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Bargainers for a union representing workers at 38 Kroger stores in Ohio and two other states reached a tentative agreement with the grocery chain on a contract. The announcement comes a week after members of the United Food & Commercial Workers Union Local 400 rejected a previous contract offer and …

Norfolk Southern alone will be responsible for paying for the cleanup after last year’s fiery train derailment in eastern Ohio, a federal judge rules. The decision throws out the railroad’s claim that the companies that made chemicals that spilled and owned tank cars that ruptured should share the cost of …

The decision to blow open five tank cars and burn the toxic chemical inside them after a freight train derailed in Eastern Ohio last year wasn’t justified, the head of the National Transportation Safety Board tells Congress. But she said the key decision-makers who feared those tank cars were going …

A fractious, three-way Republican primary for the chance to unseat Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown this November is culminating in Ohio, where candidates are divided more over their pasts than their policy positions. Cleveland businessman Bernie Moreno, Secretary of State Frank LaRose and state Sen. Matt Dolan all favor some level …

The Bryan Board of Public Affairs approves a request for service to the police department, and learned the cause of a small outage. Bryan Police Capt. Jamie Mendez made the request for free service that would allow two new traffic cameras to be installed on city electric poles and draw …

Ohio University has paused the awarding of race-based diversity scholarships following the Supreme Court’s decision last summer to strike down affirmative action in college admissions. The university, one of Ohio’s largest, with about 20,000 undergraduates at its main campus in Athens, announced its plans in a statement recently by officials …

Ohio is ready to begin doling out millions of dollars in opioid settlement money to community and government organizations, an influx eagerly anticipated since the first sums were secured in 2021. The OneOhio Recovery Foundation is tasked with distributing over $860 million dollars in settlements reached with drug makers and …

The weekend suspension of a troubled congressional campaign in northwest Ohio has eased the minds of establishment Republicans hopeful they can flip a Democratic seat this fall by defeating the longest-serving woman in Congress. Erstwhile Republican candidate J.R. Majewski paused his campaign Saturday, just three days after he had insisted …

A chase through and around Angola Friday afternoon ended in the arrest of a Fremont man. In a press release from the Steuben County Sheriff’s Office, a deputy attempted to make a traffic stop on a motorcycle for failure to display a license plate, on Golden Lake Road in Pleasant …

The Williams County commissioners will be taking bids on an upcoming project to improve the pavement in a Bryan subdivision, for curb and asphalt pavement upgrades on Scott and Brown drives in the Norlick Place subdivision. Bids will be accepted until 10 a.m. on March 26. A mandatory pre-bid meeting …