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A Defiance man is killed early Sunday in a solo crash on County Road 424, near Overly Road in Richland Township. Jacob Elders, 19, was pronounced dead at the scene by the Defiance County coroner. Investigators say Elders’ vehicle went out of control on a curve, struck a tree and …

The Ohio Highway Patrol will hold a checkpoint in Williams County, tonight. Funded by federal grants, it is expected to deter and intercept impaired drivers. There were 313 DUI related crashes in 2016, in which 346 people were killed last year in Ohio. State troopers make on average 25,000 DUI …

A man who robbed a gas station on Defiance’s eastside earlier this year is sentenced to prison. Julio Collazo was given a 10-year term for aggravated robbery and assault. He had entered guilty pleas to the charges on May 26. He will be eligible for early judicial release after serving …

A Hicksville man enters pleas to two child sexual abuse charges in a Defiance County courtroom. Christopher Lake is accused of performing the acts in 2016 with a 7-year-old girl at a Hicksville residence. In a plea deal, Lake had been indicted on a charge of rape, a first-degree felony …

A man is hurt badly during a fight in Hamilton. A group of people were in a parking lot near Church Street and Water Street. Investigators say the victim was hospitalized with life threatening injuries…it is unclear how he was injured. They added they don’t know why the group of …

An Ohio state trooper is injured after a pursuit this morning on northbound I-75 in North Toledo. The chase started on Highway 23 in Michigan, where the suspect failed to stop for police. He continued into Ohio, and police picked up the chase near the 75/475 split. Then, the driver …

Edon Northwest Local Schools is losing its elementary principal. The Board accepted the resignation of Edon Elementary School Principal Michelle Molargik. District Superintendent, Anthony Stevens has already started advertising the position and requested setting a special meeting this month for the purposes of hiring a new principal.

A bridge on County Road M.50 in Williams County will be closed for replacement, beginning Aug. 28. It is located about 200 feet west of County Road 21.N. The bridge replacement is part of a larger ODOT Turnpike Mitigation paving project in which several county roads near the Ohio Turnpike …

The opening this week of a new Dollar General store in Stryker makes six of its stores in Williams County since the first one opened in Bryan in 1996. The Stryker store, on N. Defiance St., joins locations in Bryan, West Unity, Montpelier, Pioneer and Edgerton.

If a Senate repeal-only health care bill comes to the floor in the coming days, Sen. Rob Portman says he’s not likely to vote for it. During the press conference call, Portman reiterated many of the points he has made throughout the debate on Republican plans to repeal and replace …