News Staff A list of upcoming city street projects and a grant for inclusive playground equipment at Lincoln Park topped Bryan City Council’s agenda at its regular meeting this week. Officials told council the city is pursuing a grant agreement with the Ohio Department of Natural Resources to help pay for the equipment. The $200,000 state grant … Read more
A resolution passed by the North Central Board of Education offers no further insight into why the board felt it necessary to reprimand Eric Smeltzer, district treasurer and varsity coach. The school board had an executive session last week resulting in the decision. The board voted 4-1 to give Smeltzer a written reprimand and a … Read more
New scholarships, funded through the Choose Ohio First program will boost Ohio’s efforts to strengthen the state’s workforce in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics. The scholarship will support an estimated 3,400 students pursuing STEM degrees and certificates. The new funding marks the fourth round of grants for the Choose Ohio First program … Read more
An extension ladder is to blame for a crash involving a large truck that shut down a stretch of I 69 in DeKalb County. State troopers responded to the rollover accident blocking northbound traffic on I-69 near the 326 mile marker, just north of the County Road 11A exit, in DeKalb County. Officers found a … Read more
Two people are badly hurt in an Amboy Township, at the intersection of State Route 64 and County Road T. Officials say Patricia Schudel, 74, of Metamora, was driving west on County Road T and failed to stop at a stop sign. Her vehicle hit an oncoming pickup truck, driven by William Bostelman, 49, of … Read more
An Ohio man…who federal officials say is a member of the far-right anti-government group the “boogaloo boys” pleads not guilty to charges that he threatened law enforcement and unlawfully possessed a machine gun. Aron McKillips, 29, of Sandusky, entered his plea during a court hearing in Toledo. The charges he faces were included in an … Read more
Ohio’s attorney general has asked the Ohio Supreme Court to weigh in on the future of the state’s near-ban on abortions, despite arguing less than six months ago that the same court lacked jurisdiction to determine the paused law’s constitutionality. Attorney General, Dave Yost appealed for the high court’s intervention. The filing came after Hamilton … Read more
In Fremont…a mother and three children have die in a house fire, early Saturday. Crews were dispatched to East Toledo Street. Flames and smoke engulfed the place as the fire teams deployed at the scene. All four victims were taken to Cameron Hospital in Angola…the three children were pronounced dead at the hospital. The mother … Read more
The Ohio State Highway Patrol is investigating a two-vehicle crash Friday in Washington Township at the intersection of Mulligan’s Bluff Road and state Route 15. Officials say…22-year-old Nicholas Jacob was northbound on Mulligan’s Bluff Road. They say Jacob failed to stop at the state Route 15 interchange. That’s when 38-year-old Joshua West hit Jacob in … Read more
A conservative state lawmaker who lost to a fellow Republican in last week’s vote to determine who will lead the Ohio House as speaker says he has the support of most of the members of his party in the chamber. The fractures among Republicans raise questions about how the House and its GOP supermajority will … Read more