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Defiance Police is investigating the theft and subsequent crash of a CSX work truck. Officials say the vehicle was parked on the railroad tracks at the crossing on Squires Avenue…left unattended on the tracks east of the crossing. Minutes later, a CSX train approached from the west and struck the …

An 18-year-old woman is taken to the hospital after crashing into two guardrails and then another car on IN-327 in Garret. Apparently, a tire blew…then, the woman lost control of her car, went off the west side of the road and hit a guardrail. They say she then over-corrected, crossed …

Dozens of Ohio charter schools at risk of closing unless they get higher grades on their forthcoming 2019 state report cards are receiving at least a one-year reprieve under the new state budget. Previously those public schools, also known as community schools, were to be shut down if they received …

The Indiana Department of Child Services says child neglect and abuse deaths increased during fiscal year 2017. A report released Friday details 65 deaths that resulted directly from abuse or neglect. That’s up from 59 child deaths in fiscal year 2016…44 were due to neglect and 21 were caused by …

A crash, involving an Indiana State Trooper, leaves two people dead on the Indiana Toll Road in LaGrange County. Troopers, Jacob Bill and Osbaldo Regalado are traveling west on the Toll Road, near Fremont when Regalado swerves to the right lane to avoid slowing traffic…crashing into the back of an …

The state disqualifies one ride at the Ohio State Fair…after inspectors find visible corrosion. It is reviewing four others. None of the five operated at the fair, which opened Wednesday. Dorothy Pelanda, director of the Ohio Department of Agriculture, which oversees the fair, says the four other rides could be …

Indiana’s legislative leaders hire an outside attorney to represent the General Assembly in a federal lawsuit…alleging state Attorney General, Curtis Hill drunkenly groped four women during a party marking the end of last year’s legislative session. A state lawmaker and three legislative staffers sued Hill and the state of Indiana …

The unemployment rate in Fulton County was up during the month of June, but remained low, according to data released by the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services. The unemployment rate for the county in June was 3.9 percent, compared to 3.4 in May. Last June, the jobless rate …

A roughly $1 billion financial rescue for Ohio’s two nuclear power plants is on the way after lawmakers and the governor signed off on a plan that will add a new fee to every electricity bill in the state. Backed mostly by Republicans, the legislation will hand over $150 million …

The state says it’s installing Ohio’s first electronic wrong-way driver detection system. Gov. DeWine and Department of Transportation Director Jack Marchbanks says the system will be placed along an 18-mile stretch of I-71 in Hamilton County in southwestern Ohio. It includes 92 electronic signs and 82 detection devices at 23 …