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Joshua Meyer of Napoleon, pleads guilty to two counts of identity fraud and more in a Defiance courtroom. Sentencing is scheduled for Oct. 19th. The DA has recommended five years behind bars. Meyer already is serving a 24-month prison term on Fulton County charges in another case. He is being …

People struggling to pay rent, along with small businesses and nonprofits hurt by COVID-19 and the weak economy…could have details by next week on an aid package to help them. Gov. DeWine acknowledged that people and businesses may need more help than Ohio can provide from its share of federal …

The Ohio Third District Court of Appeals upholds the conviction of former Napoleon High School teacher and coach, Randy Burke…found guilty last year of illegally touching girls on his track team. He was sentenced to five years of community control and 180 days incarceration at the Corrections Center of Northwest …

A Hillsdale, Michigan man is arrested in a cornfield after a high-speed pursuit ends with his car on fire and a child injured at the scene. The pursuit starts on High Street, near Lebanon, in Bryan. A police officer tried to pull over Robert Foster, for no visible registration. He …

The Edgerton Village Council officially votes on where they want COVID-19 relief money to go. The village received around $75,000 from the CARES Act…and it had around $66,000 left to spend. They vote to spend the money on a police cruiser, automatic doors, telecommunications upgrades…and they will be donating some …

Ohio’s secretary of state adjusts his one-box-per-county restriction…to say counties may collect absentee ballots both at their buildings and at locations outside, in an update to an order that has landed Frank LaRose in both state and federal court. The new directive requires Ohio’s 88 county boards of elections to …

Today is the deadline for Ohioans to register to vote in the Nov. 3 general election. Once registered, voters have the option to vote early in person, to request a mail-in absentee ballot or to wait and vote at their precinct on Election Day. The deadline to request an absentee …

If Secretary of State, Frank LaRose wants to expand the number of ballot drop boxes beyond one per Ohio county, he can. But a state appellate court won’t force him to do so. That was the essence of a ruling that left both sides in a legal fight over LaRose’s …

An effort by Ohio’s attorney general, to block an energy company and its affiliated entities from donating to lawmakers, is an infringement of First Amendment rights, a Franklin County judge rules. The decision blocks Attorney General, Dave Yost’s attempt to stop campaign contributions to Ohio lawmakers from First Energy…while the …

The unemployment rate in Fulton County was down in August, to 6.7%…from 7.2% in July. Last August, the jobless rate in the county was 3.9%. The comparable unemployment rate for the state was 8.8%. One highlight, locally…Van Wert County checks in at a low 5.9. The number of workers unemployed …