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The Edgerton Planning Commission approves the creation of Knox Addition, despite some citizens expressing concerns with the plans. The addition includes 15 lots in the area of Ohio 49. After many questions by those citizens were answered, the Commission voted unanimously for approval.

Two accomplices indicted in the slayings of a couple at their used car lot in Cleveland are accused of helping the suspected shooter, who already was charged. Authorities accuse the newly indicted suspects of helping to rob the business in April as victims Trina Tomola and Michael Kuznik were closing …

A 15-year-old Ohio boy, accused of killing his father’s longtime girlfriend, will be tried as an adult. A juvenile court judge ordered the case transferred to Champaign County’s adult court. The boy was 14 when Heidi Taylor was killed in April. The teen told a 911 dispatcher an alternate personality …

A proposed bill in the Ohio House would prohibit the release of police body camera footage under certain conditions, including video shot inside a home. The legislation would also ban release of video if it’s considered a confidential record, was taken inside a business or recorded the victim of a …

30 firefighters from four fire departments respond to Hillandale Farms in Edgerton for an grain elevator fire. The blaze is under investigation.

An 11-month investigation leads to four arrests by officers in Defiance. Cocaine and methamphetamine were found in large quantities. Juan Montez, Valentino Urbina, Theodore Berner and Rodolfo Garay all face drug charges. In conjunction with the investigation, a search warrant was executed at an undisclosed Defiance home, where a half-pound …

The sixth annual Lights for Lives effort will be observed this week, focusing on saving lives over the upcoming holiday season. Lights for Lives is a multi-agency, multi-jurisdictional, cooperative enforcement campaign, focused on officers activating their overhead lights in response to dangerous driving behaviors…and saving as many lives as possible. …

The Wood County Sheriff’s office reports crews were on the scene of a hazmat situation. The incident occurred on State Route 795 and Luckey Road. Officials say nickel sulfate possibly spilled across the road. State specialists are looking into the incident.

An investigation is underway after more than 30 people are taken to the hospital, following an incident at the Allen County Jail in downtown Fort Wayne. In all, 32 confinement officers and one jail nurse were taken in for treatment. Officers went to D-Block of the jail on the suspicion …

An 11-year-old Topeka boy is struck and killed by a vehicle as he walked with a small wagon along a LaGrange County roadway. Police and medics were called to C.R. 400 South just west of C.R. 700 West. Investigators say 63-year-old Eva Kurtz of Middlebury was headed eastbound on 400 …