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Some road work going on in the area. Near Swanton, State Route 295, between Soul Road and Shaffer Road, will be closed for railroad work through Monday. Officials add County Road 24 is closed from County Road G and Highway 20A on Monday for the replacement of a bridge. Completion …

The Wauseon City Council approves placing a reduced pool levy on the November ballot. It passed an emergency resolution to move forward with the proposal to lower it from 2.6 mills to 2. The resolution also requested the auditor to certify the tax valuation of the city and the revenue …

Two people are found dead at a Cardinal Drive home in Bryan. Officials say it was a man and a woman, apparently an elderly married couple. An investigation by both state and local officials is on at this hour.

Williams County Commissioners authorize around $21 thousand dollars for preliminary testing for a pair of upcoming projects in the county. Roughly $63 hundred of it goes to Toledo-based Bowser-Morner engineering…for soil sampling related to the Kunkle sewer project. The county is under Environmental Protection Agency orders to address the lack …

The state of Ohio continues to defend its right to impose normal signature requirements on ballot issue campaigns, amid the global pandemic. Uncertainty over the question prompted a voting-rights campaign to suspend its ballot effort last week, but minimum wage and marijuana decriminalization issues remain. In a filing with the …

Ohio officials report another daily spike in coronavirus cases, the latest in a series of higher-than-average day-to-day increases. The 729 cases reported followed a spike of 609 cases Friday and 700 cases reported a day earlier. So far, Ohio has avoided an ongoing surge in cases since reopening its economy, …

One person dies and three others are injured in a house fire on Lumbard St in Napoleon. When crews arrived, the house was fully engulfed in flames. The three people hurt were taken to Henry County Hospital. The fourth victim died in the house The state fire marshal’s office and …

A 10-year-old child is hurt after getting hit by a car in Fulton County, on U.S. 20, near Fulton County Road 4 in Amboy Township. Investigators say Angela Williams, 61, of Toledo, was driving west on 20 when the child ran into the path of her car. The child was …

Williams County Fair Board members officially vote to continue the county fair…as normally as possible. Some changes, however, will need to be made in order to keep up to the state’s standards, amid COVID-19…leading off with a some modifications to grandstand seating capacity and social distancing requirements. State requirements currently …

A bill, expanding religious freedom in Ohio public schools and allowing students to engage in religious expression in their school assignments, is signed into law by Gov., DeWine. The House bill introduced by Republican Rep. Tim Ginter in March 2019 became law after being passed in the GOP-controlled chamber, in …