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Officers execute a search warrant at a residence in Fayette and find a homemade explosive device. The Toledo Police Department sent a team from its Bomb Squad to diffuse it and take it into evidence. Officers also seized three handguns, four rifles and a variety of drug paraphernalia. The resident …

New Haven Police have a person of interest after finding a body inside a home Saturday afternoon. Officers were called to a Sherbrook Drive residence. A person called police for a well-being check after not seeing a family member for awhile. Police went to the home and found the homeowner …

Two people are dead after a two-vehicle crash in Wood County on US 6 at Rudolph Road in Plain Township. A southbound car failed to yield at a stop sign…it collided with an SUV. Both the driver and the front seat passenger of the car were pronounced dead at the …

Police were on the scene of a crash in Wood County on US 23, north of Gibsonburg Road in Freedom Township. An Ohio State Highway Patrol trooper was on a traffic stop when he saw a car, driven by 28-year-old Devin Foreman, traveling on State Route 600 run a stop …

Two local races from the Nov. 7 General Election remain in question. In Northwest Township, Duane Reamer was a clear winner with 177 votes but Doug Crawford and Robert Kissinger II tied with 166. All 506 votes cast in the township race will be recounted next week. If the race …

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.