News Staff Activity across the Ohio housing marketplace rose in March, as sales increased 3.1% from the level reached during the same month a year ago…that’s according to the group, Ohio REALTORS. Around the state, 13 of the 16 markets tracked experienced an increase in average price for the month compared to March 2020. Sales in first … Read more
Elections will be held in August and November to fill an upcoming congressional vacancy in Ohio. Gov. DeWine says a partisan primary in the special election to fill the 15th Congressional District seat…now held by Rep. Steve Stivers…will be held Aug. 3, with the general election on Nov. 2. Stivers, a Republican, last week announced … Read more
Clarence Thigpen…the Michigan man…accused of stabbing Ney-area resident…the shot by a deputy…pleads guilty to two counts of felonious assault in a Defiance County courtroom. Prosecutors say Thigpen attacked someone on May 17th , at a Ney-Williams Center Road location, with a hunting knife. The victim was hospitalized for a time…he will recover. The police fired … Read more
Vaccine rates have slowed locally so the Williams County Health Department is trying a new tactic to increase those numbers. Officials have approached several of the larger workplaces in the county to set up vaccine clinics, there. So far, over 98 hundred county residents, over the age of 18 have received either the one-dose Johnson … Read more
A man on an ATV dies from his injuries after it rolled over on him while on his property on Christy Road in Defiance, on Saturday. Deputies responded to a hospital call, informing them Michael Lucas, 58, had been involved in the accident behind the property on Christy Road. Lucas was pronounced dead at the … Read more
A $75 billion dollar state budget…containing a 2% personal income tax cut and an overhaul of the state’s system for funding schools clears the Ohio House. The massive blueprint lays out spending for state programs for the two years, beginning July 1. It must next clear the Ohio Senate, where hearings have already begun. The … Read more
A GOP-backed bill, introduced this week, would change the name of an Ohio state park to honor former President, Donald Trump. The bill, primarily sponsored by freshman state Rep. Mike Loychik, to rename Mosquito Lake State Park to Donald J. Trump State Park…is the latest attempt by Ohio Republicans to honor the former president.
State or local governments in Indiana will be prohibited from issuing or requiring COVID-19 vaccine passports, under a bill approved by state lawmakers. The Republican-dominated House and Senate voted by wide margins to approve a wide-ranging health care and insurance bill that included the vaccine passport ban. The ones in use or development in other … Read more
Health officials confirm…Williams County has jumped up to the second highest case rate in the state, with 125 new patients reported among the county’s 36 thousand residents. That’s a rate of 340 people, per 100,000. The number comes from the April 6th to 19th timeframe. The county is now behind only Lucas County for case … Read more
A Montpelier man…accused of raping a 12-year-old girl is indicted by a Williams County grand jury. Prosecutors say Austin Schudel committed the crime, in September. Schudel is a registered sex offender…found guilty in 2018 of sexual imposition…after Montpelier Police said he had sexual contact with a 15-year-old girl.