News

Opioids and tobacco claimed the lives of 14,200 Indiana residents last year, costing the state $12.6 billion in health care expenses, lost productivity and other economic damages, two new reports say. The studies released last week by the Richard M. Fairbanks Foundation recommends Indiana raise the state’s cigarette tax by …

It’s time for the Winefest over in Holiday City. It’s a chance to sample some of the finest wine Ohio has to offer. It’s coming up on Saturday at the Quality Inn and Suites. Great wineries of the Buckeye State that have previously been featured include Majestic Oak Winery, Stoney …

Now these are outstanding numbers. The unemployment rate in Fulton County drops to under 4 percent in September, that’s according to data recently released by the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services. The rate fell to 3.5 percent in the county from 4.2 percent in August. Last September, the …

Montpelier officials have declared what is called an overflow event. Apparently there is a good chance untreated human sewage has been allowed to get into the St. Joe River. What they are saying is the flow may be submerged and the fear is bacteria, described as harmful could be mixing …

The President comes to the area…Memorial Coliseum officials in Ft. Wayne have issued a Traffic and Event Advisory, ahead of President, Trump’s scheduled rally there on Monday. The President goes on the stump for GOP Senate candidate, Mike Braun at 6:30 at the Coliseum. Doors for the event open at …

An accusation…made 21 years after the fact. Officials say a woman called the Williams County Sheriff’s Office to report she was assaulted by a supervisor at the Corrections Center of Northwest Ohio, back in 1997. Officials confirm after an investigation that she was talking about Jeffrey Corbett, the supervisor of …

A suspect is loose at this hour after a bank robbery in Metamora. Investigators say the man…6 feet, 200 pounds…was able to get away with an undisclosed amount of loot from the Metamora State Bank. They say he didn’t use a weapon in the heist. Investigators from the FBI’s Toledo …

There’s new leadership at one area campus. Northwest State Community College’s nursing program has a new dean. With Patti Altman set to retire in January, the school has hired her successor, Dr. Kathy Keister. Keister was one of two faculty members who helped start the nursing program at NSCC, then …

Trine University gets a $1 million gift from alumnus and Board of Trustees member, Larry Reiners and his wife Judy, of Tulsa, Oklahoma, to establish the Larry & Judy Reiners Endowed Scholarship Fund. Earnings from the fund will provide scholarships, renewable for up to four years, for six Trine undergraduate …

A solo crash kills a Defiance man. Officials say David Nussbaum was northbound on Wilhelm Road when his vehicle leaves the roadway. Nussbaum then overcorrects and goes off the other side of the road…hitting a pole, then a tree. On its side, the truck explodes. The fire destroys the vehicle. …