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A six-year-old girl dies while swimming at Bixler Lake in Kendallville. According to the Indiana Department of Natural Resources, she was last seen in shallow water before relatives found her unresponsive sometime later. Family members and first responders attempted life-saving efforts, but she was pronounced dead at the scene. The …

State Rep. Bob Young is arrested and charged with domestic violence, accused of assaulting a family member. Officials say…Young struck the person in the face and then threw her phone into a pool to prevent her from calling 911. Young, who appeared in court…is now subject to several protection orders, …

The Supreme Court leaves in place…a decision that allows more than 230 men to sue Ohio State University over decades-old sexual abuse by a university doctor, the late Richard Strauss. Two cases involving the abuse were on a list of many cases the court said it would not hear. Ohio …

Officers in Hicksville are looking for a driver who fired shots at a pedestrian Thursday night…near the intersection of Elm and East Cornelia streets. The shots were fired from inside a pickup truck, toward an individual standing in the area. No injuries were reported. The shooter is described as a …

Lobbyist, Matt Borges appeals his 5-year sentence…in the $60 million dollar bribery scheme that also took down former Ohio House Speaker, Larry Householder. Borges, 51, a former chair of the Ohio Republican Party, was convicted in March of racketeering alongside Householder. Officials say…the scheme involved secret payments to Akron-based utility …

Lt. Gov. Jon Husted has made protecting Ohio’s youth from social media a priority, and the state legislature followed suit. As part of the recently-passed state budget bill, the legislature included the Social Media Notification Act, which requires social media companies like Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and TikTok to require parental …

Ohio Sen., Sherrod Brown believes American tax dollars should be spent on American products, and that should apply to more than manufacturing. That is why he is introducing the bipartisan American Food for American Schools Act, which would require schools to purchase American sourced food products for meals. The bill …

The Bryan Board of Public Affairs unanimously approves a request from Bryan City Schools and the Bryan Athletic Boosters…for a waiver of fees on meters and wiring permits. The request was being made in light of the athletic complex project going on at the high school. Part of that project …

Bryan native Veronica Richer is accepted to the Academy of Vocal Arts in Philadelphia, for a four-year paid residency. The 27-year-old opera singer is one of two sopranos selected to join during the 2023 audition season. Richer said she has been singing opera for over 10 years, since she was …

Firefighters are dispatched to a fire in rural Huntertown that leaves a home severely damaged…in the 4700 block of McComb Road, just northeast of town. Crews arrive to find heavy smoke billowing throughout the whole house…with flames at the back of the place. They say the fire team ran into …