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Another scam in the area. This time its Ohio Gas Company customers getting the phony call. The scammer says he is with the company…your bill is late…and if you want your service to stay on…give them the number to your debit or credit card to make immediate payment. Ohio Gas …

Someone breaks into a barn on County Road 1 in Swanton…picks out a steer…and kills it. The suspect also butchers the carcass and gets away with the meat…about 200 pounds of it. The property owner says he saw people on his farm earlier but didn’t make the connection. Investigators say …

Ohio officials give a local probation department the 2018 Clifford Skeen Award as the top Jail Diversion Program in the state. This is the third time the Bryan Municipal Probation Department has received the award. Bryan beat out 121 other programs in the state.

The North Central Board of Education is allowing the Ohio Gas Company to install a gas line on the district’s property. The board voted unanimously to approve the easement. The line will run along the east side of the plot.

Crews respond to a house fire in Pioneer. Officials say it was a small one in the attic of the W. Lynn Street address. City teams took care of it quickly. Damage is described as minimal. It looks like something electrical is to blame. No one was hurt.

The story of international proportions now hits our local community. Williams County prosecutors and Montpelier Police are opening an investigation…directed at Father Nelson Beaver…accused of sexually abusing a child over 25 years ago when Beaver was a pastor at Sacred Heart in Montpelier. Now, Bishop Daniel Thomas places Father Beaver, …

Two people are safe after a house erupts in flames in New Haven. It was a wiring issue they say. The blaze was put out by local crews pretty quickly in the attic but between the fire…the smoke…and the water applied to all that to extinguish the flames…the homes is …

Coral Fetzer, a former Paulding County Soil and Water Conservation District employee, accused of stealing from the agency to the tune of roughly 75 hundred dollars…is indicted on theft charges. They say she doctored electronic records to cover the trail, between 2012 and 2016.

A Defiance man is indicted on charges in the September death of a Cecil man. Michael Loop is accused of aggravated murder. Investigators say Loop broke into the Road 230 home of 60 year old Phillip Koenn. Officers later found Koenn’s body inside after the shooting. Bond is set at …

Authorities want a hit and run suspect in Dekalb County. Garrett Police says someone was hit in an area parking lot. Check their website for a photo of the person of interest if you can help in the case.