News Staff FirstEnergy Corp. collected nearly $460 million from its customers to pay for modernizing its electric grid, but an outside audit…ordered by state regulators…could not determine how the money was spent…all this…according to the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio. The audit found FirstEnergy put the money into a general fund and did not track how it … Read more
A group…seeking to legalize marijuana possession and cultivation in Ohio…submits nearly 30,000 additional signatures to state officials…in an effort to put the issue in front of lawmakers this year. Earlier this month, it looked like the group might not get the nearly 133,000 signatures needed before the deadline…this…after the Ohio secretary of state said the … Read more
In DeKalb County…officials tell reporters…an Ohio man was speeding…and drinking…when he drove off State Road 8…crashing into a tree. The SUV is found…facing south…resting on the driver’s side of the vehicle. The driver, 25-year-old Austin Ziehr of Edgerton…is pinned inside the vehicle. Crash investigators think the SUV drifted off the south side of the road … Read more
GOP members of the Ohio congressional delegation on Friday…asked House and Senate leaders to fully fund a law…meant to address the global shortage of semiconductor chips, used in phones, cars and video games. The request comes as multiple media reports say Santa Clara, California-based Intel…intends to build a massive computer-chip factory, near Columbus. They are … Read more
GOP members of the Ohio congressional delegation on Friday…asked House and Senate leaders to fully fund a law…meant to address the global shortage of semiconductor chips, used in phones, cars and video games. The request comes as multiple media reports say Santa Clara, California-based Intel…intends to build a massive computer-chip factory, near Columbus. They are … Read more
Gov., DeWine says he has no regrets about his response to the coronavirus pandemic…even if Republican voters who thought he went too far are angry enough to vote him out in the upcoming May primary. DeWine is running for a second four-year term, which he has said will mark the end of his career in … Read more
The claims of juror bias by an Ohio death row inmate…who killed two girls in a robbery…can be further explored, a divided federal appeals court rules. At issue before the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is an appeal by Jeronique Cunningham, sentenced to die for the killing of two girls, ages 3 and 17, … Read more
Bryan crews take on two fires within minutes of each other. The first?…at the Woodland Estates Mobile Home Park on County Road 15.75. A dumpster is on fire. That blaze is quickly handled. Then…another call comes in. This time at a County Road H.50 location. Other fire teams from the area help out on that … Read more
The cops get a call…Thomas Wilson is driving through peoples’ front yards, near Curtis Street in Defiance. Soon…officers spot his car…behind the Main Stop on Curtis. Wilson takes off with the police in tow. Soon after…Wilson loses a tire. So he takes off on foot. Moments later…he’s in the cruiser…heading to jail. The Bryan man … Read more
Many citizens in Pioneer will again receive a $200 dollar rebate on their electric bill. Anyone who has been a Pioneer resident for at least a year, has at least a $30 average electric bill and is not delinquent on their bill or taxes…will get the rebate, officials say. People with more than one meter … Read more