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Heads up, drivers. The Ohio State Highway Patrol is urging you to be safe this Labor Day weekend. Troopers will focus enforcement efforts on drunk drivers. Motorists can do their part in keeping the roadways safe by following all traffic laws, never driving impaired and always designating a sober driver. …

Responding to ongoing complaints and declaring it a public nuisance, the city of Bryan has at least temporarily shut down the Colonial Manor Motel. Officers served a temporary restraining order on motel management. So, the motel E. High St., is closed for now. Officials say the city has had more …

A Defiance man, accused of sex crimes against children in both Defiance and Williams counties, pleads guilty in a Williams County courtroom. William Shock pled guilty to a third-degree felony charge of gross sexual imposition. Online court records show Shock was accused of touching an 8-year-old child during the summer …

A Toledo man is arraigned in a Henry County courtroom for attempted murder. Raymond Cervantes, pled not guilty to that and a list of other charges. A pretrial hearing is now set for Sept. 21st. Prosecutors say Cervantes beat his girlfriend with a piece of wood and also attempted to …

Three people are arrested after a high speed chase with LaGrange County deputies. Katie Shephard…Kyle Miller…and Joshua Webb…all from Michigan, face charges. Officers tried to pull over their car. Instead, the suspects crash into a patrol vehicle head on before leading police on a pursuit in the northwest portion of …

Unemployment rates are going down…both across the state and in northwest Ohio. The statewide unemployment rate was 8.9% in July 2020, down from 11% in June. In Williams County, the jobless rate improved from 9% in June to 7.4% in July. The rate was 3.6% in July 2019. Same thing …

The FBI is assisting the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office with excavation on the former property of James Worley, in rural Delta. An FBI spokesperson at the Cleveland office confirms the agency is assisting at the County Road 6 location. Officials won’t confirm they were looking for a body. Worley is …

The GOP speaker of the Ohio House calls for his predecessor, a fellow Republican under federal indictment in a $60 million bribery scheme, to resign his seat and leave the General Assembly. Newly elected Speaker, Bob Cupp called Rep. Larry Householder’s return to the Statehouse, following his July 21 arrest, …

More than 115,000 inactive voter registrations are at risk of being removed from Ohio’s rolls after the November election, the state’s election chief says. The final, revised figure released by the office of Secretary of State Frank LaRose represents the number of voter registrations that will be purged if they …

Bryan Police arrest the same person…twice on the same street…and charge him with the same offense…DUI. Officers catch up to Dominic Temple during a traffic stop on Perry Street at Walnut. They let Temple go, with charges…in the custody of a sober friend to get him home. Then, roughly two …