News Staff The Williams County Port Authority board is back to full strength, after two new members are sworn in. Dawn Fitzcharles, administrator of the Village of Edgerton, was sworn in at the board of county commissioners meeting July 22, and Tyson Stuckey, managing partner of Shultz Huber & Associates, was sworn in Monday. The two take … Read more
Utility giant FirstEnergy Corp. will reevaluate the company’s previous denial…that it used customer money to fund a $60 million bribery scheme…to win legislative approval of a $1 billion bailout for two unprofitable nuclear power plants in Ohio. The Akron-based company issued a notice to the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio on Friday…deferring a prosecution agreement … Read more
Ohio doesn’t plan to mandate masks in schools this fall, but health officials strongly recommend students and staff wear face coverings…if they aren’t vaccinated against COVID-19. Some of Ohio’s largest districts, including Columbus and Cleveland, already decided to require masks for everyone when the school year begins. Others are still navigating the complicated decision-making and … Read more
A semi crashes into a minivan, killing a woman and injuring 5 others, in Williams County. Officials tell reporters a Wyoming man was driving a minivan northbound on State Route 101…when he stopped at the stop sign at State Route 34. Officials say he then pulled forward from the stop sign and was struck by … Read more
Four years after a carnival ride’s corroded steel arm snapped and flung a high school student to his death at the Ohio State Fair, the state is tightening its oversight of amusement rides. Inspectors are conducting more mandatory checks for rust and metal fatigue and increasingly flagging rides for repairs…during the first year of enforcement, … Read more
A three-day celebration of what would have been John Glenn’s 100th birthday…begins in his birthplace and childhood hometown in Ohio, even as additional events were announced to mark the occasion. It all took place in Cambridge, where Glenn was born on July 18, 1921, and nearby New Concord, where he grew up and met his … Read more
A Fremont man loses part of his leg…after his motorcycle is sideswiped in a three vehicle crash, near County Road 125 East. Investigators say the rider, Cody Ormsbee, was trying to turn left onto 125 East from 120, when he is hit by Ericka Pillitiere. She later told deputies she never saw the motorcycle. Ormsbee … Read more
The energy giant at the center of a $60 million bribery scheme in Ohio admits to using dark money groups to fund the effort…and agrees to pay $230 million dollars and other conditions…so prosecutors won’t forge ahead with a criminal case against the company. Authorities charged Akron-based FirstEnergy Corp. with conspiracy to commit wire fraud…alleging … Read more
President, Biden was in Cincinnati…to push his economic policies. It’s the third visit of his presidency to Ohio, the only state he lost that he has visited multiple times. Ohio Republicans, for their part, see the presidential attention as a chance to make the case against Democrats. The state faces a heated Senate election next … Read more
Crews are dispatched to a structure fire on Kramer Road, south of Edgerton. As the fire team approaches…they see it isn’t a building in flames…it’s a tractor. The people there were able to get the burning hulk out of a barn before the flames did too much damage to the building. Firefighters move in and … Read more