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A new report issued by the Ohio High­way Patrol, says dri­vers who don’t leave enough space between vehi­cles cause far too many crashes. Tail­gat­ing, or fail­ing to main­tain an assured clear dis­tance ahead was the most fre­quent cause of crashes over­all in Ohio in 2014, account­ing for 67,886 crashes on …

A Water­loo store sus­tained between $25,000 and $50,000 worth of dam­age on Wednes­day night when a pickup truck drove into the front of the build­ing. 72-year-old Robert Sanders of Defi­ance was pulling into the park­ing lot of the “Party Store” on Union Street off of U.S. 6 at about 9:45pm …

Michi­gan and Ohio have joined Indi­ana in ban­ning all live bird exhi­bi­tions in an attempt to help pre­vent the spread of the so-called bird flu. The Ohio ban affects all county and inde­pen­dent fairs includ­ing the Ohio State Fair. Also affected will be bird gath­er­ings for show or sale. Michi­gan …

The Williams County Sheriff’s Office says a man led police on a three county chase on Tues­day night after police tried to serve him a war­rant out of Pauld­ing County at Moore Park in Bryan. 30-year-old Dustin Dobbe­laere of Oak­wood, Ohio took off from deputies and Bryan City Police offi­cers …

Pet­tisville Meats is recall­ing approx­i­mately 1,700 pounds of Oven Ready Rossman’s Ham Loaf due to what they call an unde­clared aller­gen. The ham loaf prod­uct con­tains eggs, which is not declared on the prod­uct label accord­ing to the Ohio Depart­ment of Agri­cul­ture. The Oven Ready Rossman’s Ham Loaf prod­uct was …

An Arch­bold teenager on Wednes­day, admit­ted in court, that he and oth­ers col­lected and shared pho­tos of naked girls. The boy, whose name has not been released due to his age, was charged with dis­sem­i­nat­ing mat­ter harm­ful to juve­niles, and was sen­tenced to serve six months of pro­ba­tion. If he …

Trine Uni­ver­sity announced on Wednes­day that the num­ber of stu­dents tak­ing sum­mer courses increased by 66 per­cent on Trine’s main cam­pus this year. Accord­ing to a uni­ver­sity press release, 546 stu­dents are tak­ing sum­mer classes on the main cam­pus this year com­pared to 329 in 2014. In addi­tion, more stu­dents …

Accord­ing to the March edi­tion of Site Selec­tion Mag­a­zine, the city of Angola is one of America’s Top 100 Microp­oli­tan Cities for the year 2014. Angola Mayor Dick Hick­man read a let­ter from the Lt. Gov­er­nor dur­ing last nights City Coun­cil meet­ing, when he said that the city has moved …

A Crid­er­sville man is accused of rap­ing a child in Bryan. 27 year old Justin Phipps appeared for a pre­lim­i­nary hear­ing Tues­day in Bryan Munic­i­pal Court, where it was found that there was prob­a­ble cause that Phipps com­mit­ted the crime. The case has now been bound over to the Williams …

In West Unity on Fri­day, it’s the begin­ning of the annual Gath­er­ing in Unity Days, run­ning Fri­day and Sat­ur­day, and fea­tur­ing antique trac­tors, trac­tor pulls, a parade, along with crafts, food and ven­dors. It’s all hap­pen­ing at Memo­r­ial Park, and is spon­sored by the West Unity Area Cham­ber of Com­merce, …