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Two Ohio groups have pro­vided grants to fight human traf­fick­ing. Nine orga­ni­za­tions will get their share of $90,000. Children’s Lantern serves Defi­ance, Henry, Pauld­ing, Ful­ton, Put­nam and Williams coun­ties. And Sis­ters in Shel­ter reaches 14 coun­ties includ­ing those. The grants are to help iden­tify and help at-risk youth pop­u­la­tions and …

The Fairview Schools Fund has raised more than $100,000 in just two years through dona­tions and pledges. It was started in 2013 to ben­e­fit stu­dents and teach­ers of Cen­tral Local Schools.

Sen­a­tor Sher­rod Brown wants to expand school lunch pro­grams dur­ing sum­mer vaca­tion. Brown said yes­ter­day that the mea­sure called the Hunger Free Sum­mer for KIds Act has cleared the Sen­ate Agri­cul­ture Com­mit­tee. He said the bill will increase access to sum­mer fed­eral child nutri­tion pro­grams by mak­ing it eas­ier for …

Author­i­ties are look­ing for Snake Lin­de­myer, one of three men they say com­mit­ted a home bur­glary last Fri­day on County Road R. The other two were arrested at the scene. They are 46-year-old Michael Fitch of Cam­den, Michi­gan and 28-year-old Jes­sica Stotz of West Unity. They were caught after one …

If you have some extra time on your hands, you’re needed at ProMed­ica Regional Hos­pi­tal. The Aux­il­iary is look­ing for vol­un­teers to help out in the gift shop, thrift shop or the cof­fee cart. You can vol­un­teer for sev­eral hours or more on var­i­ous days. Con­tact Gina at the hos­pi­tal …

In news that affects your wal­let, in the vil­lage of Lib­erty Cen­ter, waste­water rates are going up seven per­cent. The increase is pay­ing for the village’s oxi­da­tion ditch project.

All the good spellers from area schools in Defi­ance County will com­pete Tues­day evening for the county title of spelling bee cham­pion at the Ayersville Local School audi­to­rium. The win­ner advances to the regional spelling bee in Fort Wayne on March 5th.

Hun­dreds attended a talk by a Toledo lawyer about mar­i­juana in the work­place, held in Arch­bold Tues­day. Attor­ney Tom Dixon told the audi­ence that med­ical mar­i­juana is likely to become legal in the state, after Repub­li­cans cre­ated a task force to inves­ti­gate it. And a new poll shows that 90 …

The Bomber’s Saloon and Steak­house co-manager indicted on pros­ti­tu­tion charges had a pre­lim­i­nary hear­ing post­poned yes­ter­day. It’s the sec­ond con­tin­u­ance in the case of Eric John­ston. The Edon Police Depart­ment says they’ve had a long-term inves­ti­ga­tion of the man for sus­pected com­pelling minor pros­ti­tu­tion of a 15-year-old last month, and …

Deputies arrested Bryan res­i­dent Richard O. Jones on rape charges. The 68-year-old man was indicted on nine gross sex­ual impo­si­tion charges and one indict­ment of rape. He was taken to the Cor­rec­tions Cen­ter of North­west Ohio and booked into the jail.