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A Montpelier man is sentenced to a maximum sentence of life imprisonment in a Williams County courtroom in a sexual abuse case involving two children. Jonathon Standish, 45, was given prison terms totaling 19 1/2 years to life on charges of rape and more. He was also classified as a …

Senator, Sherrod Brown announces the Department of Agriculture’s community facilities emergency rural health care program has awarded a $496,300 dollar grant to Community Memorial Hospital in Hicksville. The funding will be used to recover some of the revenue the hospital lost during the pandemic…to help ensure continued care for the …

The Ohio Supreme Court has dismissed a lawsuit…challenging Gov., DeWine’s authority to end Ohio’s participation in a federal pandemic unemployment aid program…ahead of the federal government’s 2021 deadline for stopping the payments. The court’s unanimous decision on Tuesday called the case moot, without any additional explanation. At issue before the …

Impairment and failure to wear a seat belt appear to have played a role in the death of a woman who died after her car left the road and slammed into a tree on State Route 575 near County Road G in Center Township. Officials say…the victim was driving south …

The William County Board of Elections on Monday reviewed provisional ballots and certified the final results of the Nov. 8 general election. Of 224 provisional ballots cast Nov. 8, the election board OK’d 172 and found that 52 were unable to be counted, due to reasons set forth in the …

A man…granted a new trial in the murders of three men in Ohio more than a decade and a half ago has been released after reaching a plea agreement with prosecutors. Stoney Thompson, 43, was originally sentenced in Lucas County to three consecutive life terms in the October 2006 slayings …

A man accused of shooting two people in Montpelier in October is indicted on three counts in relation to the attack. The Williams County Grand Jury met and returned indictments against Damion Tingley…now facing three counts of felonious assault, each a second-degree felony. Prosecutors say the incidents happened on Oct. …

Ohio State Highway Patrol Trooper Tyler Blankemeyer has been selected as the 2022 Trooper of the Year for the Defiance Post. Fellow officers assigned to the Defiance Post and dispatchers assigned to the Van Wert Post, chose Trooper Blankemeyer based upon leadership abilities, professional ethics, courteous treatment of others, enthusiastic …

A crash on U.S. 24 near Interstate 469 left two people dead and another in critical condition. Police responded to the accident involving an SUV and a semitruck. An investigation showed the SUV was traveling eastbound on 24 and was slowed in traffic. Officials say the two occupants in the …

Ohio’s elections chief on championed a lame duck push to require a supermajority of voters in order to pass certain constitutional amendments, a move that came the same day further voter restrictions were added to a significant rewrite of Ohio’s election laws. Secretary of State Frank LaRose said requiring a …