Bargainers for a union representing workers at 38 Kroger stores in Ohio and two other states reached a tentative agreement with the grocery chain on a contract. The announcement comes a week after members of the United Food & Commercial Workers Union Local 400 rejected a previous contract offer and voted to authorize a strike. … Read more
Norfolk Southern alone will be responsible for paying for the cleanup after last year’s fiery train derailment in eastern Ohio, a federal judge rules. The decision throws out the railroad’s claim that the companies that made chemicals that spilled and owned tank cars that ruptured should share the cost of the cleanup. An assortment of … Read more
The decision to blow open five tank cars and burn the toxic chemical inside them after a freight train derailed in Eastern Ohio last year…wasn’t justified, the head of the National Transportation Safety Board tells Congress. But she said the key decision-makers who feared those tank cars were going to explode three days after the … Read more
A fractious, three-way Republican primary for the chance to unseat Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown this November is culminating in Ohio, where candidates are divided more over their pasts than their policy positions. Cleveland businessman Bernie Moreno, Secretary of State Frank LaRose and state Sen. Matt Dolan all favor some level of federal abortion restriction, a … Read more
The Bryan Board of Public Affairs approves a request for service to the police department, and learned the cause of a small outage. Bryan Police Capt. Jamie Mendez made the request for free service that would allow two new traffic cameras to be installed on city electric poles and draw power from them to operate. … Read more
Ohio University has paused the awarding of race-based diversity scholarships following the Supreme Court’s decision last summer to strike down affirmative action in college admissions. The university…one of Ohio’s largest, with about 20,000 undergraduates at its main campus in Athens…announced its plans in a statement recently by officials….saying…the school temporarily pausing the awarding of impacted … Read more
Ohio is ready to begin doling out millions of dollars in opioid settlement money to community and government organizations, an influx eagerly anticipated since the first sums were secured in 2021. The OneOhio Recovery Foundation…tasked with distributing over $860 million dollars in settlements…reached with drugmakers and pharmaceutical companies for their roles in the national opioid … Read more
The weekend suspension of a troubled congressional campaign in northwest Ohio has eased the minds of establishment Republicans hopeful they can flip a Democratic seat this fall by defeating the longest-serving woman in Congress. Erstwhile Republican candidate J.R. Majewski paused his campaign Saturday, just three days after he had insisted he was staying in the … Read more
A chase through and around Angola Friday afternoon ended in the arrest of a Fremont man. In a press release from the Steuben County Sheriff’s Office…a deputy attempted to make a traffic stop on a motorcycle for failure to display a license plate, on Golden Lake Road in Pleasant Township. In the attempt to make … Read more
The Williams County commissioners will be taking bids on an upcoming project to improve the pavement in a Bryan subdivision…for curb and asphalt pavement upgrades on Scott and Brown drives in the Norlick Place subdivision. Bids will be accepted until 10 a.m. on March 26. A mandatory pre-bid meeting will be held at the offices … Read more