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Ohio Rail Development Commission approves a 100 thousand dollar grant to North Star Bluescope Steel in Delta. The funds support a planned $700 million plant expansion that will create 90 new jobs at the facility. The project involves $1.7 million in rail infrastructure, necessary to feed the new expansion. Rail …

A divided Ohio Supreme Court upholds a state law in a 4-3 decision, invalidating a Cleveland requirement that public construction contractors hire city residents for a portion of work on projects. A 2003 Cleveland ordinance mandates that residents must perform 20% of the total hours on public construction projects over …

The long-awaited Defiance Rib Fest is just days away. Organized by the Defiance Development and Visitors Bureau, downtown will be busy with the sounds of two bands and ribs from nine local vendors…it’s on from 4-11 p.m. on Saturday. Admission is $5…those 65 and older, or children under 10, are …

Michael Loop is sentenced in a Paulding County courtroom to 22 years in prison in the shooting death of Phillip Koenn…at Koenn’s rural Cecil residence…while committing a 2018 burglary. He was given credit for 368 days served in jail while his case was pending.

Donald Richcreek, the Oakwood man accused of killing his brother, is arraigned in Paulding County. Richcreek pled not guilty to murder and weapons charges in the Aug. 10 shooting death of his brother, Anthony. A pretrial hearing is set for Nov. 4. If convicted, Richcreek could be sentenced to a …

Unemployment rates fell slightly throughout the region in August. Williams County’s jobless rate went back down to 3.4 percent from 3.6 in July…still higher than June’s rate of 3.3 percent. Officials say the county’s unemployment numbers are some of the lowest in the state. An estimated 18,700 people in the …

A Meet the Candidates public forum in the election for the Bryan City Council, the Bryan School Board and the Bryan Board of Public Affairs is set for Wednesday, Oct. 9, at the Stoney Ridge Winery, on County Road 16 in Bryan. There will be forums for each of the …

A 14-year-old boy is brought in after a school lockdown at Jefferson High School in Delphos. Word spreads a gun may be hidden on the campus…to be used to carry out a school shooting. The administration immediately puts the school into lockdown mode. Classes are then dismissed for the day …

They won’t name names…but a suspect is arrested in connection to the Sept. 16 bank robbery in Lyons, at the State Bank on E. Morenci Street. The investigation continues.

Police in Defiance want a suspected car thief after a shooting, involving the vehicle’s owner. The victim in the theft tells officers he saw someone driving his vehicle in the area of South Clinton and Down streets in Defiance, and therefore decided to follow the individual. The suspect starts firing …