Huron County News

FREMONT -- There's a new picnic shelter at the Walter Avenue entrance to the North Coast Inland Trail in Fremont.

The Ashland County Board of Elections told county commissioners Thursday it cannot operate on the $302,510 appropriated for the department in 2010.

PLYMOUTH - A Plymouth man was charged with felony fleeing and eluding after he and two passengers ran from a vehicle that crashed after a high-speed pursuit Tuesday night.

Plymouth police are searching for three suspected heroin users after a pursuit Tuesday night that began in the village, reached speeds of 105 mph and ended with the car crashing into a Huron County soybean field.

Getting laid off can often be a life altering situation, but for one Huron county man it was just the beginning.

Amy Wuensch, left, and Shannon Dyer show off the sign at the new Shannon Michael Salon and Tanning Studio at 37 Ohio 60 about one mile south of New London.

BELLEVUE -- Local officials are working with state Rep. Terry Boose, R-Norwalk, to determine whether it is possible to have the city exist in only one county.

BELLEVUE - With the passage of the 4.9-mill bond issue, Bellevue City Schools students will experience the building of two new schools.

Imagine you operate a business in an industry that has been in the tanks for the past year, and no recovery appears on the horizon.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency , in partnership with the Ohio Department of Natural Resources , will host a flood risk information open house for Huron County on Tuesday, Nov.

Thousands of registered sex offenders would be subject to less-stringent reporting requirements if defense lawyers succeed in challenging parts of a 2007 state law intended to crack down on sexual criminals.

An election official is hoping to see a 50 percent turnout for Election Day. JoAnn Friar, director of the Ottawa County Board of Elections, said county voters have plenty of local issues and races as well as three statewide issues on the ballot.

WAKEMAN TWP. a ' Two Huron County women were flown from the scene of an accident Tuesday morning after a Honda Accord collided with a tractor-trailer. The accident happened shortly after 11:30 a.m. on U.S. Route 20 just west of Wakeman.

A Portage County medical worker is accused of taking nude pictures of patients. Jamie Aguirre was pulled over Sunday night on SR 43 at I-73. During the stop, officers found the 43-year-old to be in possession of a small amount of Marijuana and paraphernalia.

Bond was set at $250,000 Tuesday for a Huron County man accused of taking photos and video of patients undressing for ultra sounds and other procedures at a Tiffin medical center.

The Ohio Highway Patrol is investigating an accident that killed Dustin York, 20, of 142 U.S. 224, Willard, late Thursday.

Attorneys for two of the children kept in cages by Sharen and Michael Gravelle filed a lawsuit Monday against the adoptive parents who are now in prison.

Two of the 11 children kept in cages by their adoptive parents in northern Ohio have sued a Hamilton County agency that placed the two local children with adoptive parents, alleging the government should have known the parents had horrible histories of abuse and were unfit.

Two Ohio teenagers forced by their adoptive parents to sleep in cages have sued the couple and caseworkers who arranged the adoptions.

MILAN, Ohio - Deputies say they scrambled to clear people out of an Ohio sheriff's office when a man brought in a pipe bomb he said he'd found in a wildlife area.