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Two nurses in Toledo have been suspended for failing to properly care for an inmate who died after being found unresponsive in his cell. An internal affairs report released Tuesday by the Lucas County Sheriff’s Office upheld internal charges of incompetency or inefficiency against the nurses. Both were suspended without …

A man who got away from police two weeks ago in a Bryan car chase is behind bars now. Eddie Ramirez escaped from police on the 31st. Officers were trying to get him on a warrant. Then…a break in the case. Word is, Ramirez was hiding out at a motel …

An upstart electric vehicle maker says it now has more than 100,000 orders for its new pickup truck. Lordstown Motors plans to begin production of the Endurance All-Electric Pickup Truck in September…at a former General Motors assembly plant near Youngstown. The company took over the plant after GM in 2019 …

A more contagious variant of the coronavirus…first identified in the United Kingdom late last year…has been found in Indiana, state health officials announced on Monday. The Indiana State Department of Health said the variant was identified in the state through testing by the state agency’s laboratory and the Centers for …

Williams County has lost six more people to COVID-19. Half of the deaths, three women, ages 98, 90 and 85, were in long-term care facilities. The other three were two men, ages 81 and 70 and one woman, who was 70. As of Friday, there have been a total of …

There is a local connection to last week’s insurgency in Washington, D.C. Nicholas Ochs, now in federal custody in connection to the rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol, last week…appears to have attended Huntington North High School. Ochs is the founder of the “Proud Boys” Hawaii chapter. He was one …

The body of a second worker, killed in that power plant collapse in southern Ohio has been located. A spokesperson for Detroit-based demolition contractor, Adamo Group says the family and other loved ones of 47-year-old Jamie Fitzgerald have been notified. The collapse came as the coal-fired generation plant, some 75 …

An appointee to the Ohio Arts Council resigns after making a vulgar comment on social media about Vice President-elect Kamala Harris…that also supported President, Trump’s false claims that he won the election. Gov., DeWine accepts Susan Allan Block’s resignation a day after his office issued a statement…saying her comments were …

Indiana Conservation Officers rescue three fishermen, who fall through the ice on Big Turkey Lake. Officials say Brad Levitz, 61, of LaGrange and his son, Bradley Levitz, 40, of Hudson, were trying to walk on the ice to go fishing when the whole thing happened. Two nearby fisherman sees this…and …

A COVID-19 pop-up testing site will be available, on Saturday, in the Junior Fair Building at the Fulton County Fairgrounds. Officials say it’s a PCR test. Results are expected within four days but could take longer. After testing, participants with COVID-19 symptoms should stay home until the test results are …