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Bryan City Schools fill in the last few empty positions during the school board meeting this week. The board approved hiring nine classified staff members, including one English as a second language support paraprofessional, one occupational therapist position and seven aides for the elementary school. Members also approved hiring two …

The Williams County commissioners approve a resolution to proceed with placing an additional levy on the November ballot for the Williams County Health Department. If passes it will be 0.29 mills for 10 years and will be used for operations. It amounts to $10 dollars of tax per year for …

Older absentee ballot request forms are still acceptable for the Aug. 8 special election, as long as the proper ID is submitted. The Williams County Board of Elections says there has been some confusion on whether these forms would be accepted. House Bill 458, passed earlier this year, eliminated some …

Ohio Secretary of State, Frank LaRose launches a bid for the U.S. Senate on Monday, describing himself as a “battle-tested” conservative who represents the Republican Party’s best chance to unseat third-term Democrat Sherrod Brown next year and win back the closely divided chamber. In his second term as Ohio’s election’s …

A six-year-old girl dies while swimming at Bixler Lake in Kendallville. According to the Indiana Department of Natural Resources, she was last seen in shallow water before relatives found her unresponsive sometime later. Family members and first responders attempted life-saving efforts, but she was pronounced dead at the scene. The …

State Rep. Bob Young is arrested and charged with domestic violence, accused of assaulting a family member. Officials say…Young struck the person in the face and then threw her phone into a pool to prevent her from calling 911. Young, who appeared in court…is now subject to several protection orders, …

The Supreme Court leaves in place…a decision that allows more than 230 men to sue Ohio State University over decades-old sexual abuse by a university doctor, the late Richard Strauss. Two cases involving the abuse were on a list of many cases the court said it would not hear. Ohio …

Officers in Hicksville are looking for a driver who fired shots at a pedestrian Thursday night…near the intersection of Elm and East Cornelia streets. The shots were fired from inside a pickup truck, toward an individual standing in the area. No injuries were reported. The shooter is described as a …

Lobbyist, Matt Borges appeals his 5-year sentence…in the $60 million dollar bribery scheme that also took down former Ohio House Speaker, Larry Householder. Borges, 51, a former chair of the Ohio Republican Party, was convicted in March of racketeering alongside Householder. Officials say…the scheme involved secret payments to Akron-based utility …

Lt. Gov. Jon Husted has made protecting Ohio’s youth from social media a priority, and the state legislature followed suit. As part of the recently-passed state budget bill, the legislature included the Social Media Notification Act, which requires social media companies like Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and TikTok to require parental …