Four more people indicted last week on drug charges, including one Fostoria woman, were arrested in connection to a series of year-long investigations throughout Seneca County.  Thirty two people were indicted by a Seneca County grand jury on June 3 on approximately 60 counts of drug related charges.  Seventeen were arrested last Friday following a coordinated operation carried out by seven area law enforcement agencies.  Eleven more suspects remain at large.

A state Senate panel is considering an online voter registration bill. The proposal would direct Secretary of State Jon Husted to create a secure, online registration process for voters. Applicants would need to provide an Ohio driver's license or state ID card number to register using the online system. Currently, Ohio voters can update their addresses online.

A gun was found in the car that Jeremy Linhart, the man shot during a struggle with a Findlay police officer after a traffic stop, was a passenger in.  Officials have not confirmed who the owner of the gun is and where it was found in the vehicle, but Linhart was legally barred from having firearms.  No charges have been filed against the officer who remains on paid leave from the force.

The Ohio Attorney General's Office announced that it will provide $3 million to Ohio colleges and universities to help strengthen their sexual assault victim advocacy programs.  The funding will also provide additional resources to the schools to help with the investigation of sexual assault.  The office will provide schools with “memorandums of understanding” to help develop agreements between police agencies, prosecutors, the school and groups which provide services to victims.  The office will also conduct training sessions for those who investigate sexual assault on campus this summer at various schools around the state.

The Fostoria St. Wendelin Festival kicks off its 42^nd version tomorrow at 6pm.  Rides, games, music and lots of food will continue until midnight and starts back up Saturday at 4pm and again on Sunday at 11:30am.  The grand prize drawing for $10,000 will be on Sunday at 7pm.  There is no admission, but funds raised will benefit St. Wendelin Catholic School.

Two teenagers who ran away from Wyandot County are now being tried as adults in Pennsylvania.  Triston Kindle of Upper Sandusky and Rose May of Sycamore, were located in West Virginia after their crime spree.  May is being charged with aggravated assault, robbery and criminal conspiracy, receiving stolen property and fleeing or attempting to elude a police officer, possession of a firearm by a minor and recklessly endangering another person and resisting arrest.  Kindle is being charged with aggravated assault and robbery, possession of a firearm by a minor and two counts of recklessly endangering another person.

The city of Marion is experiencing a heroin problem that has turned into an epidemic in the past twelve days.  Over thirty overdose victims have gone to the hospital and two died from a supercharged blue tinted batch from Chicago hit the streets.  City officials say if it hadn't been for naloxone, an antidote carried by paramedics, most of the survivors probably would have died, too.  They ranged in age from their late teens to early 60s.  Officials in Marion hope they've seen the worst of the latest heroin skirmish.   On Wednesday, 60 law enforcement officers raided three addresses in Marion, arrested four people and seized more than two pounds of the blue heroin that has plagued the city.