Millbury teen hailed a hero for saving grandfather and neighbor days apart
NORTHWOOD, Ohio — A Millbury teenager is being hailed as a hero, twice, after saving both his grandfather and a neighbor in two separate emergencies just weeks apart. Two week's ago, 18-year-old Gavin Saltsman and his mom were taking his grandfather, Roger, to the hospital in Oregon with cold symptoms, when things...
Ottawa County seeks help in locating missing teen with Toledo ties
OTTAWA COUNTY, Ohio — A 16-year-old foster child in the custody of the Ottawa County Department of Job and Family Services is missing, according to a post on the department's social media pages. Natalie Lopez left her foster home in Youngstown around 7 p.m. on Saturday and never returned.
KKK flyers distributed in local neighborhood
Residents of a Vandalia neighborhood woke up Sunday to find flyers from the KKK distributed along the street.
DeWine’s proposed budget has less aid for most Wood, Lucas county schools
COLUMBUS — Gov. Mike DeWine’s proposed budget promises to simultaneously implement the final installment of Ohio’s new funding formula for traditional public schools while also expanding vouchers for private and religious schools. But more than half of school districts across Ohio — including most of those in Lucas...
Help Wanted: Report Bald Eagle nests to monitor Ohio’s population
COLUMBUS – The Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) Division of Wildlife is conducting a statewide bald eagle nest census in 2025 and is requesting the public’s help to locate active eagle nests. Observers may report bald eagle nest locations at wildohio.gov until Sunday, March 16. By reporting...
Ohio Army National Guard engineer brigade members deploy this weekend
COLUMBUS, Ohio — About 100 Ohio Army National Guard members deployed Sunday to the U.S. Central Command’s area of responsibility in support of Operation Spartan Shield. The public attended a call to duty ceremony Sunday afternoon to honor the members’ deployment at Dublin Coffman High School. Members...
Elderly couple loses $45,000 in a quick click from common sham – and now...
A RETIRED couple in Mentor, Ohio, have lost their life savings this week after falling victim to an elaborate online scam. The 73-year-old victim said he was browsing on his iPad when a pop-up alert appeared, warning him that his financial accounts were at risk. The popular scam tactic began...
One person dead after vehicle crashes into tree in Ohio
OHIO — A 27-year-old man was killed in a single-vehicle crash late Friday night on Blackbrook Road, according to the Lake County Sheriff’s Office. Deputies responded around 10:40 p.m. to the 500 block of Blackbrook Road, where they found a red Chevrolet pickup truck with heavy passenger-side damage against a tree....
Four persons in Ohio were charged with bringing drugs into the United States and...
OHIO — A federal grand jury in Columbus indicted four people on immigration-related charges this week, with some of the defendants previously convicted of drug trafficking, firearms offences, and human smuggling. Juan Carlos Garcia-Vasquez, 45, a Mexican national, was charged with illegally reentering the United...
300,000 Ohioans hope to see their share of $900 million in pandemic funds
Thousands of Ohioans are keeping a close eye on the courts for a resolution to a long-running legal battle. This month, a Franklin County judge ordered the state to pay nearly a billion dollars in federal pandemic unemployment benefits that Governor Mike DeWine cancelled in 2021. The state is appealing the ruling,...