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Activity across the Ohio housing marketplace saw a big gain in April, as sales increased 18% compared to a year ago, that’s according to Ohio REALTORS. Home unit sales in April 2021 reached 12,986. The average sales price across Ohio in March was $236,800, a 17% increase from 2020.

One person dies in a house fire in Van Wert, on West Crawford Street. When crews get to the scene…heavy fire and smoke is coming from the first story of the house. On their first search of the home, they find the victim…dead…in the living room. It takes around an …

A man drives through a soybean field in Hicksville…hitting a cement culvert…as he tried to go back onto the road. Officials tell reporters Allan Schliesser is westbound on Buckskin Road…when he goes off the right side of the roadway. He goes through the field, to re-enter the street on Rosedale …

Two people are hurt after a wreck on the east side of Edgerton. Witnesses tell officers…a northbound vehicle on County Road 4.50…ran into one…going eastbound on U.S. 6, at the St. Joseph River bridge. The case continues.

A Toledo woman is sentenced to 15 years to life in prison. Yisenya Flores pled guilty earlier this month to murder and child endangerment in the September 2019 death of 5-year-old Anjuan Hare. Prosecutors say Flores told emergency responders the child had jumped from a bed because he wanted to …

The Bryan City Band will present their first concert of the 2021 season on Wednesday, June 2. The event marks the beginning of the band’s 170th consecutive season…bringing musical entertainment to Bryan. Concerts begin at 7:30 p.m., every Wednesday in June…and the first three weeks of July. Due to ongoing …

An Cincinnati area woman wins the state’s first $1 million dollar Vax-a-Million vaccination incentive prize…while a Dayton-area teen gets the first full-ride college scholarship offered by the program. The winners were selected in a random drawing this week…and had their information confirmed before the formal announcement at the end of …

Both public entities and private employers would be prohibited from requiring vaccinations…and workers could not be fired as a result of refusing to get their shots…under GOP legislation pending in an Ohio House committee. The bill before the House Health Committee also strengthens the notices that schools must provide parents …

An energy company that gave the money…in an alleged $60 million bribery scheme in Ohio…and a man, accused of spending a large chunk of it…are now arguing in separate proceedings that their actions were legal. FirstEnergyCorp. argues that political donations are protected by the First Amendment…and a federal criminal complaint …

An Cincinnati area woman wins the state’s first $1 million dollar Vax-a-Million vaccination incentive prize…while a Dayton-area teen gets the first full-ride college scholarship offered by the program. The winners were selected in a random drawing this week…and had their information confirmed before the formal announcement at the end of …