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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 …

A federal program to help injured veterans and their spouses conceive children through in vitro fertilization is being hobbled by anti-abortion forces that oppose how the process can lead to embryos being destroyed. Since 2012, Democrats in Congress have repeatedly championed legislation permanently extending IVF benefits to veterans whose injuries …

Gov. Mike DeWine is continuing the tradition of a sleep-over at the Ohio State Fair. The Republican governor and his wife, Fran DeWine, will tour livestock barns in the early evening and later join in a campfire at the Natural Resources Park, where they will then spend the night. The …

A search by officers at an East Wilson Street home in Williams County leads to a single arrest and the recovery of drug paraphernalia related to meth and heroin. Eight people were initially held without incident during the search. Amanda Edwards of Pioneer was taken to CCNO on charges. The …