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Two issues affecting voters in Montpelier, West Unity and Millcreek are on the ballot in Tuesday’s special election. Voters in Montpelier precincts A and B will cast ballots for or against a renewal of a 0.3 percent income tax levy for improvements and debt service on the village’s sewage and …

Federal regulators direct the state to work on resolving its backlog of more than 70,000 applications from poor and disabled Ohioans seeking Medicaid benefits. Regulators have indicated Ohio isn’t where it needs to be regarding Medicaid applications and remain concerned, even though the number of pending applications has dropped about …

Nearly 500 people gather at Kent State to remember the students killed and injured there in May 1970, when Ohio National Guard members opened fire during Vietnam War protests. Events included a candlelight vigil at the sites where the four slain students fell. Nine other students were injured that day.

Helen Marie (Potts) Grisier, age 81, of Stryker, passed away on Sunday, May 5, 2019, at CHP – Defiance Area Inpatient Hospice. Along with her husband, Fred, they owned and operated the Grisier Funeral Homes for nearly 50 years. Helen was born in Defiance, Ohio, on April 20, 1938, the …

One person is hurt in a vehicle versus train crash in Wauseon, at Fulton County Road E. Fire crews were called to the scene and the vehicle’s driver was taken to an area hospital for treatment.

First responders and hazmat teams were at the scene of a milk truck crash in Putnam County, on County Road 18, south of Road B. Officials say a big rig, driven by Joshua Palczewski of Defiance, was hauling milk and went off the right side of the roadway. The truck …

Fulton County deputies were a part of a traffic enforcement blitz, last month. 17 traffic stops and four citations were issued for speeding and DUI.

State income taxes for low and moderate earners in Ohio would be eliminated or reduced under the latest version of the state budget, unveiled by House Republicans. The proposal before the state’s House Finance Committee eliminates personal income tax for those earning less than $22,500 a year. The bill would …

Ohio’s system for intervening in poor-performing school districts would change significantly under a bill passed by the Republican-led House. In repeatedly underperforming districts, current law shifts operational control from locally elected school boards to state-appointed panels and unelected CEOs. The new plan that passed 83-12 would end those so-called “state …

Defiance’s former high school may get a new lease on life. Officials discussed a proposal that might help City Hall acquire the old school, built in 1918, from the Board of Education. The building was replaced when the new building opened in January 2018. Since then, school officials have held …