5/9/18 – 7:15 A.M.

Republican Bob Latta fended off two challengers in the Republican Primary for his 5th Congressional District seat. Latta took 74 percent of the vote in a three-candidate race. He moves on to face Democrat Michael Galbraith in the November general election.

The two have very different ideas on healthcare. Latta has said he wants to repeal the Affordable Care Act. Galbraith supports Obamacare and says he wants to extend Medicare to everyone.

5/9/18 – 6:57 A.M.

Voters in the Ottawa-Glandorf school district voted in favor of a 1 percent income tax levy Tuesday. Around 1,200 people voted in favor, while 973 were against the tax measure.

The tax is in addition to a half-percent income tax the district already collects. The district expects the tax to produce $2.5 million a year.

OG officials cited the rising costs of all-day kindergarten, technology, and healthcare among the reasons they needed the levy to pass.

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5/9/18 – 6:48 A.M.

The only contested race in Putnam County saw John Schlumbohm win a county commissioner seat. Schlumbohm took more than 3,400 votes to Franklin Miller’s 828 in the Republican primary for a county commissioner seat. No Democrats filed to run for the post.

Schlumbohm will take the place of Commissioner John Love. Love decided not to run for reelection this year.

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5/9/18 – 5:22 A.M.

A woman found dead in a pond near Owens Community College in Findlay drowned. Hancock County Coroner Dr. Mark Fox submitted his findings Tuesday. Authorities found the woman in a car in the pond Monday.

Fox says he can’t confirm the woman’s identity yet. However, he adds he’s 90 percent sure it is Charlene Robinson. Robinson had been missing from Clyde since April 3. The license plate on the car matched that of a 1998 Ford Contour owned by Robinson.

Fox says the Lucas County Coroner will use dental records to try and confirm the woman’s identity for sure.

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5/9/18 – 5:14 A.M.

Robert Sprague is moving on to the general election in his run for State Treasurer. Sprague took 57 percent of the more than 406,000 votes cast in the race Tuesday. Sandra O’Brien took 42 percent of the vote. Sprague says his message of innovation resonated with voters…

Audio: Robert Sprague

Sprague will face Democrat Rob Richardson in the November general election. Richardson ran unopposed.

Ohio’s treasurer serves as the state’s chief financial officer and banker.

5/9/18 – 5:05 A.M.

Hancock County voters rejected a 1.2-mill property tax levy Tuesday. The Job and Family Services Levy would have generated about $2.3 million a year for 10 years to fund child and adult protective services. In a statement, JFS Director Diana Hoover said, “We are disappointed, but want to thank our supporters, volunteers, and contributors.” She added she respects the decision of the voters.

Hoover says she’ll talk with the Hancock County Commissioners to see if they should pursue a levy again in November.

Hoover says her budget for children’s services will run out by June. The agency needs an estimated extra $553,000 to cover expenses just this year. That’s according to the 2018 Children’s Protective Services budget.

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05/08/18 – 10:45 P.M.

Van Buren’s 8^th grade trip to Washington D.C. was nearly canceled after the company handling the trip went bankrupt. Discovery Tours filed for bankruptcy and canceled all of the tours they had scheduled. Superintendent Tim Myers said they managed to find a new company to help make the trip possible. He added that they helped figure out where the money from Discovery Tours went.

Tim Myers

Myers explained that the school board agreed to pay for the remaining $30,000 for the trip. The school islooking for help to ease that cost though.

Tim Myers

Myers said that they hope to raise the money but it is nice to know that it won’t stop the trip.

You can donate to the school by visiting their gofundme here.