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“Don’t play Pokemon Go near substations” utility warns

This Pokemon Go craze is big. It’s the most downloaded app, even surpassing Candy Crush. There’s been bizarre stories already this week about people playing the real-world game on their smartphone, in places that they really shouldn’t be, like the National Holocaust Museum and Auschwitz. Now here at home, North …

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Proposal limits public access to Ohio police body cameras

A proposal in Ohio would set certain rules for public access to video footage captured by police body cameras. Legislation from a Dayton-area state house Republican would spell out that body camera videos are a public record, except for footage recorded inside a private residence. The legislation would bar public …

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Panel suggests AG’s office only handle police lethal use of force cases

A panel appointed by Ohio Chief Justice Maureen O’Connor to study ways to improve the grand jury system is recommending that the Ohio attorney general has exclusive authority to investigate cases involving police use of lethal force. That report came out yesterday. Other recommendations in the report address the secrecy …

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Bryan man injured in Paulding County crash

A Bryan driver was seriously hurt in a crash yesterday when his car and a wrecker collided on U.S. 24 in Paulding County. Troopers from the Highway Patrol in Van Wert said 19-year-old Preston Downs was rushed by medical helicopter to a Toledo Hospital. He was in serious condition at …

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DNA still not back in missing girl case tied to Bryan

Still no word on the DNA sample provided by a Bryan woman, who’s ex-husband believes may be a missing girl from Wisconsin. Bryan police got the woman to give two samples of saliva in separate tests to determine if she is the person who went missing from her elementary school. …

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Trump stumps in neighboring Indiana

Donald Trump campaigned for the presidency yesterday in the Hoosier state with Governor Mike Pence, just a week before the Republican National Convention will convene in Cleveland. The rally in Westerfield Indiana included a few new messages from Trump, including a call to end the hostility against our police and …

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Bryan woman’s DNA results pending

Still no word on the DNA sample provided by a Bryan woman, who’s ex-husband believes may be a missing girl from Minnesota. Bryan police got the woman to give two samples of saliva in separate tests to determine if she is the person who went missing from her elementary school. …

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Dumpster death will not result in charges

It’s taken nearly 17 years, but finally a Sandusky grand jury today decided that no charges will be filed after a man was crushed inside a garbage truck outside a tavern in 1999. The 21-year-old man had been inside a Dumpster that was emptied into a garbage truck and then …

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GOP convention details coming out now

Details are being released about the Republican National Convention in Cleveland. Delegates are coming in on Sunday, greeted by the Doobie Brothers and Lynyrd Skynyrd concerts. Delegates will visit the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with Governor John Kasich, and various meals and receptions with political big shots.

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Swanton woman sentenced for theft

A Swanton woman was sentenced in the Fulton County Common Pleas Court after she plead guilty to theft. 24-year-old Angela Alexander was sentenced to 2 years of community control. She plead guilty to theft from a person in a protected class. In December, Alexander stole a cell phone from an …

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