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The Williams County commissioners give their approval for a .29 mill health department levy to be put on the November ballot. Officials say…it would be for 10 years and, if needed, would help fund the consolidation of the health district offices from a building in Montpelier and one in Bryan …

The County commissioners approve nearly $100,000 dollars in fund transfers for an equipment upgrade for Williams County Hillside Country Living. The transfer amounted to $96,241 dollars from unappropriated funds to Capital Assets-Building/Improvements. The commissioners also approved a biannual affiliation renewal agreement between Williams County Common Pleas Court/Adult Probation and Northwest …

In a blow to abortion opponents in Ohio, a fall ballot issue, aimed at enshrining access to the procedure in state’s constitution will not be split into two separate issues…one about abortion, and one about other reproductive healthcare. In a unanimous ruling…the Ohio Supreme Court sided with the bipartisan Ohio …

Ohio parents could soon see more taxpayer money in their pockets to help send their schoolchildren to private and religious schools, or fund homeschooling, under changes to a voucher program that Republican state lawmakers and the governor must hammer out by month’s end. Ohio has had some form of vouchers …

The Republican secretaries of state in Ohio, West Virginia and Missouri have promoted their states’ elections as fair and secure. Yet each also is navigating a fine line on how to address election fraud conspiracies as they gear up campaigns for U.S. Senate or governor in 2024. The split-screen messaging …

The man who escaped from a northwest Ohio prison earlier this month died from drowning, that’s according to autopsy results. Bradley Gillespie, 50, was reported missing May 23 from the Allen Oakwood Correctional Institution in Lima along with another man who authorities said escaped alongside him. Authorities determined the two …

Like most states, Ohio is projected to see a rise in the amount of dementia diagnoses over the next five years. Currently, there are 220,000 people age 65 and older who are living with dementia in Ohio…that’s according to the Alzheimer’s Association. That number is expected to be 250,000 by …

Members of the county came together to honor the lives of those lost in combat. during a Memorial Day parade and ceremony at Fountain Grove Cemetery. In Bryan, the mayor offered remarks about the importance of Memorial Day at the beginning of the city’s ceremony. After the speech, she asked …

A convicted murderer who escaped last week from a northwest Ohio prison with another inmate by hiding in a trash container was found dead after his body was spotted floating in the Ohio River, police in Kentucky say. The discovery brought to a close a manhunt for the missing inmate, …

An Angola man faces a felony charge and several misdemeanor charges after leading police on a motorcycle pursuit, in Steuben County. When officers arrived, they learned that 48-year-old James Slabaugh II was reportedly on the property in violation of a protective order…at a County Road W location. Then the chase…it …