The City of Findlay has asked drivers to avoid the intersection of Greendale and Sutton Place today.  The intersection will be closed from 8am to 5pm due to sewer installation.

Hancock County’s new engineer’s garage will come in about $184,000 under budget….  A total of $3.1 million was budgeted for the garage, including a $275,000 contingency fund.  The garage is located at 1900 Lima Avenue.  A public open house will be held April 1.

A female college student in Tiffin reported to police that she was raped by a male student at a dorm early Thursday morning.  Police say the alleged rape occurred around 12:45 a.m. at a dorm on Clay Street.  The students knew one another and police say they were drinking before the incident.  Both students are under the age of 21.  The female also reported the rape to the university officials.  The case is under investigation.

Tiffin City Council approved an additional $151,000 to the 2015 Capital Improvement Fund.  The additional funding brings the total road paving budget to a record $451,000.  Mayor Aaron Montz said that roads in every part of Tiffin will be repaved with a focus on Jefferson and Main Streets.  The repaving project is separate from two other major road reconstruction projects on Miami and North Sandusky Streets.

Fifty-six year old Gary A. Martin of Rawson has changed his guilty plea in multiple rape charges involving a girl who was 11 at the time.  Martin was scheduled to be sentenced in Hancock County Common Pleas Court yesterday.  The sentencing has now been delayed due to the defendant requesting a third psychiatric evaluation.  Martin was found competent during two previous evaluations.

The widow of Toledo Mayor D. Michael Collins says she will consider running for election to complete the remaining two years of his term.  Collins died after suffering cardiac arrest last month.  Collins was an independent.  His wife, Sandy Drabik, is a Republican with a law degree who held leadership roles at the Ohio Department of Administrative Services and the University of Toledo.

Incoming Ohio State University students will be required to be up to date on their vaccinations.  Students who do not provide verification will not be allow to schedule classes next fall.  The move is in response to a mumps outbreak on and around campus last year that sickened almost 500 people.

Ohio prison officials want to give judges the authority to release inmates who are brain-dead or suffering from severe dementia.  The officials say the move would save taxpayers money.  Ohio prisons chief Gary Mohr asked state legislators on Thursday to tweak state law as he testified about his agency’s 2016-17 budget before a House subcommittee.  The state is paying about $1 million every two years for medical care just for 58 severely ill inmates serving mandatory sentences, many of whom don’t even know they are in prison.