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Sheriffs around Ohio issued slightly fewer concealed carry licenses in 2021 compared to 2020, although numbers were up in Williams County. Ohio Attorney General, Dave Yost released his department’s annual concealed carry licensing report, which shows that sheriffs issued 94,298 new licenses in 2021, a slight dip from the 98,892 …

The Williams County Board of Elections has selected Grant Sims as the new elections director. Sims, a Democrat, was unanimously voted into the position after a short executive session during the board’s monthly meeting Tuesday afternoon. He will start on March 18. He replaces Evan Raub, who stepped down in …

An standoff near the Williams-Fulton county line ends with an arrest on Tuesday. Deputies are dispatched to the US 20 location…it’s a domestic call. The cops get to the scene…to find…James Mireles…locked inside the home. He’s not coming out. After several hours…a dog bites a deputy. Mireles comes out of …

Supply chain issues are forcing an area manufacturer to lay off some of their workforce. Powers and Sons…a Williams County company that makes car parts for Ford and others…says it will be temporarily trimming close to a third of its workforce. Roughly 90 are affected in the move. The hope …

A Bryan home is badly damaged in a Sunday evening fire on E. Mulberry St. When the fire team rolls up on the scene…they see flames and smoke coming from inside the place. Montpelier and Edgerton crews were called in to help out. The one person living in the home…was …

Four Republicans file petitions to run in Ohio’s newly redistricted 9th Congressional District, which now includes Williams County. They four are State Sen. Theresa Gavarone…State Rep. Craig Riedel… Air Force veteran, J.R. Majewski…and Beth Deck. A fifth Republican, Madison Gilbert, who had indicated she would run in the 9th District, …

Ohio’s senators say they have lined up bipartisan support in both houses of Congress for new legislation that would restore the terminated pensions of more than 20,000 salaried retirees of Delphi, the bankrupted former auto parts supplier. The move followed a Supreme Court decision in January…declining to take up the …

Ohio Secretary of State, Frank LaRose orders county elections boards to work as if the latest district maps for state and federal elections would be approved. Republicans on the Ohio Redistricting Commission approved an adjusted map of congressional districts on Wednesday. Democrats voted against the map, which would deliver two-thirds …

Deaths in Williams County exceeded births in 2021. Officials say, 300 children were born in 2021 while 345 people died. Statewide, Ohio saw more deaths than births in 2020 for the first time in the 112 years the state has been tracking the information. Preliminary data from the Ohio Department …

An Ohio judge has blocked preemptive enforcement of a law…imposing additional requirements on consulting physicians at abortion clinics…requirements that abortion providers say threaten operations at two of the last clinics in the state. While the bill’s stated goal was to impose criminal penalties on doctors who fail to provide life-saving …