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An Indiana judge cancels a trial, challenging limits on the state’s religious objections law…finding conservative groups failed to prove they were harmed by changes the Republican-dominated Legislature approved, shortly after then-Gov. Mike Pence signed it. In calling off the trial, scheduled for February, Hamilton County Judge, Michael Casati agreed with …

Indiana’s governor is facing calls from Democrats to explain his role in Amazon being cleared of responsibility for a warehouse worker’s death, despite initial findings of four major safety violations. Gov. Holcomb denies any involvement in the state Department of Labor’s investigation of the September 2017 death at Amazon’s Plainfield …

Robert Barker, a Defiance man, is arrested. Defiance County deputies picked Barker up at his Breckler Road address. He is accused of inappropriate contact with minors over several years. Barker faces sexual battery, and gross sexual imposition charges. Prosecutors say this all happened between 2016 through 2018. The victims were …

An area employer closes its doors, soon. Officials say Bryan Metals on South Main Street is set to shut down sometime in the near future. The plant employs 22 workers and specializes in products sold in the automotive and electronic components markets. The jobs will not be reassigned elsewhere. Workers …

The remains of a World War II pilot from Ohio are identified, 75 years after his plane was shot down over Germany. The remains of Army Air Forces 1st Lt. Steve Nagy will be buried in his hometown of Lorain at a date yet to be determined. He was 23 …

The Ohio Supreme Court rejects a lawsuit, attempting to block a proposed statewide vote that aims to overturn a financial rescue for Ohio’s two nuclear plants. The plants’ owner, FirstEnergy Solutions, had argued the financial rescue approved by state lawmakers in July can’t be overturned by voters because it amounts …

Jeffery Smith, the area man who stole a CSX vehicle that he left on a Defiance railroad crossing, where it was struck by a train, is sentenced to prison in Defiance County. Smith was given a 54-month prison term on charges of intimidation, vandalism and interference with the operation of …

Work to clean up the former SK Hand Tool property in Richland Township will soon rest with the EPA. County officials agreed to submit an application for EPA grant funds to help clean up the site on Hickory St., just outside Defiance. The application deadline is Dec. 4. The thought …

The English-Bonter-Mitchell Foundation pledges a half million dollars to support the planned expansion at Trine University’s Allen School of Engineering and Computing. The $10 million expansion, announced last year, will provide added space and resources for Trine’s growing engineering and computer science and information technology programs. The new area is …

FirstEnergy Solutions, the Ohio-based coal and nuclear power generating agency, says it will change its name once it restructures amid filing bankruptcy. The new name? Energy Harbor. The company was founded in 1997 as a subsidiary of FirstEnergy Corp. and runs nuclear power and coal plants in Ohio and Pennsylvania, …