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The Ohio Asso­ci­a­tion of Food­banks has been awarded a fed­eral Nav­i­ga­tor grant by the Cen­ters for Medicare and Med­ic­aid Ser­vices, mark­ing the third con­sec­u­tive year the grant has been awarded to the CMS. The $2 mil­lion grant will allow them to pro­vide Nav­i­ga­tor ser­vices through­out Ohio, edu­cat­ing con­sumers about afford­able …

Bids will be opened this week in Defi­ance for a side­walk repair pro­gram. 32 sec­tions of side­walk in the city will be repaired at an esti­mated cost of right around $26,000. It’s already been bud­geted for, with the city set­ting aside $30,000 for the work in the 2015 cap­i­tal improve­ments …

Kenosha Beef Inter­na­tional is recall­ing about 89,000 pounds of pork sausage patty prod­ucts that may be con­t­a­m­i­nated with pieces of metal. Indi­ana, Michi­gan and Ohio are among the states the prod­ucts were shipped to. Those recalled prod­ucts are 24 ounce car­tons of “John­sonville Grillers CHEDDAR CHEESE & BACON FLAVOR.” and …

Heav­ier traf­fic dur­ing the Labor Day hol­i­day results in a greater risk of traf­fic crashes. To keep Ohio road­ways safe, the Ohio State High­way Patrol says they will be out in full force this week­end look­ing for dan­ger­ous dri­vers and motorists in need. Motorists can assist in the effort by …

The Steuben County Sheriff’s Office is look­ing for a man who they say is a non-compliant reg­is­tered sex offender. An arrest war­rant was issued on Thurs­day charg­ing 33-year-old Ronald Giles with felony fail­ure to reg­is­ter as a sex or vio­lent offender. The war­rant was issued after a their inves­ti­ga­tion into …

The Williams County Sheriff’s Office received approval on Thurs­day from the county com­mis­sion­ers to begin train­ing a new K-9 team. The Times reports that the com­mis­sion­ers autho­rized $6,000 to be spent before Octo­ber 1st, to include train­ing for both a new dog and a new han­dler. It all came about …

In Pio­neer, a rou­tine traf­fic stop, more like a cour­tesy actu­ally, lead to the arrest of a woman who was on the run for more than ten years. It was just after 6 yes­ter­day morn­ing, when offi­cers pulled over a vehi­cle for a bro­ken head­light. As is the case in …

A Lib­erty Cen­ter man has been arrested in con­nec­tion with a shoot­ing in Henry County Wednes­day evening. 22 year old Cullen Par­sons is charged with felo­nious assault with a motor vehi­cle and firearm spec­i­fi­ca­tions… that’s a second-degree felony. He was taken to the Cor­rec­tions Cen­ter of North­west Ohio, and inves­ti­ga­tors …

Although no details have yet been released pub­licly, we have infor­ma­tion today that indi­cates that The Fed­eral Bureau of Alco­hol, Tobacco and Firearms has an active inves­ti­ga­tion under­way in Bryan. The Bryan Times reports that an ATF spokesper­son con­firmed it on Wednes­day morn­ing, and it involves a Bryan res­i­dent. Bryan …

The num­bers are out, and they show that more than 1,550 free lunches were served this sum­mer at a free lunch pro­gram for school-aged chil­dren in Mont­pe­lier. More good news too… the Mont­pe­lier pro­gram is funded entirely through local dona­tions. The pro­gram, accord­ing to the Bryan Times, began in 2009 …