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With the help of a federal grant, the Village of Edgerton intends to work on a street project this year. Officials say the $37,500 will help fund the Oak Street storm sewer improvement project. The money comes from the federally funded Community Development Block Grant program. The project will replace …

On Tuesday, Montpelier Schools is hosting its National Geographic Bee. The winner of the school competition will then compete for a chance to go against the best at the state level. The national championship will be in May in Washington, D.C. The competition’s grand prize is a $50,000 college scholarship. …

A woman who was in Jeshua Gilmore’s car…when he shot Fulton County Sheriff’s Deputy Jeremy Simon in July, is sentenced. Skye Thibodeaux, of Lyons, got 30 months in prison. She plead guilty to obstructing official business for the July 31 incident. Deputy Simon was dispatched to the Country Corral on …

A Michigan man is injured in a semi crash, near Hicksville. Michael Balent, of Tecumseh, was taken from the scene by air ambulance to Parkview Memorial in Fort Wayne, with non-life-threatening injuries. Investigators say Balent was eastbound on Ohio 249, east of the Ohio-Indiana state line and left the roadway …

A traffic stop ends in a DUI arrest for a Bryan man. Troopers pulled over Gabriel Nichols on Ohio 15, between Holiday City and Bryan after they clocked him going 128 mph. Officials say it was his fifth drunk driving charge within 10 years…and the seventh in his lifetime, making …

A federal judge is scheduled to sentence an Ohio man, who plotted to kill military members in the U.S., following a delay in the case when a previous judge withdrew. Abdirahman Sheik Mohamud, who was born in Somalia but came to the U.S. as a child, was arrested in 2015 …

Did you see it??!! A meteor was spotted throughout the tri-state region the other night. NASA confirms that it was a meteoroid entering the atmosphere. The flashing light and loud boom felt across the area was seen as far away as New York City and parts of Canada. People reported …

The Corrections Center of Northwest Ohio’s executive board met to review and modify its administrative release policy to ensure bed space for future inmates is always available to each of its five county members. For 2018, the U.S. Marshals Service reserved 85 beds and the Post Release Control program reserved …

A Hicksville man, who declared his intention to seek Ohio’s 1st Senate District seat, changes his mind. Republican, Neil Curry had announced last year that he would seek the seat that had been occupied by Cliff Hite of Findlay. That was filled recently by Rob McColley of Napoleon. Curry says …

Bryan Board of Public Affairs member, Bill Pepple announces he is resigning from the BPA, effective next week. Pepple, whose retirement as United Way of Williams County executive director also takes effect then, is moving away from Bryan, so he had to step down. The board asked that any city …