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A resolution passed by the North Central Board of Education offers no further insight into why the board felt it necessary to reprimand Eric Smeltzer, district treasurer and varsity coach. The school board had an executive session last week resulting in the decision. The board voted 4-1 to give Smeltzer …

New scholarships, funded through the Choose Ohio First program will boost Ohio’s efforts to strengthen the state’s workforce in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics. The scholarship will support an estimated 3,400 students pursuing STEM degrees and certificates. The new funding marks the fourth round of grants for …

An extension ladder is to blame for a crash involving a large truck that shut down a stretch of I 69 in DeKalb County. State troopers responded to the rollover accident blocking northbound traffic on I-69 near the 326 mile marker, just north of the County Road 11A exit, in …

Two people are badly hurt in an Amboy Township, at the intersection of State Route 64 and County Road T. Officials say Patricia Schudel, 74, of Metamora, was driving west on County Road T and failed to stop at a stop sign. Her vehicle hit an oncoming pickup truck, driven …

An Ohio man…who federal officials say is a member of the far-right anti-government group the “boogaloo boys” pleads not guilty to charges that he threatened law enforcement and unlawfully possessed a machine gun. Aron McKillips, 29, of Sandusky, entered his plea during a court hearing in Toledo. The charges he …

Ohio’s attorney general has asked the Ohio Supreme Court to weigh in on the future of the state’s near-ban on abortions, despite arguing less than six months ago that the same court lacked jurisdiction to determine the paused law’s constitutionality. Attorney General, Dave Yost appealed for the high court’s intervention. …

In Fremont…a mother and three children have die in a house fire, early Saturday. Crews were dispatched to East Toledo Street. Flames and smoke engulfed the place as the fire teams deployed at the scene. All four victims were taken to Cameron Hospital in Angola…the three children were pronounced dead …

The Ohio State Highway Patrol is investigating a two-vehicle crash Friday in Washington Township at the intersection of Mulligan’s Bluff Road and state Route 15. Officials say…22-year-old Nicholas Jacob was northbound on Mulligan’s Bluff Road. They say Jacob failed to stop at the state Route 15 interchange. That’s when 38-year-old …

A conservative state lawmaker who lost to a fellow Republican in last week’s vote to determine who will lead the Ohio House as speaker says he has the support of most of the members of his party in the chamber. The fractures among Republicans raise questions about how the House …

Ohio prison officials shouldn’t be able to extend certain inmates’ time behind bars because the law that enabled that is unconstitutional, attorneys for two imprisoned men argued Wednesday before the state Supreme Court. At issue is part of a 2019 law that lets Ohio’s Department of Rehabilitation and Correction argue …