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2020 marks the third straight year there were no fatal crashes in the city of Bryan. The last deadly wreck in town?…back in 2017. In their report…police investigated 217 total traffic accidents in 2020, including 18 recorded as injury accidents. That’s down from 275 in 2019. Bryan officers issued 504 …

A bill…restricting a governors’ abilities to issue public health orders during a pandemic is unconstitutional and a violation of the separation of powers. That’s according to Gov. DeWine, who plans to veto the latest legislation headed for his desk while holding out hope for a compromise. The GOP-controlled House approved …

Ohio Lt. Gov. Jon Husted gets his COVID-19 vaccine at his old junior high school in Montpelier Thursday. He received the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, live on camera…during his and Gov. DeWine’s semiweekly press conference. Husted wasn’t alone, either, getting his shot after Montpelier Mayor, Steve Yagelski…and Husted’s former babysitter, …

Ohio congressman, Bob Latta has received the National Health Leadership Award by the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists. The award recognizes an individual on the federal government level…who supports the role that those certified registered nurse perform.

Two people are hurt when a car leaves Interstate 69 and hits the cable barrier in the median in DeKalb County…along the southbound lanes, near the 327 mile marker, south of Auburn. Officials tell reporters Meriam Kent, 43, of Indianapolis thought she saw an object in the roadway. Kent swerved. …

A review of whether Ohio’s medical board properly closed old cases of alleged sexual assault…or impropriety by medical professionals…has resulted in recommendations to refer 11 cases to law enforcement and reopen 91 more for further investigation. The subjects of those cases remain secret, at least for now…because the State Medical …

COVID-19 cases remain high in Williams County, with 19 new patients in the past seven days. Williams County remains at Level 2 on the Ohio Public Health Advisory System. The health department will give the second dose of the Moderna vaccine to complete the two-dose regimen for about 600 county …

A bomb threat is reported at a Grabill bank. Responders are called to the First Merchants branch on Main St. They go over the place. No danger. In the end…maintenance workers came upon a bag in a storage room in the bank that had pipes in it…but that’s all they …

Republican lawmakers’ latest in a yearlong attempt to rein in Gov., DeWine’s authority…to issue public health orders during the pandemic…passes in the House. It faces a likely veto by the governor. The proposal that would allow lawmakers to rescind public health orders issued by the governor…or the Ohio Department of …

An Evansport man is sentenced to possible life imprisonment in a Defiance County courtroom for seven sexual abuse charges involving two young girls. James Sheets gets 15 years to life by Judge Joseph Schmenk. Sheets is now a classified as a tier 3 sexual offender. Sheets will be eligible for …