During last week’s statewide tornado warning test, three of Fostoria’s sirens failed.  One did not rotate properly, a second had a battery issue and a third failed because its electronic controller is out for repair.  Some Seneca County sirens suffered the similar issues.  However, authorities said that this is why the tests are done to ensure that all sirens will be working properly in the case of an emergency.

Ohio’s largest online charter school spent at least $2.27 million of state education tax dollars last school year on advertising to attract students.  And that’s only part of the Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow’s or ECOT’s advertising budget, because other advertising is paid for by the school’s for-profit management company.  In all, ECOT spent about $155 per student.

Owners of the former Internet café named Talk-n-Win that has three locations, including one on Patriot Drive in Findlay, were indicted by a Defiance County grand jury for running an illegal gambling business.  Marvin, Robert and Nadia Dabish of Oregon were indicted on 41 counts, including one count of engaging in a pattern of corrupt activity.

CSX Transportation says it has finished off a $43 million expansion of its rail cargo hub in North Baltimore several years early.  CSX's hub that opened about four years ago connects freight moving between the Midwest and East Coast.  The expansion will allow CSX to more efficiently handle the longer trains that are coming into the yard.

The former home of first lady Betty Ford in Maumee has been destroyed in an early morning fire.  The home was once occupied by Ford and her first husband, William Warren.  Ford and Warren lived in the house in 1942 and 1943 while she modeled and sold merchandise at a department store.  The two divorced after five years, and she later married Gerald Ford.  Betty Ford died in 2011.

The Ohio Division of Wildlife says the number of Canada geese in the state have increased in recent years, and so have complaints about the birds.  Ohio’s Canada geese population is about 130,000.  That number has more than doubled in the past two decades and is expected to keep growing.  Residents and business owners say the large birds and their droppings wreak havoc on walkways, grass and landscaping.

According to AAA Ohio gas prices are down to start the work week.  The state average for a gallon of regular gas was $2.  That's down a dime from a week ago and $1.27 less than last year at this time.

An Ohio teacher accused of using a tiny spy camera to secretly record his kindergarten students using the bathroom is scheduled to appear in court.  Thirty-two-year-old Elliot Gornall is due to appear in Ashland County Court today following his Friday arrest.  Prosecutors say his personal computer contained dozens of videos of kindergarten students in a bathroom at an elementary school in Loudonville.  Gornall faces 25 felony charges.