News Staff Gov. DeWine announces the launch of a new grant program to help revitalize local communities through the demolition of blighted and vacant buildings. The new Ohio Building Demolition and Site Revitalization Program will provide nearly $150 million in grants…to raze dilapidated commercial and residential buildings and revitalize surrounding properties. The program is part of the … Read more
Governor, DeWine announces…the Ohio Department of Health, the Ohio National Guard, and the Ohio Hospital Association will expand coronavirus testing locations in nine cities, including several new locations, starting now. The additional testing locations will be mobilized with support from Ohio National Guard personnel. The locations, which are intended to divert testing traffic from hospital … Read more
Williams County deputies respond to a tip…there’s a fugitive at 210 Walnut St., in Pulaski. Officials say…Jason Dennis, 37, of Bryan, was wanted for failure to appear in Bryan Municipal Court for a parole violation hearing. The cops get there…Dennis sees them…he takes off running. A police dog tracks Dennis down. He surrenders and is … Read more
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission proposes a large fine against the builder of a pipeline that runs through a portion of Fulton County. The commission ordered Energy Transfer Partners…and its subsidiary, Rover Pipeline…to explain why it should not pay a $40 million dollar civil penalty for alleged violations of the Natural Gas Act…Commission regulations and…the … Read more
The Fulton County Health Department reports six new COVID deaths early this week. There were three in the 70-79 age range…one person in their 50s…one in their 60s…and one in the 80 or older age range. The county saw a sharp increase in new COVID cases early this week, with 208 reported on Monday and … Read more
Health officials say…no reported COVID omicron variant cases have been detected in the seven county region of northwest Ohio. So far…Williams, Defiance, Henry, Fulton, Putnam, Paulding and Van Wert, counties have avoided it. With that said…officials add…the overall number of COVID cases in Williams County remains high. 127 deaths have been attributed to COVID in … Read more
A 70-year-old woman dies in a crash that ended with the vehicle careening into a garage in Dekalb County. Officials tell reporters Marsha Edgar of Auburn was driving south in the 3800 block of CR 35 Tuesday around 3 pm when, for some reason, she went off the road. Her vehicle continued several hundred feet … Read more
Although it may be several years down the road, planning for significant changes to U.S. 24 in Defiance County is well underway. County engineers shared the latest on plans to build a new overpass on U.S. 24 at Independence Road during this week’s county commissioners’ meeting. Sounds good…but it is on hold until some federal … Read more
An annual pay raise has kicked-in for Ohio’s minimum-wage workers, who will now earn $9.30 per hour, about $2 more than the federal minimum wage. The raise is the largest since 2006, when a ballot initiative indexed the minimum wage to inflation. Ohio is among nine states where a 2022 minimum-wage increase is tied to … Read more
A mother and her two children are hurt after a semi slams into a car in northern DeKalb County…about two miles south of the Dekalb / Steuben county line. Officials tell reporters…the semi was northbound when the driver failed to see a car parked on the east shoulder. No word on why the semi hit … Read more