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Williams County deputies respond to a tip…there’s a fugitive at 210 Walnut St., in Pulaski. Officials say…Jason Dennis, 37, of Bryan, was wanted for failure to appear in Bryan Municipal Court for a parole violation hearing. The cops get there…Dennis sees them…he takes off running. A police dog tracks Dennis …

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission proposes a large fine against the builder of a pipeline that runs through a portion of Fulton County. The commission ordered Energy Transfer Partners…and its subsidiary, Rover Pipeline…to explain why it should not pay a $40 million dollar civil penalty for alleged violations of the …

The Fulton County Health Department reports six new COVID deaths early this week. There were three in the 70-79 age range…one person in their 50s…one in their 60s…and one in the 80 or older age range. The county saw a sharp increase in new COVID cases early this week, with …

Health officials say…no reported COVID omicron variant cases have been detected in the seven county region of northwest Ohio. So far…Williams, Defiance, Henry, Fulton, Putnam, Paulding and Van Wert, counties have avoided it. With that said…officials add…the overall number of COVID cases in Williams County remains high. 127 deaths have …

A 70-year-old woman dies in a crash that ended with the vehicle careening into a garage in Dekalb County. Officials tell reporters Marsha Edgar of Auburn was driving south in the 3800 block of CR 35 Tuesday around 3 pm when, for some reason, she went off the road. Her …

Although it may be several years down the road, planning for significant changes to U.S. 24 in Defiance County is well underway. County engineers shared the latest on plans to build a new overpass on U.S. 24 at Independence Road during this week’s county commissioners’ meeting. Sounds good…but it is …

An annual pay raise has kicked-in for Ohio’s minimum-wage workers, who will now earn $9.30 per hour, about $2 more than the federal minimum wage. The raise is the largest since 2006, when a ballot initiative indexed the minimum wage to inflation. Ohio is among nine states where a 2022 …

A mother and her two children are hurt after a semi slams into a car in northern DeKalb County…about two miles south of the Dekalb / Steuben county line. Officials tell reporters…the semi was northbound when the driver failed to see a car parked on the east shoulder. No word …

Williams County Commissioners approve a $54 million dollar budget for 2022, including about $17 million in General Fund expenses. The overall budget is about a 5% increase from 2021. It represents about a 6.1% increase from last year. Per the Ohio Revised Code, the General Fund is the single largest …

The director of Defiance County’s Developmental Disabilities Board, already facing misdemeanor theft charges in Defiance, has been charged in Henry County with a felony as well. Tim Bower, of Delta, made an initial appearance in Napoleon Municipal Court on a charge of theft, a fifth-degree felony. The proceedings are only …