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Ohio is still struggling to find supplies of lethal injection drugs amid fears it could be cut off from drugs needed for medicinal purposes…if their makers learn they’re also being used for executions. That has left the fate of executions in the near future in limbo. They have been on …

A local tragedy. Officials with the Pentagon confirm a soldier from Williams County died while serving in Afghanistan. Pfc. Brandon Kreischer, he was 20, of Stryker, died in a firefight in the southern part of the country. They say it happened on Monday. Kreischer went to Bryan High School and …

Williams County doesn’t get on the list of counties to receive a disaster declaration from the Department of Agriculture. Fulton County didn’t make it either. They were the only two counties in the northwest part of the state not to get on the declaration. Some local officials are surprised about …

A newly formed council of governments…the result of local efforts to band together the nine counties in three states that draw water from the Aquifer, held its first organizational meeting in Bryan. Formally called the Ohio, Michigan, Indiana Council of Government, the panel marks its first priorities as identifying the …

Hey shoppers!…Seven hundred miles worth of potential treasure awaits this weekend. It’s the annual U.S. 127 Sale. It runs this Friday through Sunday. The yearly tradition now snakes its way through six states…Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama…from Addison, Michigan, in the north to Gadsden, Alabama, in the south. …

Back to school time means hitting the books for students, but with the help of a looming state holiday of sorts, parents shouldn’t have to hit their own books as hard to pay for necessary materials. The now permanent summertime sales tax holiday in Ohio, held each year on the …

A Swanton man dies in a solo crash in East Toledo. Officials say Donald Johnson was a passenger in a vehicle traveling northbound on Front Street. Then, the car, driven by Marion Leininger, veers off the road to the right…hitting a large metal support post. Both crash victims were taken …

Isaiah Oliver, accused of three armed robberies in Putman County is arrested. Officials tell reporters one victim said a man had held them at gunpoint and took cash and a cell phone. While gathering information from the victim, another officer found there were two other victims who reported being robbed …

The Indiana State Police arrests two Kendallville residents after a lengthy burglary investigation and a standoff with police. DeKalb County deputies were dispatched to a C.R. 4 location in Waterloo on a burglary call. When they arrive, they find the home ransacked with many items, including a pickup truck, reported …

The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation will reduce premium rates for public employers an average of 10% next year, under a proposal discussed by the BWC’s Board of Directors and backed by Governor, Mike DeWine. If approved by the board, the reduction would save Ohio’s 3,700 school districts, cities, and …