News Staff Banning marijuana growing at home, increasing the substance’s tax rate and altering how those taxes get distributed…are among vast changes Ohio Senate Republicans propose…to a marijuana legalization measure, approved by voters last month. The changes emerged suddenly in committee just days before the new law is set to take effect, though their fate in the … Read more
The Bryan City Council, following an executive session, chooses a long-time educator to fill the Ward 4 seat, beginning next year. Steven Alspaugh has been at Bryan High School since 2005, and has been principal since 2008. The seat is currently occupied…since 2016. The Williams County Board of Elections determined this year there wasn’t enough … Read more
More than $10 million dollars is being invested in traffic safety for Van Wert County drivers, Governor, DeWine announces. Three improvement projects in the county are lined up to be constructed by 2029. A total of $73.8 million dollars would go toward traffic safety throughout the state…in partnership with the Ohio Department of Transportation. An … Read more
Ohio’s former top utility regulator pleads not guilty to charges…in connection with a $60 million dollar bribery scheme…related to a legislative bailout for two Ohio nuclear power plants that has already resulted in a 20-year prison sentence for a former state House speaker. Sam Randazzo, former chair of the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio, faces … Read more
A Rossburg teen dies in a two-vehicle accident in Paulding County. The Ohio State Highway Patrol says Hayden Smith, 16, was southbound on County Road 87…failing to stop for a stop sign…at the intersection with Ohio 114. His vehicle traveled into the intersection, hitting the trailer of a westbound semi…driven by Gary Ballenger, 54, of … Read more
The Defiance County commissioners discussed erosion concerns with the Tiffin River bank. They met with Kevin Hancock from Defiance County Soil and Water over the issue. Hancock says a driveway on a property in the area…will be shifted, in order to keep vehicles farther back from the bank of the river, which has moved dangerously … Read more
An Auburn man is arrested on multiple child molestation charges. Craig Cobbs, 54, was picked up by officers in the 1100 block of C.R. 34. They got a cyber tip…from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Cobbs is taken to the DeKalb County Jail for Child molestation and more. The DeKalb County Sheriff’s … Read more
No injuries are reported…after a train hits a semi that became stuck on railroad tracks along the Ohio border.. Allen County officials say…after the driver got out of the big rig, the train struck and split the trailer hauled by the semi in half. Nothing was inside the trailer at the time. The roadway is … Read more
Trine University officials confirm…there was a bomb threat on campus…causing students and faculty to evacuate from two buildings. Local first responders investigated and determined there was no danger. The bomb threat reportedly targeted Fawick Hall and the Jim and Joan Bock Center for Innovation and Biomedical Engineering. The university issues the all-clear shortly after an … Read more
Ohio Secretary of State, Frank LaRose consulted with three prominent anti-abortion groups while drafting the contested ballot language…used to describe Issue 1, an abortion-rights measure, overwhelmingly approved by voters earlier this month. The Republican elections chief and 2024 U.S. Senate candidate revealed having help with the wording while speaking at a Nov. 17 candidate forum. … Read more