water well field near Pioneer. AquaBounty proposes a 479,000-square-foot facility in Pioneer to raise commercial genetically modified salmon, with an initial withdrawal from the local …

A Toledo doctor…who denied doing any harm to his patients after being convicted of overprescribing painkillers…is sentenced to five years in prison. A federal judge also ordered Dr. William Bauer to pay $460,000 in restitution. Bauer, 85, was convicted last summer on charges of distributing controlled substances at his office. …

A Defiance woman has won a $1 million dollar prize, the Ohio Lottery recently announced. Rachel Yonge of Defiance won the top prize on the Ohio Lottery Scratch-Off, Extreme Cash game. She chose the cash option of $1 million and will $720,000…after taxes. She bought her winning ticket at the …

A federal judge on Friday set a January 2023 trial date for the former Ohio Houser speaker facing a 2 1/2-year-old racketeering conspiracy charge in an alleged $60 million bribery scheme. Ex-GOP Speaker Larry Householder is accused of leading the scheme secretly funded by Akron-based FirstEnergy Corp. to win legislative …

Police are investigating a body that was found in DeKalb County near North County Line Road and State Road. The case continues.

Overseas absentee ballots could arrive up to 20 days after Ohio’s primary election and still be counted…under emergency legislation approved by the General Assembly, Thursday…amid debate over new state legislative maps. The measure headed to Gov., DeWine also requires those ballots…mostly for members of the military…to be ready, no later …

Gov., DeWine, facing a competitive 2022 reelection race, will skip this month’s Republican primary debate, event organizers say on Thursday. The nonpartisan Ohio Debate Commission tells the media…the governor did not give a reason for declining to participate in the March 29 debate, adding that it hopes he will reconsider. …

Ohio villages, cities and other local governments would be prohibited from banning AirBNB-style short-term rental units in their communities…this…under proposed GOP legislation meant to create state-wide uniformity on the issue. Short-term rental options such as AirBNB, bed and breakfasts, vacation stay company VRBO and others help boost local economies…via taxes …

Overseas absentee ballots could arrive up to 20 days after Ohio’s primary election…and still be counted…under emergency legislation working its way through General Assembly…as chaos over new state legislative maps threatens spring elections. County election officials have raised serious questions about their ability to carry out a successful primary election …

In DeKalb County…a 52-year-old man crashes a Postal Service truck, early Tuesday. Official say…Hwa Kim of Fort Wayne was driving a west on C.R. 40…when the truck went off the side of the road…down into a ditch…hitting a utility pole, totaling the truck. Investigators did not specify what caused the …