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The office of Auburn Mayor, Michael Ley reports…long-serving Auburn Common Councilman Michael Walter died over the weekend. Dr. Mark Souder and Mayor Ley found Walter in his home while checking on him. Both had done a welfare check on Walter earlier in the week.) Walter, 76 was the lone Democrat …

Archbold schools were under lockdown during a police pursuit…one mile from Archbold High School and Archbold Elementary School. Officials say…at no time was there an immediate threat to any building, Soon after…the district was informed that the suspect had been apprehended…ending the lockdown. The campuses then resumed their regular schedules.

Republican Ohio House Speaker Jason Stephens is asserting that he controls his caucus and its campaign coffers, despite claims to the contrary by an unyielding, rival GOP group. It’s the latest chapter in a saga of infighting among the legislative chamber’s Republican supermajority…that is calling into question how lawmakers will …

An area woman…charged in a shooting last week…is bound over to a Defiance County grand jury. Cara Cordes, 60, waived her right to a preliminary hearing…on a charge of felonious assault, a second-degree felony. Her case now goes over to common pleas court for grand jury proceedings…expected to take place, …

The Paulding man…charged in a double homicide last month is arraigned in a Paulding County courtroom. Clay Dockery pled not guilty and not guilty by reason of insanity to two counts of aggravated murder. The judge accepted the verbal plea and asked that it be submitted to the court in …

Manuel Cruz Jr. is sentenced on three charges of gross sexual imposition. Cruz, 20, pled guilty to three charges, in all. He had two cases against him, having had two victims. In exchange for his plea, charges of unlawful restraint and rape, were dropped. Each of the gross sexual imposition …

A Defiance County Sheriff’s deputy has resigned following his recent conviction on two misdemeanor offenses in Van Wert while his attorney said he was involved in an off-duty dispute not of his making. According to Defiance County Sheriff Doug Engel, Agustin Hinojosa, 35, resigned his position as a deputy prior …

The Steuben County Board of Zoning Appeals denies a proposal for a cattle operation that would have housed around 8,000 cows in Steuben County…located south of Clear Lake. The move comes after the proposal received significant public opposition from residents who feared the cattle operation would cause problems for nearby …

The Ohio House passes internal rules and can now proceed with its work, despite an ongoing fight over power within the fractured GOP supermajority, which spurred competing claims about who’s leading Republicans there, shouting by lawmakers during Tuesday’s session and even talk of a possible lawsuit.

A space heater and something combustible is the likely cause of a fire Saturday afternoon in Edgerton that left one person with smoke inhalation. Crews were called out to 134 E. Morrison St. Officials are calling it an accidental fire, though they don’t know the exact cause. Fire was coming …