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Dozens of peo­ple were rounded up in north­west Ohio last week, includ­ing many in Williams, Defi­ance and Ful­ton coun­ties as yet another drug roundup was under­taken by area law enforce­ment offi­cials. Williams County Sher­iff Steve Towns told the media that the roundup was the result of six-month long under­cover inves­ti­ga­tion …

A Williams County employer has announced plans to expand oper­a­tions, pur­chase new equip­ment and cre­ate more jobs. 20/20 Cus­tom Molded Plas­tics of Hol­i­day City, will invest more than $21 mil­lion and add 53 new jobs at its man­u­fac­tur­ing facil­ity, in an expan­sion that will add 220,000 square feet. 20/20 Cus­tom …

Bryan Police say ear­lier this week, a woman who went into the Tri State Swap Shop on West High Street with two air con­di­tion­ers, was arrested after the employee there became sus­pi­cious and called them. Turns out, the air con­di­tion­ers had been stolen from Wal-Mart. 26 year old Sally Schang …

Some peo­ple who are con­cerned about the pro­posed Rover Pipeline project through north­west Ohio, are plan­ning a meet­ing for next week in Defi­ance. Accord­ing to the Cres­cent News, the ETRover com­mu­nity action meet­ing is sched­uled for Thurs­day, August 27th, from 6–8 p.m at ProMed­ica Defi­ance Regional Hos­pi­tal. Those orga­niz­ing the …

The Williams County Sheriff’s Depart­ment says K-9 Offi­cer Ham­mer passed away after a short bat­tle with can­cer on Tues­day. Ham­mer was 12 years old. K-9 Ham­mer was a Dutch Shep­herd. He started his career with the Sheriff’s Office in August of 2004 and was trained in patrol, nar­cotics detec­tion and …

A man died in a two vehi­cle crash Wednes­day morn­ing in Ful­ton County. 35 year old Michael Neuen­schwan­der of Fayette was pro­nounced dead at the scene of the crash that hap­pened just after 5 yes­ter­day morn­ing on U.S. 20 and County Road 23. Police say Neuen­schwan­der was east­bound on U.S. …

The Conexus Indi­ana North­east Regional Logis­tics Coun­cil has revealed it’s plan for infra­struc­ture invest­ment over the next 30 years. Among the high­way project pri­or­i­ties… redesign­ing the Toll Road inter­change with I-69 in Steuben County in order to improve traf­fic flow. They also say the widen­ing of U.S. 33 to four …

Cit­ing wor­ries over work­place safety, the Ohio Cham­ber of Com­merce on Wednes­day said that it will “strongly oppose” an effort to legal­ize mar­i­juana and will con­tribute $100,000 toward the effort to defeat it at the polls. The announce­ment comes after cham­ber mem­bers expressed their con­cerns about poten­tial acci­dents on the …

A tie vote by Defi­ance County’s board of elec­tions on the cer­ti­fi­ca­tion of a Hicksville may­oral can­di­date will now send the mat­ter on up to a higher author­ity. The board voted 2–2 in decid­ing whether David Schoo­ley should be cer­ti­fied as a Demo­c­ra­tic can­di­date in Novem­ber for the Hicksville mayor’s …

The Ohio Depart­ment of Health con­firmed on Wednes­day that the state’s first fatal West Nile virus human case took place in Williams County. A 91-year-old Williams County man, whose name has not been released, was hos­pi­tal­ized with encephali­tis. So far this year, there have been eight reported human cases of …