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In honor of Vet­er­ans Day today, a trav­el­ing memo­r­ial is on dis­play at the Edger­ton high school gym today and through the rest of the week. The exhibit called “The Eyes of Free­dom: Lima Com­pany Memo­r­ial” hon­ors Lima’s 3rd Bat­tal­ion, 25th Marine Corps Reg­i­ment which suf­fered the high­est casu­alty rate …

Forty years ago today, The Edmund Fitzger­ald, the largest freighter on the Great Lakes, sank in hur­ri­cane force winds leav­ing Supe­rior, Wis­con­sin for Detroit. All 29 crew mem­bers died, and no one knows exactly why she went down. Six crew mem­bers were from Ohio.-0– A Williams County Wildlife Offi­cer has …

A story that shocked the Buck­eye state… the 21 month old tod­dler whose decom­posed body was found in her crib. Now a new trial date has been set for the baby’s father, who’s just been declared com­pe­tent to stand trial. 34 year old Eric War­fel had pleaded not guilty by …

If you know of some­one who’s made a dif­fer­ence, North­west State Com­mu­nity Col­lege Foun­da­tion is look­ing for them. They’re accept­ing nom­i­na­tions for next year’s Mak­ing A Dif­fer­ence Award, given to an indi­vid­ual, a busi­ness and orga­ni­za­tion. The cer­e­mony is in May. Nom­i­na­tion forms are online at NorthwestState.edu. They are due …

Gas prices are as low as 2.21 a gal­lon in Bryan this morn­ing. That’s down about a nickel from last week, and down about 60 cents from a year ago. Ana­lysts at Triple A say good sup­ply should keep gas prices low for the Thanks­giv­ing travel season.

A Toledo funeral home direc­tor has lost his license and pleaded no con­test to abuse of a corpse charges. Robert Tate was found guilty yes­ter­day in Lucas County Com­mon Pleas Court. Police raided the Tate Funeral Home in May, find­ing sev­eral bod­ies that were not embalmed and severely decom­posed. His …

In Pauld­ing County, there’s a new Drug Court, set up to help lower-level, non­vi­o­lent felony offend­ers with drug or alco­hol issues. The first court was in late Octo­ber, and its goal, said Judge Tiffany Beck­man, is for par­tic­i­pants to defeat their addic­tion and become con­tribut­ing mem­bers of soci­ety. The three …

The State of Ohio’s “pay for stay” pro­gram for jail inmates has col­lected more than a half a mil­lion dol­lars in the past five years. The Cor­rec­tions Cen­ter of North­west Ohio reported yes­ter­day that money goes back to the juris­dic­tions that use the pro­gram. Those inmates who are con­victed of …

An air­man with local ties in Bryan has been hon­ored as one of the top 40 young mem­bers of the USmil­i­tary by Civil­ian Jobs, an online mil­i­tary job site. 29 year old Seth Michael is a senior air­man in the Air Force. He’s sta­tioned in Florida as a reservist and …

A man from Penn­syl­va­nia was arrested for pos­ses­sion of heroin by Williams County deputies after he was found over­dosed in a room at the Qual­ity Inn in Hol­i­day City. 39 year old Joshua D. Dean of State Col­lege, Penn­syl­va­nia, was revived with Nar­can, and then he was arrested at about …