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The state Medical Board votes to reject petitions, seeking to add anxiety and autism spectrum disorders as qualifying conditions for physicians to recommend medical marijuana to patients. The vote comes after a committee last month recommended against approving the petitions. The panel says marijuana can provide temporary relief for anxiety …

A Hicksville man dies in a crash. Officials say Daniel Beatty, 57, was driving south on Casebere-Miller Road, when the vehicle went off the right side of the roadway onto an embankment. It then crossed the road…off the left side, hitting a tree and then a house. Beatty was transported …

Ryan Dangerfield pretrial hearing on murder and assault charges is postponed. Dangerfield is charged in connection with the death of Dylan Bible, at a Bryan motel,. He will now have a pretrial conference on Nov. 12 in Williams County. Dangerfield was indicted on two counts of murder and more.

A man, driving north on Allen St. is said to have had a medical issue while trying to turn left onto Trevitt St. in Bryan. The car hit a house, there. No one was inside the house at the time. The cause of the accident is under investigation. The driver …

A Williams County grand jury indicts Cody Shaffer of Auburn on one count of felonious assault. Prosecutors say in Aug., he caused serious physical harm to an individual. He was initially charged with misdemeanor domestic violence for striking a woman in the face and slamming her to the floor. The …

Officers want a Florida man after a bank is robbed in Paulding County. Investigators say the suspect entered State Bank & Trust Company on N. First St., in Oakwood. The suspect was dressed in dark pants and a light-colored hooded jacket with a black stripe. He was also wearing a …

A man dies in a fiery Steuben County crash. Officials tell reporters Adam Stephens of Angola collided with a tree in his SUV. Stephens was pronounced dead at the scene…a combination of blunt force trauma and third degree burns.

Power is restored on the south side of Kendallville. Indiana Michigan Power says 2,300 customers were affected, including the high school. The lights were out for a couple of hours.

A crash on Interstate 69 slows traffic to a halt just south of Auburn. The accident in the southbound lanes near the 326 mile marker is under investigation at this hour.

A rural Swanton man is sentenced in a Fulton County courtroom. David Williams previously pled guilty to possession of cocaine in a March incident. Judge, Jeffrey Robinson sentenced Williams to 3 years of community control and ordered him to pay court costs, maintain employment and more. Failure to comply could …