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An aggra­vated mur­der trial gets under­way today in Pauld­ing. It involves a cold case, going all the way back to 1981. 59 year old Steven Noff­singer of Defi­ance, is charged with the mur­der of his ex-wife, Alma Noff­singer back in 1981. If con­victed, Noff­singer could get 20 years to life …

A shoot­ing in Wauseon on Sat­ur­day morn­ing leaves one man dead. Police have one sus­pect in cus­tody, and they are on the hunt for a sec­ond per­son. 27 year old Joshua McJil­ton of Ocean­side, Cal­i­for­nia but orig­i­nally was from Wauseon, was shot in a park­ing lot on Depot Street. McJil­ton …

A woman was arrested after she allegedly broke into two Mont­pe­lier homes on Fri­day. In the first inci­dent, the home­owner told police he came home to find a woman, who he said appeared to be under the influ­ence of drugs or alco­hol, inside his home. He said he tried to …

Good news on the jobs front for Williams County: its 5.1 per­cent unem­ploy­ment rate in March was the best in the four-county area, though all four coun­ties saw reduc­tions in job­less­ness. Williams’ rate is a full per­cent­age point lower than in March 2014, when it stood at 6.1 per­cent. Williams …

Williams County is about to be part of one of the largest cap­i­tal improve­ment pro­grams in a decade. The Ohio Turn­pike and Infra­struc­ture Com­mis­sion listed two projects in the county along the Ohio Turn­pike for con­struc­tion in the com­ing months. One project would repave almost six miles of road­way start­ing …

The Noble County Sheriff’s Office is ask­ing area cit­i­zens to be cau­tious around what appear to be aban­doned children’s back­packs. Inves­ti­ga­tors recently dis­cov­ered meth and meth pre­cur­sors in a Dora the Explorer back­pack found on a road­side. These items may give of a strong chem­i­cal smell when opened. If you …

Litch­field offi­cials got a sneak peek at the city’s pro­posed bud­get ear­lier this week. The 2015–2016 bud­get includes a two-percent pay raise for all city employ­ees to help off­set a six per­cent increase in health insur­ance costs. Res­i­dents and busi­nesses can expect a two-percent increase in water and sewer rates …

Ear­lier this week, DeKalb school offi­cials approved a plan that will put a Chrome­book in the hands of every stu­dent between grades 6 and 12. The school board ok’d the pro­posal to request bids for the pur­chase of over 1400 of the machines at about $215 per device, a sig­nif­i­cant …

A tragic acci­dent yes­ter­day after­noon in Wood County killed a dri­ver and sent the vehicle’s pas­sen­ger to the hos­pi­tal. 57-year-old Almeda Cou­ture of Toledo died when a tree fell on her SUV that was trav­el­ing south on Ton­to­gany Creek Road. The vehi­cle careened off the road­way, strik­ing a mail­box and …

Ear­lier this week, we told you about a pro­posal to change the Hill­dale city open-burning ordi­nance. The change was approved by the city coun­cil and bans all open burn­ing in the city between mid­night and 4am, mean­ing no camp­fires, open fire pits, or bon­fires. Open fires are also off-limits dur­ing …