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Trine University gets a $1 million pledge towards the expansion of its engineering facilities. It comes from an engineering alumnus and his wife, who asked to remain anonymous. So far, the university has now raised $4.5 million toward the estimated $10 million total cost of the project. The planned 39,800-square-foot …

Soon-to-retire Montpelier Fire Chief, Dail Fritsch is honored by state officials for decades of service, during the Village Council meeting. State Rep. Jim Hoops and State Sen. Rob McColley were in attendance…with an official resolution signed by the speaker of the house. His eventual retirement will round out a career …

A Montpelier man is badly hurt in a crash north of Montpelier, along Ohio 20 and Ohio 576 in Bridgewater Township. Nicholas Fee was driving north on 576 while a semi, driven by Emery Scharbarth was going east on 20. Officials say Fee failed to stop for the stop sign …

Thomas Smith, of Toledo, accused of stabbing and killing a Montpelier woman, is indicted on for murder and more. Investigators say Smith attacked Danialle Swan…stabbing her several times in the chest and abdomen. This all happened at a Toledo gas station. We have now learned Smith had been held on …

The Ohio Attorney General certifies four separate ballot issues, aimed at updating the state’s voting laws, even as a lawsuit over dividing that update four ways continues. The issues were previously certified as a single issue by Attorney General, David Yost. Then, last week, the state Ballot Board severed the …

A 14 year old boy is dead and two other teenagers are hurt after a crash on County Road 59, near Butler in DeKalb County. Investigators say the vehicle was northbound on 59 when it started to run off the road. The driver over corrects and loses control, running off …

Dustin Vogelsong, the Sherwood area man, accused of killing his grandfather and injuring two other people on Sunday, waives his right to a preliminary hearing in Defiance Municipal Court. He faces aggravated murder charges and is bound over to a county grand jury. He’s held at CCNO. Investigators say Vogelsong …

A two car crash in DeKalb County on State Road 3 at County Road 68. Officials say responders found that one car, driven by Courtney Nelson of Columbia City, crossed 3…without yielding to a second vehicle, with Ashely Dodson of Kendallville behind the wheel. Both cars leave the roadway in …

Backers of an effort, aimed at updating Ohio’s voting laws, appeal to the state Supreme Court, claiming the state ballot board misinterpreted the state’s single subject rule when it severed their proposal into four separate ballot issues. Ohioans for Secure and Fair Elections officials say at issue at the high …

Indiana’s governor is endorsing a proposal that could force the state’s attorney general from office, if his law license is suspended over allegations that he drunkenly groped a state legislator and three other women. Gov. Holcomb says he’ll supports a bill endorsed by the Indiana House that would prohibit anyone …