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Lawmen support court's decision on GPS devices

A recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling requiring law enforcement to get a search warrant before placing tracking devices on vehicles is unlikely to have a local impact, officials say.
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Findlay area home damaged by fire

A residential fire on the eastern end of Findlay totaled about $260,000 in damage Thursday, authorities reported.
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Superintendent to visit China

ARCADIA -- The Arcadia School superintendent is headed to China this June as part of a cultural exchange program to visit schools there.
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Area trade union staging protest

Dissatisfaction over wages paid by a subcontractor has led a Rossford-based trade union to stage a protest this week in downtown Findlay.
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Girls Basketball: L-B rallies past Arcadia

It's been a rough couple weeks for the Liberty-Benton girls basketball team.
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College Basketball: Tiffin stuns Findlay

TIFFIN -- Losing always hurts, but here inside the Gillmor Center Thursday night, the University of Findlay men's basketball team suffered one of the toughest losses in school history.
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Girls Basketball: New Riegel claims MAL crown

OLD FORT -- New Riegel clinched at least a share of the Midland Athletic League girls basketball title by rolling over Old Fort 46-21 on Thursday night.
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Girls Basketball: Hunter helps Arlington bomb Pandora-Gilboa

ARLINGTON -- Pandora-Gilboa was content to camp in the paint with a 2-3 zone and Jessica Hunter made the Rockets pay Thursday as she set a single-game school record with seven 3-pointers in Arlington's 50-31 Blanchard Valley Conference victory over P-G.
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UP: New Findlay City Council members Jerry Murray and Anne Spence are proving to be welcome assets. Both have taken the initiative to ask questions during council meetings on everything from legislation up for a vote to ongoing city projects. They've also inserted their opinions about this and that. This past Tuesday, when a couple appealed to council for help with flooding issues on their property, Murray asked that the engineer's office and Service-Safety Director Paul Schmelzer report back to council soon to give a report on the situation. The questions and comments have helped prod others to join in discussion. Imagine that!

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Soybean planting comes full circle

Soybeans have been grown on more acres in our region than any other crops for more than a decade.

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Wildlife diversity conference set for March 7

Overlooked wildlife will be the focus of the 2012 Ohio Wildlife Diversity Conference, scheduled for Wednesday, March 7, at the Aladdin Shrine Center in Columbus.

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Nicole R. Peters was sentenced Jan. 30 to 23 years in prison for charges including conspiracy to commit the March murder of Vera Jo Reigle.

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    Historic demolition

    The old Seneca County Courthouse in downtown Tiffin was razed this week. B&B Wrecking and Excavating of Cleveland began demolishing the tower in early January drawing a crowd of onlookers almost daily. The 1884 courthouse had been closed since 2004.
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    Liberty-Benton's Alyssa Gary signed a national letter of intent Feb. 1 to join the track and field team at Ohio State University.

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