Ohio State football coach Ryan Day will receive a three-year contract extension that will keep him on the sidelines as head coach at least through the 2026 football season.

The extension is pending approval by the Ohio State University Board of Trustees.

A committee of the board is expected to approve the contract extension on Wednesday with a vote on the full board agenda Thursday, according to the university.

Day will make $5.3 million over the next year, plus receive another million for his retirement plan.

His salary will increase roughly a million dollars over each of the next two years, to $7.6 million by 2022.

In Day’s first year as head coach last season, the Buckeyes posted a 13-1 record, beating Michigan and winning the Big Ten title before losing to Clemson in the playoff.

UPDATE- The alert has been changed to a Winter Weather Advisory. Get more here.

Some counties in northwest Ohio have been placed under a Winter Storm Watch and even counties not under the watch are expected to get accumulating snow.

Hancock County is not under the watch, but neighboring counties Putnam, Wood and Henry are.

Forecasters say heavy snow is possible on Wednesday in the warned counties and several inches of accumulation are possible.

Forecasters say travel is likely to be greatly hampered by late Wednesday in the warned counties as snowfall increases and winds become gusty, causing blowing and drifting snow.

Hancock County is forecast to receive 2 to 4 inches of heavy, wet snow on Wednesday and then possibly another 1 to 2 inches Wednesday night.

The Fostoria Police Division says the death of a man found inside a house on Friday has been determined to be a homicide.

Police say the homicide determination included findings on the scene and the autopsy of the deceased which was performed by the Lucas County Coroner’s Office for the Seneca County coroner.

Police were dispatched to 707 Circle Drive at about 3 p.m. Friday, February 21st on the report of a naked woman throwing items onto the front yard of the residence.

Officers spoke with the agitated woman and learned that a man who lived at the residence was inside and unconscious.

The man, later identified as 66-year-old Larry Cole, was determined deceased by paramedics.

The woman was taken from the scene for evaluation and is currently being held at the Northwest Ohio Psychiatric Hospital in Toledo.

Police Chief Keith Loreno says no charges have been filed at this time and the investigation continues.

“As with any criminal investigation, it is critical that all of the facts and evidence are collected and processed for a competent product to be presented to the prosecutor,” the chief said.

A Findlay woman is turning her life around with the help of a new organization in Hancock County.

In fact, Megan says she wouldn’t even have a life to turn around if it wasn’t for Welcome To A New Life.

“I wouldn’t be alive…they saved my life.”

Welcome To A New Life goes into the Hancock County Jail and meets with inmates and offers them help in living a crime-free, drug-free life.

Megan says she got addicted to painkillers after having surgery, and then starting using street drugs.

Along the way she lost custody of her daughter and was facing some serious charges.

Megan says coming out of jail and rehab she had no hope of getting her life back together again, but that’s exactly what Welcome To A New Life gave her…hope.

She says they paired her with a mentor and helped her get a job and find a place to live.

Now, Megan says she’s coming up on two years clean, her daughter is back in her life, and she wants to give back to help people who are where she once was.

“If I can become part of this program and help people that’s all that I want, I want just one person to hear my story and think well, I can do that too.”

The group’s founders Puck Rowe and Stan Kujawa (pictured above) couldn’t be more proud of how far Megan has come.

They say they’re still looking for more mentors to work with people in the program.

Learn more about the program and how you can help out here.

Findlay City Schools recently had about 300 personnel go through a training session to get them better equipped to help a student who may be experiencing a mental health issue.

School counselor Stefan Adams says a lot of times it all starts with listening.

“We’re naturally fixers, and we want to jump right in and say how can I help, but a lot of times it’s about listening and hearing, and then deciding what to do with the information and where to go from there.”

Adams, a counselor at Glenwood Middle School, says the training session called Mental Health First Aid for youth educated school personnel on how to respond and assess the situation to get the student the proper help.

He says we need to completely remove any stigma surrounding mental health.

“As it continues to spike up, we need to equip teachers and personnel with how to handle these situations.”

A lot of drivers will be forced to take a detour as crews replace a bridge deck just south of Findlay.

The Ohio Department of Transportation says, beginning on March 16th, the U.S. 68 bridge over State Route 15 will close for approximately four months as the bridge deck is replaced.

ODOT says the ramps to State Route 15 east and U.S. 68 north/State Route 15 west will remain open.

State Route 15 traffic will be maintained under the bridge although periodic lane closures may be necessary.

U.S. 68 northbound traffic will be detoured onto State Route 15 eastbound, to state Route 37, to state Route 15 westbound, back to U.S. 68.

County Road 221/Main Street southbound will be detoured onto the ramp of U.S. 68 north/State Route 15 west, to Interstate 75 northbound, to state Route 12, to Interstate 75 southbound, back to U.S. 68.

(ONN) – Governor Mike DeWine has signed a bill aimed at protecting the hearing of Ohio motorcyclists.

The legislation allows motorcyclists to wear earplugs or earphones for hearing protection while on their bikes.

The House and Senate previously approved the bill and DeWine signed it into law Friday.

Sen. Rob McColley is a Republican from Napoleon.

He says noise from the wind and engines can produce severe hearing damage for motorcyclists.

Under the measure, motorcyclists are permitted to use earplugs or earphones for protection, not entertainment.

Officials say with this protection, motorcyclists will still be able to hear sirens and car horns.

A Findlay man was killed in a crash in Wyandot County.

The crash happened Saturday at about 11:56 p.m. on County Highway 5.

The Ohio State Highway Patrol says Michael L. Heuerman, 44, was driving east on Highway 5 when he went off the right side of the road and struck a tree.

His truck overturned and hit another tree before catching on fire.

Heuerman was pronounced dead at the scene by the Wyandot County coroner.

The patrol says Heuerman was not wearing a seat belt and alcohol is believed to be a factor in the crash.

If you saw some smoke in the sky between Findlay and Vanlue Saturday afternoon it was probably from a fire in a field fire off of Township Road 173.

Drivers passing by on State Route 15 could definitely see the smoke.

The Vanlue Fire Department and some property owners knocked down the fire.

No word on how it started.

The Hancock County Sheriff’s Office says some illegal drugs were confiscated from a vehicle in a shopping center parking lot thanks to a concerned citizen.

The sheriff’s office says at around 8:30 Saturday morning the Findlay Police Department requested a sheriff’s office K9 unit for a vehicle search in a parking lot at Tiffin Avenue and County Road 236.

Police had been called by a citizen concerned about a suspicious vehicle.

K9 Charlie made a positive alert on the vehicle, resulting in suspected heroin, methamphetamine and numerous items of drug paraphernalia being recovered, according to the sheriff’s office.