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The Ohio Supreme Court will not hear an appeal filed by a former death row inmate…seeking to overturn his conviction and sentence for threatening a former assistant prosecutor. Kenneth Richey, 58, posted videos on Facebook in which he threatened the prosecutor and his family, the courts determined. The videos did …

Now, now….Bryan Police Chief Gary Mohre is set to resign…citing major discord within the police department, especially between him and Chief, Chris Chapa. He tells the city council all about it. They tell him…he can’t quit…prompting one on the panel to tell Mohre to put aside the kid’s stuff…and improve …

Authorities in Steuben County are investigating multiple complaints of theft from this last weekend. The Sheriff’s Office reports they have several cases of theft in the area of Lake George and Long Beach Lake, in rural Jamestown Township. Officers have investigated break-ins…into vehicles…as well as car thefts. Deputies want to …

The first meeting to redraw Ohio’s congressional and legislative districts is set for Friday. A commission will convene…to begin the new redistricting process, before the mid-September deadline to complete the new maps. The data Ohio is receiving, around Aug. 16th…will include counts of population by race, Hispanic origin, voting age …

A big rig dumps its cargo northwest of Defiance on Ohio 15. Officials tell reporters Martin Mondry, 44, of Twinsburg, is eastbound on 15 when he misses a curve at the Ohio 18 split in Noble Township. The semi goes off the right side of the roadway…rolls over and comes …

A police pursuit in Williams County. Deputes respond to a call at a County Road M location…west of County Road 2L…all this, north of Edon. At some point…the chase ends. Officials say Corey Jones, 31, of Butler, is picked up and brought in to CCNO…charged with felony failure to comply. …

A man dies in a solo crash in DeKalb County, on State Road 8…at the intersection of County Road 75, near the Indiana-Ohio Line. This happened on Sunday morning, officials say. Edward Yoder, 80, of Saint Joe, was heading west…when his pickup goes off the road. The vehicle ends up …

A long-running investigation into the Ohio branch of the violent El Salvador-based MS-13 gang, including the solving of eight homicides, nears conclusion…with the sentencing of the last defendant in custody. The prosecution of 23 members of the Columbus “clique” of MS-13 was the first federal case against the gang in …

A new effort to acquire properties in the river flood plain is underway in Defiance City Hall. City council approves a related ordinance…kicking off another potential round of property purchases…one of four legislative items that received approval. The ordinance concerns 116 and 118 Seneca St., where a residential duplex near …

Former death row inmates in Ohio are being denied the opportunity for parole, despite legal precedent…requiring they receive meaningful consideration for release. That’s what two organizations allege in a new lawsuit. At issue in the suit?…are requests for parole by ex-death row prisoners sentenced before 1978, when the state’s then-death …